Emma Pierson studied “studied 1 million matches made by the online dating website eHarmony’s algorithm, which aims to pair people who will be attracted to one another and compatible over the long term; if the people agree, they can message each other to set up a meeting in real life. eHarmony’s data on its users contains 102 traits for each person ”” everything from how passionate and ambitious they claim to be to how much they say they drink, smoke and earn.”
She found that the old adage about opposites and attraction doesn’t hold…
That’s really interesting.
In my twenties, I dated a woman who was remarkably like me. We found we agreed on everything, and after a few months it really began to be stale and boring.
A year later, I met a woman who is not like me in many ways other than a profoundly shared faith. We have been happily and interestingly married for nearly 38 years. Not opposite, but surely different and complementary.
Er, I seem to recall Woody Allen addressing this subject…