At eHarmony they have a very complex matching system. It was developed after a lot of extensive testing of married individuals. Remember what I said about if you want to be a millionaire then go and ask a millionaire how he or she did it? Well, they use that principle when it comes to marriage. They went to the married people and asked them how they found that special someone, and how to create a lasting relationship.

When you join eHarmony what you will first be presented with is filling out a very extensive profile (with 256 questions). They will use this profile to find matching for you…so you won’t have to go spending countless hours of searching through profiles on your own. This is a very good web site for those who are serious about finding that special someone.

Their profile has an area to denote your “Personal Beliefs”. Here is where you can mention that you are a Christian and other information regarding your faith.

In terms of the company, they have over 20 million members, and this increases between 10,000 and 15,000 new members every day. Many people of those people who meet on eHarmony get married every day…on average about 236 people per day. Do the math…this is about 43,000 marriages every year, and this is for the United States alone.

So with this background let’s look a bit at the pros an cons of this website:

On the positive side:
1) They have a very detailed matching model based on profiles and 29 keys. This includes 10 keys that they feel are vital to your future happiness.
2) eHarmony is one of the few websites that has more women than men. If you are single man and seriously looking for that special guy, you should take this into consideration…statistics are in your favor.

On the negative side:
1) It is one of the more expensive web sites. Having said that, when you are looking for your soul mate, what is money?
2) Some people might like to do their own searches for that “someone special”. You can’t do that on eHarmony.
3) You can only communicate those members who have paid for a subscription. This is not a restriction on other web sites.