No one's mentioned eharmony.com. I've had a few friends meet their current girlfriends via eharmony. I tried it for a while and met someone who was like me, almost too much like me. It was kind of creepy.
The process at eharmony is:
1. Take personality quiz. It's fairly in depth, so this is not a place to skimp.
2. Fill out profile. Generic crap.
3. Wait for matches. You don't get matches immediately, but it will match you up within a few days.
4. Examine match's profile. Initiate next step communication or close contact.
5. Next step - send out 5 questions from a grab bag of real low key questions, the stuff you'd ask on a date.
6. Respond to questions. The questions are multiple choice, so easy enough to answer without a lot of commitment.
7. Read answers. Continue to next step or close communication.
8. Send out must haves/can't stands. These are criteria that you know that you cognitively know you want.
9. Read match's must haves/can't stands.
10. Continue or close.
11. Send out open ended questions. These are longer, short answer questions that are more in depth. They have a batch that you can send, or you can use some of your own.
12. Respond to match's open ended questions or close.
13. Continue to open communication, which is unregulated communication, but still through eharmony's site.
14. Continue to communicate outside of eharmony.
Lots of luck.
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