Study: This is what makes the perfect partner

Are you the one?
According to the study, this marks a perfect match

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Similarities? Good sex Attractiveness? Parship asked around 1,000 people what makes a perfect match for them. Are you d'accord with that?

Anyone who appreciates sophisticated TV entertainment will surely be familiar with the American MTV show "Are You The One", adapted by RTL. As a rule, 20 singles are selected for the format who are allowed to spend several weeks in the same house in order to solve a task during this time: Finding out who suits whom best, i.e. identifying perfect matches. These were determined by psychologists – of course on the basis of highly scientific analyzes and methods – (presumably they pay attention to things like similarities, values, demands on love and relationship, etc.).

* Just briefly on the edge *: In fact, the candidates in the story of Are You The One were amazingly successful in solving this task. Eight seasons of the show have been filmed for MTV since 2014; the candidates only failed in one of them and had not found their perfect match after ten "matching nights". Statistically speaking, according to the rules of Are You The One, a group of 20 people (without ingenious strategists or math geniuses) would need an average of 37 attempts to get a predefined assignment right – if they had no feelings that are obvious from mathematics to thwart the bill … But back to the actual topic!

1,000 singles questioned

As part of a Parship study, 1,000 singles were asked which criteria make up a perfect match for them personally. So basically: What would you pay attention to if you were a candidate for Are You The One? The majority answer suggests that the respondents have great emotional wisdom: 44 percent think the most important thing is that they don't have to pretend. You may already know from your own experience: pretending to be – that doesn't go well for long. Meanwhile, it appears in front of the camera to find out whether you can present yourself to someone authentically or not, an extra difficult challenge … but we're digging around again.

More than 40 percent of those surveyed also found reliability to be very important: they expect their perfect match to always be able to count on this person. While the younger target group (up to 29) also stated humor as a decisive criterion with 42 percent agreement, the respondents from 50 onwards attributed great importance to shared values ​​and deep trust.

Sexual harmony, which, as Are-You-The-One fans know, is also happy to be tested on the show, rated a total of 34 percent of those surveyed as decisive – but only 21 percent of the women surveyed. Noticeably few people in this sample (less than 10 percent) placed value on their dream partner bringing out the best of them or doing something just for their sake, even though he / she doesn't feel like doing it.

How well does the match-making process from Are You The One work?

For everyone who struggles with the fact that they have to rely on their feelings alone and, for example, the "Do I have to pretend for this person?" Question instead of being allowed to look for their perfect match on a TV show: Comfort yourself! From the first season of RTL, only one couple who was chosen by the match makers stayed together after the production (Kevin and Kathi). Even in the US version, the success rate is not exactly high: After eight seasons and thus around 80 couples, only about a handful are known that they are still together or are dating today. Only Ethan and Amber from Season 1 have made it: They are currently married and have two children together. And this is certainly due at least to the fact that they don't have to pretend to be one another.

Sources used: TVinsider, Intouchweekly, Instagram, Zeitjung

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