The Single Life

AC Content producer Gail Washington wrote an excellent and humorous article about being single and looking for a partner (right click here).
Whilst I could write a few articles or more about the varied and interesting ways I have encountered and met some of my lovers you will have to keep posted for more in the future.
I loved Gail's article.
What I want to talk about here is that internet dating site called eHarmony. Like Gail said they ask hundreds of questions and based on this one might be forgiven for thinking that the site do actually take notice of your answers and go to a bit of trouble in trying to match you up with vaguely compatible sorts.

I responded to an offer for a free trial. I mean; what did I have to lose I thought.
It was fun answering their questionnaires and they did provide me with some interesting personality profiles that seemed pretty accurate.
Definitely interesting.

They told me I was both an introvert and an extrovert. Does this make me a hermit who is an adept social butterfly? They also told me I was very feeling and emotional and an objective analytical type. I suppose this makes me a subjective scientist.
They then went on to tell me I was withdrawn yet very communicative. Is this why I talk to trees? And on that subject I can apparently see both the forest and the trees. I am also an action person who can work at the 'speed of light' but am also a meditator and dreamer who has no trouble sitting in the same spot for a week or two.
Their whole analysis of me seemed completely contradictory yet despite that I felt it to be quite true. After all I always was good at both English and Math at school.

Now after going through all this and spending perhaps an hour or more answering all of their questions I was feeling optimistic that they may match me with a possible soul-mate. However this was not to be so. They proceeded to tell me (in very polite and verbose language) that I was unsuitable for marriage. They stated that I was one of the 2% of people for whom they felt they could never offer any matches.

This was indeed startling and disturbing news. I wondered if it was related to my chosen nickname; Toothless Dreaded Hag as opposed to my personality profile.
Or perhaps I am just plainly too complex I mused.
I mean what man could cope with all the above contradictions as a matter of course?
I guess they told me what I already suspected; I'm just too damn weird to ever find a husband.

Yet despite their potentially shattering analysis they then proceeded to send me an endless list of strange and weird matches. It appears they take little notice of those hundreds or so questions they ask.
I don't know if any of my potential matches were as weird or contradictory as myself as I was always too poor to spend money subscribing or buying stamps etc to write to them. If I do indeed have a soul-mate out there they'll just have to find me by another method.
I like being single and, unlike Gail I never feel out of place going anywhere by myself.

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