Why ‘Fixing’ Your Friends Will Only Break Your Relationships

I once had a bad habit of setting up my single friends on dates with each other. (If you were one of them, consider this my public apology.) At the time, it felt like harmless matchmaking—mixing circles and manufacturing a little serendipity. The problem is that people aren’t pawns, and relationships aren’t party tricks. One friend finally called me out and asked me to stop playing with her heart.That conversation stuck with me, not because I was embarrassed—though I was—but because I realized w