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by The Love Brokers in PaLive Posted on 06/21/2019 12:00 AM

Love Brokers founder talks about matchmaking in the digital age – In The News
By Roger DuPuis – rdupuis@timesleader.com

Love Brokers founder Suzanne Dante

Suzanne Dante’s passion is helping other people find theirs.

After two decades in the matchmaking business, Dante says her work has led to hundreds of marriages.

Now, she’s putting that expertise to work as an entrepreneur, as the operator of her own company, Love Brokers, which opened on Third Avenue in Kingston about two months ago. She has brought many members over to the new company as well.

Dante spoke with the Times Leader about her experiences and about how she and her staff help clients find their special someone in the era of online dating.

Q: So tell me about you. How did you become a matchmaker?

A: I started with a local business that did strictly old-fashioned type matchmaking, I fell in love with it and did it for 20 years. Unfortunately, she retired and went out of business. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else, I love to help people. It took me a while, but my boyfriend and I put this place together.

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Must-Read Dating Advice From a Local Matchmaker – In The News
by Daisy Willis

Dating Advice

In a world where we swipe hastily through our options in search of instant gratification, Suzanne Dante of The Love Brokers urges us to slow down and get a little more human about dating. Located in the Wilkes-Barre area, Dante’s affordable matchmaking service brings vetted clients together to find The One. Looking for long-term love? This advice is for you.

App Angst
If you’re feeling overwhelmed and disheartened by the modern dating world, you’re not alone. Many of Dante’s clients come to her burned-out by Match mishaps and Tinder randos.

Like much in this ultra-connected world, online dating provides almost too many options. “Your brain can get addicted constantly looking through these photos,” Dante says.

This cheap glut of potential partners can have the effect of devaluing the individual. Interactions lose their weight, common decency crumbles and some are quick to drop one date and move on to the next.

“There is success,” Dante says, “but the majority who come to see me have been traumatized by lack of respect. Game playing, ghosting, inaccurate photos. One time, a gentleman couldn’t make the date and he sent his friend.”

It’s perfectly fair to feel a little fed up.