Tending the chair
The apps that feel like an unpaid second job. The situationship that ended without ever getting a name, so the grief doesn't get one either. Being the last single person in the group chat, performing fine at other people's weddings. The quiet fear, after enough endings, that the problem is you. It isn't a diagnosis and it isn't a phase; it is a weight, and it deserves a chair. Hearth is one Keeper (a trained peer companion, the same person every time) who remembers all of it: the names, the dates, the one from March.
If this sounds like you
No streaks. No optimisation. Just a Keeper, a chair, and however long the conversation needs to be.
A weekly or biweekly Sit (a 35–60 minute video or audio call) with the same Keeper, who remembers March, and June, and what you swore in August.
A Long Talk thread for the message you drafted four times, the profile you almost reactivated, the ache after the third date that went nowhere. A reply within 24 hours.
A Friday Reflection from your Keeper: what they noticed about your week, including the things dating apps never will.
If the heartbreak has tipped into depression, or an old pattern needs deeper work, your Keeper walks you to The Bridge (a vetted therapist matched by hand) by name.
What Hearth isn’t
Hearth is not a dating coach, not a matchmaking service, and not couples therapy. We will not optimise your profile, and we will never tell you who to choose. What we hold is the long middle: the almosts, the hope you are embarrassed by, the tiredness, and the question under all of it, which was never really about the apps.
We hand-match Keepers to members within 72 hours. This is the kind of Keeper we’d typically pair with someone bringing what you’re bringing.
Hassan holds hope and doubt without forcing either into a resolution. He has sat with people through the almosts and the endings that never got a name. He will not tell you to get back out there.
Read Hassan’s full profile →From a member
“It ended after four months and everyone said at least it wasn't serious. It was serious to me. Hassan let it be serious. We talked about the one from March until saying his name stopped hurting. Then we talked about what I want next. Slowly.”
Daniel · 27 · Chicago · 6 months in Hearth
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Hearthside
biweekly Sits · billed monthly · or $390/yr (2 months free)
Hearth Deep
weekly Sits · billed monthly · or $990/yr (2 months free)
The First Sit takes about 12 minutes
Pull up a chair. Your Keeper will be on the other side within 72 hours.
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