Take the Fatigue Out of Finding Love with a San Francisco Matchmaker
In 1967, the Summer of Love swept through San Francisco, filling the Bay Area air with hope.
During this legendary summer, nearly 100,000 people gathered at once in our Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. They spent the season cementing pop culture’s definition of “hippie,” and many did indeed meet their lifelong romantic partners.
The San Francisco Bay area has changed a lot in the 55+ years since that monumental time. But one thing has stayed the same: across the city, exceptional one-of-a-kind people are still looking for love every single day.
Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as spending your entire summer strolling through the Haight anymore.
In our modern and bustling world, successful singles don’t have much time for finding love. This is especially true of the upscale and intelligent C-suite business leaders who call SF home.
Single in San Francisco: A Blessing and a Curse
Sage wisdom has always told us that “you can’t hurry love.” It’ll find you when you least expect it. So long as you focus on being the best version of yourself you can be, people will be drawn to you…including your perfect romantic match.
Unfortunately, a recent news flash study found the odds of you coincidentally meeting your future spouse on any given day are 1 in 562.
To be clear, you’d have to strike up a conversation with 562 new people in a single day. And keep in mind that of those 562 people, only 18% of them will feel a mutual attraction. (1)
It’s true that in many ways, modern times have evolved such that “sage wisdom” just doesn’t apply anymore, but all is not lost. The city of San Francisco is full of intellectual, successful, and driven people like you who are also hoping to meet their perfect match.
You just have to know how to increase your odds of success near your Bay Area home or at the local park San Francisco.
How to Beat the Odds and Meet Your Match in SF
Yes, the chances of you meeting your match thanks to blind luck are rather slim. That’s why you have to be mindful and add real intention to your quest for love, especially after covid.
Fortunately, SF is perhaps the best place in the state to take the reins and be strategic about investing your time and energy.
Let’s start by getting something straight. Our beautiful city has so many unique and memorable experiences to offer; and these experiences could lay the foundation for a lifelong romantic relationship. Studies have found if you let family members set you up with a date, none of San Francisco’s amazing offerings will make a difference whether its sports, restaurants, parking lots, or travel clubs.
The truth is, dates set up by family members or old student campus buddies have just a 1% impact on that 1 in 562 figure. Your time and energy are better spent meeting people who aren’t chosen by your family.
You may be wondering if this translates to letting your friends set you up on a date. Your inner circle knows you on a deeper level, and you’ve likely mentioned pet peeves or ideal qualities in a potential match. These people may have even seen you through a past relationship or two.
It turns out that dates set up by friends do have a higher impact than those set up by your family. It isn’t much higher, though. This would have a 4% impact on the 1 in 562 figure and would result in you meeting approximately 2 more new people every month versus saying no to these dates.
So How Can Dating Be Successful in any San Francisco District?
Living in SF means those methods just aren’t a good use of your time. You already lead such a full life, and you’ve hand-picked every single task in your daily schedule. Shoehorning in a couple blind dates just because your friends think it’s “time for you to put yourself out there” won’t serve you in any way.
The most effective way to boost your chances of finding true love is by opening your social circles. Dating family friends or friends of friends doesn’t move the needle whatsoever in California.
If you start meeting friends of colleagues and your true intellectual peers, you’ll enjoy a 16% boost to those 1 in 562 odds according to Bay Area data.
Most powerful of all is working with a matchmaker.
When you start meeting people you never would have otherwise, you triple your chances of finding real and lasting love.
This isn’t speed dating, to be clear. A matchmaker gets to know the real you, what makes you tick, and matches you with someone who makes you feel alive again.
You Deserve to Finally Find Your Perfect Match
It's no secret that SF is home to sophisticated, successful, upscale, and attractive people. Even better, these people are excited to meet someone wonderful to share their lives with. As you’ve experienced, meeting and connecting with these people naturally can be quite difficult.
The perfect partner for you may very well be here in San Francisco, working as a CEO, top physician, or scientist. But you’re never going to meet them by chance at the grocery store or the bar.
Shannon’s Circle is a matchmaking service like no other.
Shannon’s 20+ year career as a senior executive in the corporate world combined with her entrepreneur experience results in an exclusive network of intellectual, driven singles.
If you too are an intellectually curious professional in San Francisco, a matchmaker may be just the thing your love life has been lacking.
Wasting time on blind date after blind date or spending night after night at singles’ functions does nothing to serve you.
Once you start working with Shannon, you can say goodbye to the constant frustration of finding love on your own. She approaches matchmaking with a strategic lens and focuses on being selective. You can count on her support as your trusted guide to finding love.
In San Francisco learn how to read the city’s offerings and find which program or location will help you find love.
From date coaching to mock dates, your journey with Shannon is completely bespoke.
Love comes in all kinds of packages, and everyone’s quest unfolds differently. Shannon’s mission is to help you explore the area, learning how to find love in all the right places.
When it comes to matchmaking in SF, Shannon is your secret weapon.
References:
1. Daily Mail, Love Really Is a Numbers Game
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4757816/Mathematicians-reveal-odds-finding-love.html