It's true: you have a type in love

He was always a bit of the surfer type in flip-flops or All Stars, preferably with dark hair and some self-tied bracelets around the wrist. You could draw my objects of desire for me back then, I had a pretty well-defined type that I was into. Until I made a detour while studying and actually never ended up with that type again. My boyfriend had it too. The sailing girl, a bit posh, mid-brown shoulder-length hair, collar up, preferably with the head framed by a natural curl escaping a bun. Not quite succeeded, we can conclude. We brushed it off under the notion that a type doesn’t actually exist, but (oh oh) science says something very different.

How does it work? First of all, it seems you are looking for a partner who resembles yourself. Now, I don’t see myself as a surfer with dark hair, but hey, maybe I am that inside. The similarities between partners go much further than we thought, according to new research. The more extroverted you are, the greater the chance that you tap into a wide range of types. And if you are of the adventurous kind and up for something new? Then it could very well be that you end up with a different type. Conversely, this also works: the more introverted you are, the easier it is to choose the same old, same old.

A small disclaimer is that you are always a bit stuck with the same kind of people in your work and in your friend group, which makes you tend to go for this type and not look further. Hmmm. I’m not entirely sure what my extroverted choice was and what wasn’t, but it does sound logical.

Source: NU.nl