NY Times article about high-end matchmaking and, of course, height is an issue
Money quote:
>And there is his height. Pascaretta, who said he is 5-foot-6 (“5-7 on a good day”), knows it can be a deal breaker for some women — certainly on the dating apps. “That’s a big deal for some of these girls,” he said.
>A match he recently went on a few dates with mentioned, while they were at dinner, that she wanted to be with a tall guy — even though the team screens for women who are open to shorter men.
>“I’m like, You’re 5-foot-1! I’m tall compared to you,” he said. “It made me sensitive to it.”
>Pascaretta has dabbled in the apps casually, thanks to a few colleagues who set him up with profiles on Hinge, Bumble and The League, but he thinks they’re superficial. Strictly a numbers game. Matchmaking may sound like “voodoo” or “witchcraft” to some of his friends and family, he said, but he feels there is nothing like having a team of people who understand you out there searching for Mrs. Right for you, hyping you up.
>Pascaretta has lofty standards. When he signed his third renewal, he sent the Agape team a six-page Word document with details about his past girlfriends and a one-page self-profile. “I’m a rare blend of executive discipline and genuine warmth,” he wrote, mentioning his M.B.A. and pilot’s license. He also “cooks and cleans like Mrs. Doubtfire,” Pascaretta noted, “by choice, not necessity.”
>“Grounded in my Italian roots, I lead with heart, drive and zero ego,” he wrote. “I’m looking for my queen — someone to grow with, not just go with.”
>Pascaretta also sent the team an Excel spreadsheet cataloging his must-haves: an accomplished professional, ideally a doctor, lawyer or executive, “someone like me who has been ‘heads down’ career focus, but now is ready for a serious relationship.” Someone who has never been married or is at least amicably divorced. Someone shorter than him. And someone between the ages of 25 and 43. It also detailed his strong preference for a woman who is, among other things, “naturally pretty” and “stylish,” “loyal, classy, ambitious, elegant, feminine, emotionally stable,” from a “well-respected family” and who went to a top-tier school.
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