On Connection

If you have ever been asked what you are looking for in a partner and answered with a height, a job or “someone funny”, you are not alone. A relationship values list helps you go one level deeper: from the type of person you are drawn to, to the qualities that decide whether you will actually be hap...

You spent most of the date wondering whether they liked you.

Whether you talked too much, whether the joke landed, whether they will text after the date... and somewhere on the way home, it occurs to you that you never stopped to ask the other question: did you like them?

If that sounds familia...

Dating apps have made it easier than ever to access other singles.

And yet, for many people, meeting someone still feels surprisingly difficult.

A representative Swiss survey conducted in September 2024 found that 61% of singles had previously dated online or were currently looking for a partner on...

When people describe what they want in a partner, values, needs and preferences often become mixed together. Someone may say they need a partner who is ambitious, tall, spontaneous or highly educated, while overlooking the deeper qualities that would determine whether the relationship actually feel...

Many people know that they want a relationship, but have much less clarity about what they want that relationship to feel like, how it should function or what kind of person could realistically build it with them. They may be able to describe an ideal partner as intelligent, attractive, ambitious ...

Dating can bring up a lot of uncertainty.

You meet someone new, you feel excited, and suddenly your mind starts trying to answer questions you cannot possibly know the answers to yet. Do they like me? Where is this going? Did I say the wrong thing? Why haven’t they replied? Am I wasting my time?

Be...