The Parship relationship glossary
Personal
Personal = Short for personal ad
Usually a short text placed in magazines or papers by single
Is a personal the last resort?
“SM, blond, seeks SF, for possible romance…” many personal ads start like this. You see them in newspapers or in magazines. You might think that people who place a personal are desperate or that there is something wrong with them, because otherwise they wouldn’t be single and trying so hard to find someone. What most people forget is that there are quite a few “normal” singles that have difficulties finding the right partner. Some just don’t have the time to go out all the time and meet new people. Others are simply shy. Nowadays the Internet has become a common medium for personal ads. There are numbers of dating sites and other forums where people write short texts about themselves and about what they’re seeking. The drawback of placing a personal is that anyone can answer them. That way you have to decide whom out of a large number of persons you want to contact based only on very little information.
With PARSHIP you can find a partner for a serious long-term relationship in a more specific way. First you take the PARSHIP psychometric test, which is based on recent social scientific research. Part of the test is expressing what you wish for in a long-term relationship and also saying what your values are. Then PARSHIP will present you with other registered singles whose test results correspond to your own. Out of the suggested persons you can choose whom you want to get in touch with. Many people have already found their match on PARSHIP as you can read in our success stories.
