Personality Type and Real Love
April 25, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Relationships
I’ve been reading “Why Him? Why Her? Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type” this week. I’ve had it in my to-read pile for months, but new things come in all the time and sometimes good books get buried in the pile. The book was written by Helen Fisher, Ph.D, author of “The Anatomy of Love” and scientific adviser to Chemistry.com.
Working with Chemistry.com, she developed a system of four basic personality types. These are Explorers, Builders, Directors, and Negotiators. There’s a test in the book that will help you determine your main and your secondary personality types.
I am a …read more
Chemistry and the Part It Plays In Attraction
August 26, 2008 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Relationships
Over at Chemistry.com, they have a number of interesting articles on the issues of dating, attraction, chemistry, ect. I’m working my way through them and I thought that an article, by Kimberly Dawn Neumann, entitled, Are Certain Types Destined To Date, was timely in light of Lara’s First Dates #374 post last week.
The article explains that some people look for someone like themself and some look for someone very different, but that for the most part, the successful relationship is the one in which the couples have complimentary personalities - not just exactly the same, not too different. Although, there is a danger …read more




