What is relationship compatibility and is it contradictory to the idea that opposites are attracted to each other? As you search for your soulmate should you focus on compatibility or on differences? What truly makes for a happy relationship?
Most dating sites use an algorithm that matches you with people who have similar interests as you. It’s common for people to end up in relationship with someone who is the same race, economic, or educational background. Are these the characteristics you should focus on?
When it comes to lasting love there is something more powerful going on when you look at how attraction and relationship compatibility work together.
Similar interests and
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Dating 101
How To Find Love When You’re Too Old To Play Games
Are you tired of playing games when it comes to love? Feel like you’re too old to put up with the emotional drama that you experienced in your youth? You just want to know how to find love and make it last.
The good news is that you can learn how to find love in a new way!
By making a few adjustments in your thinking and in taking new actions, you can transform your frustration into lasting love.
How To Find Love When You’re Too Old To Play Games
People play emotional games in their relationships because they aren’t emotionally aware or mature enough to take responsibility for their behavior. If you feel like you’ve done the work and are ready for something different, then here is a
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How To Date When You’re Serious About Finding Your Beloved
Are you clear on how to date so you’re in service of your relationship goals? No one will fault you if you’re just looking to have a good time, however, how to date is different depending on your reasons for dating. Dating as a social activity is very different than dating when you are serious about finding your beloved.
The problem is many women use their same strategies disregarding their goals and desire for a serious relationship. If you want a true soul partnership, to live alongside your beloved, raise children, and spend a lifetime together then how you date must reflect those goals.
Let’s take a look at some of the differences between casually dating and having fun versus
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Tired Of Being Single During Quarantine? How To Date In The Time Of Coronavirus
If the social distancing you’re practicing during the current COVID-19 crisis has you feeling tired of being single don’t despair, there are ways to connect even during these trying times. You may be thinking that dating as you know it is over, however, that may not be a bad thing.
With Stay At Home orders in place for an indeterminate amount of time, you can still cultivate connection and use this time to stop dating backwards and instead develop the skills to finally connect with your soulmate.
Many dating apps are seeing a huge rise in active users, so the desire to connect is as strong as it’s ever been. The truth is most men have only been using online dating and apps to ask women
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Are You Depressed About Being Single For So Long?
Follow these steps to end being perpetually single on Valentine’s Day:
Another Valentine’s Day and another year you’re feeling depressed about being perpetually single for so long that you’re thinking about joining a convent. You could celebrate Single’s Awareness Day. Or you could get together with friends and complain about holidays created by greeting card companies and drown your sorrows in another cosmo.
But, Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be something to hate or something to avoid. Instead, if you’re depressed about being single you can choose to be motivated to make a plan to end your loneliness, make sure you are no longer perpetually single, or from going to one relationship
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How Long Should I Wait For Him?
This week's question comes from Suzie:
"Dear Orna and Matthew,
The crux of my question is this: How long should I wait for him?
My boyfriend and I have been together for a couple of years and I love him and yet I don’t know if it is ever going to work out. He is still dealing with his ex and working through custody issues with their 7 yr. old son.
They spend a lot of time together (at events for his kid’s school, at parties and gatherings with their friends from their marriage) sometimes it’s like they aren’t even divorced. I feel excluded from his life in many ways.
He says he still cares for her but that they will never get back together because they fight so much. But it
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