Find Out if You and Your Partner Are Compatible

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19 Jul 2009 02:40 PM

Are you are and your partner compatible?' On the weekend while watching TV we saw an add saying 'Text Passion and your partner's name and find out if you're compatible.'

'Shall I text to see if we're compatible,' I said.

Mick and I looked at each other and laughed. 'How ridiculous.' Not the idea of finding out if you are compatible but texting some number to find out.

But it did provide a blog idea. If you want to find out if you and your partner are compatible try these ten simple tests.

1. Do you enjoy being together? Would you rather spend time with them than anyone else you know?

2. Do you miss them when you're apart? Do you think about them and want to see them and talk to them?

3. Do you have common interests? We may not like to do all the same things, but you should have some common interests.

4. Can you talk to your partner about all sorts of things? One of the things I value in our relationship that we can talk together about big issues but also about small things like who won the footy or what we're reading or lots of other topics. We talk about shared times and memories. It's good to have a shared history.

5. Can you be silent together and still feel comfortable, or is it awkward? There's nothing worse than feeling you have to make conversation when you don't want to, when you just feel like being quiet. Sometimes with some people silences can be uncomfortable. It shouldn't feel that way if you are compatible.

6. Do you laugh at the same things? Mick and I don't always. He will watch some shows and find them funny, while I won't. But there are others that make us both laugh. I appreciate that he laughs at my little jokes. We like to make each other laugh. 7. Do you angry or upset about the same issues, about the things that are happening in the world, about injustice etc?

8. Do you have similar core values and beliefs? Do you pray together and go to church and worship together?

9. Does thinking about your partner make your heart race and, make you feel happy?

10. Is your partner not just your love but a friend - the one you turn to and want to share with when you are troubled, upset, happy, excited?

Please let me know if you think there are any others that should be included in this compatibility list.

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