Today I’m going to do a review of Dateline’s Relationship Assessment – they call it ‘The Really Ultimate Relationship Test’. It’s basically a condensed Myers Briggs assessment (Jungian based) which they have purchased from testsonthenet.com. I’m pretty partial to Myers Briggs assessments, having been a Jungian therapist in a past life. However I’m not sure that there are enough questions to really give an accurate assessment. I have always been an ENF(Feeling)J however on Dateline I became a ENT(Thinking)J? Apart from enjoying the change from being a Feeling oriented person to being a Thinking oriented person, it makes me a little wary of this short assessment.

“A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.” Paul Valery

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Today I would like to explore Jungian typology.  The rules of attraction are a lot more complicated & complex than the models that have been used by eharmony & Chemistry.com as I have mentioned in past posts in this series.  (See links below)

“Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.” Gutzkow

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Today I’m going to review be2.com relationship assessment The questionnaire is short, easy to complete & not too taxing to the gray matter!

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success means different things for different people and it is great if both partners in a relationship have similar definitions. The word success meaning “result, outcome,” comes from the Latin successus ‘an advance, succession, happy outcome’. The combined effort of more than one person, can certainly contribute to easier, more sustained success than one person solo. Success can be very tangible & solid or it can be much more subtle depending on the type of success that is desired. There are four main categories of success are:

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We all experience the world through different lenses and therefore express ourselves in different ways. We express ourselves through our hearts, through what we are passionate about and everything we love to do. Hopefully the vehicle is career and our creative pursuits. We can even express ourselves through the joy of having children. Self expression is important for everyone’s happiness and contentment in life and in relationships. It comes from the very core of our being. Therefore when matching couples it is necessary to make sure that each person can express themselves. There are four general types of categories in how we express ourselves.

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