eHarmony dating review

eHarmony makes use of their proprietary technology to help you create a personality profile and then matches you with those who complement your personality. It's an active matchmaker rather than a passive one. This is not a site where you can just go about searching for someone to date and drop them a line.

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On eHarmony, you can communicate only with those who eHarmony has determined to be compatible with you and they need to be paid members. While this may seem somewhat limiting, it ensures that the people you're communcating with, take your profile more seriously because of various reasons.

Members are shown only the profiles that match with their own, as per eHarmony's technology and eHarmony tells them you're a good match for them. They know you're a paid member and this makes you a more serious prospect. They know you took the trouble of filling out the long questionaires of eHarmony.

When you're a paid member, you can ask for communication with any of the matches. If the match agrees, then you go through a three-step process before you can send them mail.

There is a way to skip this process by asking for 'Fast Track'. This doesn't cost anything and is a simple request. (We don't recommend Fast Tracking, more on that in a while.) The process includes:

The First Step

This has multiple choice questions. You're expected to select five personality/character/relationship-oriented, multiple-choice questions from a list that you're shown. This is then sent to the other person to answer. They do the same and you're expected to answer their questions.

The Second Step

You need to pick from a list the traits that you expect your partner to have and the traits in your partner that you wouldn't be able to stand. You also need to provide three "open-ended" questions that the other person will answer. You can select from a list of questions provided to you or write your own question.

You can now communicate freely with your partner. Remember, a paid member of eharmony.com can only communicate with another paid member. If a person is a paid member and the partner they're matched with is a free member, they cannot communicate. eHarmony costs $59.95 a month and is more expensive compared to most other dating sites.

So it's possible that you may find a match but the person may not pay the membership fee and you may not be able to communicate. As a free member, you'll receive matches with paid members, up to a maximum of 10, which is the limit for free members.

Although eHarmony is a trifle expensive compared to other dating sites, it's easier to find dates on eHarmony because of the way it works. We recommend you sign up for an initial free membership and then upgrade to paid when you get suitable matches. A last tip is that sometimes delaying upgrading to a paid membership also works in your favour because ever so often, eHarmony will send you a coupon that gives you a generous discount off their regular monthly fee. Sign up for their free trial at eharmony.com .