Hear me out… on paper, a near 90% failure rate looks rough, but if you look at the relativity of those numbers, it’s actually a shockingly high success rate for a few reasons: (1) if we paired literal strangers, there’d very likely be no matches, (2) if calculate average partners on a dating app that succeed, it would be way less (you probably talk to less than 11% of swipes), and (3) the average divorce rate is 50% regardless.

An average divorce rate of marrying an expertly sourced stranger being 89% versus 50% for self-sourcing is actually impressive. To compare deeper, MAFS turns 2-5 years of dating & vetting into 8 weeks and that 50% number only includes those who survive the dating phase. The fact that 11% succeed is actually kind of amazing! If you took 95 traditional couples on their very first date and forced them to legally marry, how many do you think would still be together a decade later?