The day of chocolates and roses is approaching fast and many are without a compatible partner to experience Cupid’s holiday together. Valentine’s Day and the holiday seasons in general can be a difficult time of year for singles if they haven’t met that special someone. Many comprehensive online dating sites offer advanced methods of finding your Valentine that is becoming increasingly popular.
While there is still some trepidation out there regarding the use of online dating services to find someone special, the more in-depth matching sites are becoming more widely accepted over the last several years. Disappointedly, this high-tech method of discovering the most cherished and precious of human conditions called “love” continues to be overlooked by those with preconceived notions or a general lack of insight and experience with online dating.
If you want to find a potential match that is most compatible with your traits and personality, then there are no better places than the personality-assessment and type-matching online dating sites. Many individuals are finding their future wife or husband online through these services. Sites such as eHarmony and Perfectmatch are examples of the types of sites using comprehensive personality matching.
Many online dating sites today utilize computer matching models and personality profile testing that is based on numerous relationship psychologist’s assessments and empirical data taken from the research of many thousands of successful and unsuccessful relationships. This gives you tremendously increased odds at finding that special someone you will share many compatibility traits with. When you rely on the bar scene, casual meetings or allowing mutual friends setting you up with blind dates, your odds of finding true compatibility are not as good.
When using comprehensive online dating sites, there is also the advantage of keeping an individual at a certain level of limited engagement and anonymity as you seek a compatible match. You set the pace of connection and accessibility to communication methods. After you have established sufficient insight and wisdom into the character of the person, and only as you feel comfortable, you can begin to allow additional communication methods and gradual relational growth. Many of these sites allow you maximize introspective insight while maintaining a safe distance. Although it’s up to you to pick a site that allows for these levels of strata communication.
The popular U.S.-based eHarmony website launched in 2000 claims an average of 236 of its members marry every day as a result of being introduced on their scientifically-based, compatibility-matching online dating site.
Below are a few statistics to demonstrate the rise in finding love online.
- In the year 2010 17% of couples who ended-up getting married met on a dating site. [1]
- Married couples who met online have an average courtship period of 18.5 months compared to those couples who met elsewhere typically experiencing a courtship period that lasting an average of 42 months. [2]
- 1 in 5 singles have at sometime dated an individual they met on a dating site. [2]
- 1 in 5 singles find themselves currently in a committed relationship with an individual they met on a dating site. [2]
- According to mobile research group Ground Truth, the mobile phone form of online dating saw a 92% increase in users since the 2010 summer began. [1]
- Juniper estimates the overall mobile phone dating sector will grow to $1.4 billion worldwide by 2013. [3]
Of course there are always dangers associated with cyberspace dating. You are placing yourself out there in a pool of literally millions of unknown individuals. Some issues to be wary of are the fact that some individuals may lie about their personality traits or character. This may lead to false matches with incompatible individuals. For safeties sake, no matter how well you think you know someone based on emails, phone conversations and personality profiles, it is well advised to always take your time in finding-out exactly who you are communicating with when using online dating services. When you get to the point of actually meeting someone in person, always have a chaperon or friend along on that first meeting.
So, if you are alone this Valentine’s Day and want to find a highly compatible match, take a look at some of the scientific, compatibility-matching online dating sites. If you engage the full structured-process, perhaps it is a little late to really get to know the person you will spend this Valentine’s Day with, but chances are Cupid, with the help of a little computer technology, will bring you a match that is more than a Valentine’s date. Perhaps he will bring you a highly compatible lifelong soul mate.
