Today it seems easy to start a relationship: One swipe of the finger on the screen and you're ready to mate. But who's hiding behind the avatar: the love of your life or the freak you want to run away from on a date? Here he comes to the meeting wearing sandals and socks. How to understand whether it's because the guy - my mother's treasure, or he just really liked the collection of Dior Men spring-summer 2021? Should I leave him my phone number or should I just leave him on Instagram as a subscriber?
Psychologists say that strong relationships will be those based on respect, friendship, mutual interests and the coincidence of life rhythms. In fact, they do not say anything new. Compatibility is the ability to be happy with each other and still be as much as possible. About compatible people, they say that in the long run, they are "on their way" and that they live in the same frame of reference or "soul to soul. The whole trick is that a serious relationship is built beyond the magic lens of falling in love, when the passionate chemistry of attraction boils over.
By the way, finding your other half doesn't mean finding the "missing piece." And although they say that opposites attract, often instead of merging into one, they repel and fly in different directions. In order not to limit your personal growth, it is better not to look for a "complement" to yourself, but for a like-minded person. A person with a similar system of values and principles.
An interesting psychological conclusion experts have made, analyzing couples by temperament. The strongest were the unions in which the temperament of the partners maximum difference. For example, "choleric - melancholic" or "sanguine - phlegmatic.
A healthy relationship is about compromise. Not a concession to please the partner, but just a search for a third solution that will satisfy both.