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Cyberspace match leads to a wedding
Published Saturday, July 7, 2007
To all those who doubt the value of Internet dating, listen closely: Sometimes, just sometimes, love blossoms online. Just ask Val Moline, who gathered for tea Friday morning with her sisters, sister-in-laws and friends to celebrate her wedding to a man she met through eHarmony.com.
“I’m feeling more blessed than I ever have in my entire life,” Moline told a group of 17 friends and relatives seated on the porch of her childhood home in Fergus Falls.
Moline, who marries Talmadge Hobbs of Atlanta, Ga., this afternoon at Church of the Nazarene, first joined the eHarmony dating service in early 2006, inspired by a radio interview with the service’s founder, Dr. Neil Clark Warren. The service’s users fill out a 436-question relationship questionnaire, designed to identify a person’s key characteristics, beliefs, values and skills - Moline said the questionnaire took her three to four hours to finish.
After completing the questionnaire, users receive two free reports: a personality profile, which describes the user’s personality type, and a compatibility profile, which outlines the type of person the user can expect to be compatible with long-term. According to the company’s website, eHarmony creates matches based on 29 dimensions necessary for compatibility and relationship success. After signing up for one of the service’s membership plans, users receive guidance on how to meet their matches.
Moline started communicating with Hobbs in April 2006 and the two exchanged pictures in May before Hobbs visited Fergus Falls on Memorial Day. Now Moline is getting married, the second Moline sibling to meet a spouse online — Nathan, one of Moline’s 11 brothers and sisters, met his wife of two years through eHarmony as well.
Friday’s gathering included guests from across the U.S. and Canada — sister-in-laws from Oregon and Iowa, and friends from Three Hills in Alberta, Canada, where Moline taught music at Prairie Bible Institute for several years. Moline now teaches at Morning Son Christian School.
Over tea, scones and sandwiches, Moline and her friends celebrated a match made in cyberspace, proof that sometimes love is just a click away.
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An important component of developing a great relationship can involve looking at each person's personality type in the relationship. Personality types can provide a lot of foresight into potential strengths & weaknesses in relationships. For those who don't know their personality type, there are a lot of sites offering personality type assessment & profiles, but some cost a lot of money. At www.insightgame.org, users can play The Insight Game, a card game to determine their personality type-for free. The game was developed by a psychologist and is quick, fun and as accurate as any other test available. Good luck in your relationships!
Posted by Jinx_walker (anonymous) on July 8, 2007 at 10:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
well i agree with this because thats how i met my wife. i met her online about 3 years ago now. started talking. in about a month or two she moved in with me. abotu a month later we got married. granted it has been a rough and bumpy 3 years with everyone telling us we would not survive past 6 months. but now we have 2 kids and we are coming up on our 3 year aniversary....
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