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The Mary Poppins Guide to Husband Hunting
How Amy Webb Gamed Online Dating — and Won!
Writer and data cruncher Amy Webb was fed up with dating the many Mr. Wrongs that JDate and other dating apps kept matching her with.
“You’re not casting a wide enough net,” her friends and family insisted.
But after one particularly abysmal date, Webb concluded that the real reason dating sites were sending her so many liars and losers was that she wasn’t being picky enough.
The Dream Date, Quantified
So Webb sat down, drink in hand, and listed every single quality she wanted her future husband to have. The result of this brainstorming session was a collection of 72 items, from big things — he had to be smart, funny and debt-free — to subtler qualities like musical taste (yes to 1920s Jazz, no to the soundtrack from “Cats!”) And height (Five foot ten — six foot two.)
She also wanted to avoid certain annoying habits, which lead to criteria like: “No high-fiving allowed.”
Webb’s dream date couldn’t mock her for loving the music of George Michaels. Or be bad at Trivia. And he’d better loathe chain restaurants.
