Алиса Пермякова

This is a story that starts almost absurdly but ends up perfectly normally. It began when a very respectable lady rang us. She went through the interview under the banner of "I just want to learn a bit more about myself", listened to everything we had to say about her, and then began circling in with leading questions: how do we find partners, how do we work out compatibility, and so on.

Long ago, when we were only just beginning to study personality types and the relationships between them, we asked ourselves what certain theoretically compatible personality types could actually give each other. Two explosive types who at first glance could never get along, for instance, may have far more in common than one would imagine. For some reason this brought Rita and Lyolik to mind. They were exactly that case where something unbelievable, from an ordinary person's point of view, happe

Every large company has its own dynamic, its own roles for the staff and its own office romances. And as for company parties, everyone who could be bothered has made a joke about them. Yet for all those jokes, memes and articles on pop-psychology websites, there is no avoiding it — such is human nature.

Let me tell you about my own experience of dating over the internet. Sixteen years of it, and a happy marriage that came out of a site — that is not nothing, is it. On top of everything else, I even ended up working with such a site. Over that time I worked out a set of rules and principles that are worth following if you want to improve your chances. Those principles, by the way, are what led me to a happy marriage.