D.C. Power Players Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Find Dates

In D.C. dating, obstacles abound. Everybody is busy and nobody texts back, or they text and text but never plan a date, or they date once only to ghost. All the "moderates" are secretly conservative; a lot of the liberals are not-so-secretly annoying. The pandemic shut down the party scene, but swiping on the apps is such a drag - and isn't really an option for D.C.'s more high-profile singles. So perhaps it's not surprising that an old-timey way of finding love has made something of a comeback: D.C.'s single power players are enlisting matchmakers in their dating searches.