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Next Attempt: Chem​istry​.com

2009
12.07

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I noticed this past week­end that Chem​istry​.com was hav­ing a free com­mu­ni­ca­tions week­end, so I decided to check it out. If you don’t know, Chem​istry​.com is Match’s ver­sion of eHar­mony, for the peo­ple try­ing to find love. I tried it once two years ago for the per­son­al­ity test, and then never went back on the site. When it first started, I didn’t like the lay­out, and there weren’t that many peo­ple on it, so I never gave it a chance.

This time around, I must say that I was impressed. The visual UI is great and it’s easy to nav­i­gate. Like eHar­mony, Chem​istry​.com goes through a series of steps before you can have open com­mu­ni­ca­tion with some­one, but it’s so much more user friendly and less time consuming.

So far, there are three guys who I like. The one I like the most is geeky (the way I like them), so I am hop­ing that he responds back to the short answers I sent him. I am now ask­ing guys up front if they are emo­tion­ally healthy because the last guy I was into turned out to be a HOT MESS!

Def­i­nitely will keep you updated on how Chem​istry​.com turns out.

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  • Only warning is that many people think they are emotionally healthy when they are just as damaged. So when you ask, they could say "yes" and have no clue.
  • heartbrakehotel
    Emotional health is something that you can usually tell in the first couple of months. The only problem is that you waste a couple of months trying to figure it out. I just wish people were honest about themselves. It would save me a lot of time.
  • simon
    in my experience, the key to discovering emotional health is to ask a lot of personal history questions up front (within the first couple weeks) and to know which red flags to look out for, ie:

    -- lots of failed relationships
    -- very long-term or serious (engagement/marriage) relationship that ended recently
    -- lots of family problems
    -- drinking/drug problems
    -- little or no friends
    -- problems at work
  • heartbrakehotel
    Those are great tips to discovering emotional health. I also found that men who have a tendency to hang out with people five or more years younger than himself, have issues.
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