Recognized for its commercials featuring founder, Dr. Neil Clark Warren PhD.- a respected Psychologist and bestselling author, eHarmony claims to generate an average of 90 marriages A DAY! Controversial due to the fact that it denies up to 20% of applicant to the site and specifically blocks gay users and anyone previously married more than once (you have to be single in the first place), eHarmony is a dating site only for the most serious relationship minded daters. With a $59.95 a month price tag, and a full 1-hour registration, this site concentrates on serving an upper class market of clients that are highly dedicated to matching themselves with a lifelong partner.
You’ll appreciate: getting married to someone you meet on eHarmony.com, as an average of 90 people a day get married through matches made through this service. Once you’ve filled out the entire ‘Compatibility Matching System’, this dating site seems to pretty much do all the hard work for you, even guiding you and your matches through a scripted ‘Guided Communication Process’ that takes the pressure of getting to know one another, asking for the first date, and tips on how to proceed all the way to marriage.
You won’t like: getting rejected for being gay, previously married twice, or deemed emotionally unstable after filling out an entire 1 hour survey, which is pretty time consuming even for the average online dater. Unless you’re ready to hang up your single’s hat for the rest of your life, this is not the site for you, and unlike most online dating site, you’re not given the privilege of sorting through hundreds of profiles according to user’s pictures: you can only see images of matches that have been suggested by the service
Distinguishing Features:
- Compatibility Matching System is an intense 436 question survey that measures your compatibility according to values, character, and intellect, sense of humor, spiritual beliefs and passion. It takes a while to complete, but ensures a very precise matching system with proven results
- Guided Communication Process gives you a prescribed path for you and your selected match to follow according to guidelines that measure the progress of your relationship and lay out the next step in a way that minimizes fallout throughout the process, and continues to provide relationship advice beyond the initial first date.