The Woman Who Quit Teaching To Cuddle Strangers!
Ella Love, 51, left a 13-year career teaching in New York public schools after burnout from overcrowded classrooms, funding issues, and behavior challenges.
In 2017, she discovered professional cuddling, paid $300 for a training course, and began doing it part-time while still teaching. Within six months, she took a sabbatical and never returned to the classroom.
Today, she works about three hours a day, charges $150 an hour, and earns between $60,000 and $100,000 annually.
Love says her clients are often middle-aged, married men who feel emotionally disconnected or lacking physical affection at home. She emphasizes that the sessions are strictly non-sexual, with clear boundaries in place from the start.
She also works with clients who have autism or limited experience with safe, consensual touch, saying the goal is comfort and emotional regulation, not romance!
Lana Backman
