{"id":17395,"date":"2015-08-10T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=17395"},"modified":"2016-09-08T21:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:51:48","slug":"science-proves-opposites-dont-attract-when-it-comes-to-romantic-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/science-proves-opposites-dont-attract-when-it-comes-to-romantic-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"SCIENCE PROVES OPPOSITES DON&#8217;T ATTRACT WHEN IT COMES TO ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/couple-in-love.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/couple-in-love.jpg\" alt=\"couple in love\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/couple-in-love.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/couple-in-love-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physics taught us opposites attract but when it comes to romantic relationships, that law shouldn&#8217;t be used.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Keystone College in Pennsylvania after studying relationships found when it comes to choosing best friends, opposite attracts as the relationship thrived due to the difference in their personalities.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that extroverts find it easier to make friends quickly but often need a more introverted friend to balance them out who can tease, challenge and calm them.<\/p>\n<p>The introverted, tough-minded, restless, neurotic and traditional personalities tend to choose as a best friend someone who is more agreeable and open than they are.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found that friends who drink together and tackle a crisis together no matter how little are more likely to get closer than those who do not drink together and avoid shared dramas.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe such friendships can last a lifetime however badly they behave or whatever spouses or friends they may have.<\/p>\n<p>While friendships work best with a certain amount of opposite attracting, the same can&#8217;t be said of\u00a0 romantic relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that for romantic relationships to have a higher chance of survival, the partners should be largely similar in their personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Do do you have a different personality from your best friend? Do you share similar personalities with your partner?<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Phil<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics taught us opposites attract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[79],"tags":[2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29867,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17395\/revisions\/29867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}