Asian Matchmaker in Chicago

AWM Love brings personal, discreet Asian matchmaking to Chicago’s accomplished singles — from the Loop and River North to the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, and out to the North Shore. Private, handcrafted introductions for traders, attorneys, physicians and executives who want something real and don’t want to find it on an app. My clients come from every background, and a meaningful share of my matches are cross-cultural.

My Tie To Chicago

My connection to Chicago runs through the work. I spent years at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, and anyone who has worked in that world knows how tightly New York and Chicago are wound together — the desks talk constantly, people move between the two cities their whole careers, and the derivatives world here is its own gravitational center. I know those people because I was one of them.

I have made many matches in Chicago - especially with my ties to professional organizations such as the National Association of Asian American Professionals and previous ties to the Family Office Exchange. I have worked with many executives at FOX and also did a podcast with FOX Ceo Peter Moustakerski and also a webinar for them.

Credentials

I’m a third-generation Chinese matchmaker (紅娘) and a former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan investment banker. I’ve been featured in Business Insider, NBC News Daily, and ABC News. I bring both the ancient wisdom of the 紅娘 tradition and a very modern understanding of the lives my clients actually lead.

Who I Work With In Chicago

It All Starts With Learning About You and….Who You’d Love to Meet.

My Chicago clients are traders and quants, attorneys at the big firms, physicians and academic clinicians, consultants, founders, and executives across finance and professional services. Many are Booth or Kellogg alumni. A good share are first- or second-generation, balancing demanding careers against family expectations that never quite go unspoken. They are direct, unpretentious, and tired of the app churn — Chicago people generally say what they mean, which makes them a pleasure to match.

Not all of my clients are Asian. A good share are people whose lives already cross cultures — who’ve worked in Asia, whose careers are international, or whose families already are — and who want a partner who moves comfortably in that world. The cultural fluency those matches take is something I pay close attention to.

Why Dating Here Is Harder Than It Should Be

The trading day and the billable hour own your calendar. Markets open early, deals close late, and the years compound. It is the same structural trap I saw constantly in banking: the work is genuinely urgent, and your personal life is the only thing with no deadline.

Your circle is your firm. Desk, practice group, service line, residency program. The people you know are the people you work with, and dating inside that is complicated for obvious reasons.

Chicago is a big city that dates like a small one. The professional world here is more connected than outsiders expect. Word travels through firms and alumni networks, which makes discretion matter more than people assume.

The winters make it easy to disappear. It’s simple to go quiet from November to March, and then again the following year. Momentum is genuinely hard to maintain here, and a lot of good intentions dissolve into another season indoors.