Are you dreaming of an emate? Looking at online dating sites only leads to more questions? Are they really gonna deliver your dream date – your emate?

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Have you ever had the experience of chatting or emailing a possible date online who seemed full of potential and find that when you meet for the first time that they are not all they appeared to be when flirting virtually.   Recently I was reading a Makeuseof.com post about How to Read & Interpret Body Language which got me to thinking about how that translates online to our virtual body language.  Online dating & social networks rely to a large degree on virtual body language and this of course is where some issues arise when finding a partner online.

“Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.” Professor Albert Mehrabian

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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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I would like to continue the conversation about whether we are attracted to those who are the similar to us or different from us. , from Chemistry.com has developed her own theory about this issue and has recently published a book describing her theory ‘Why Him? Why Her?: Finding Real Love By Understanding Your Personality Type’.  The four types are identified below as per their website:

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