Olivia, 34, had been on three major dating apps over four years. She'd had relationships — one long one, two short ones — but none of them had the coherence she was looking for. "I kept meeting people I found attractive but had nothing in common with past the first few weeks."
She joined LoveCertain expecting the same. "I was honestly half-doing it as an experiment." She answered the questionnaire carefully, flagged her values around independence and intellectual honesty, and got three matches. The highest-scoring was James, 36, a structural engineer from Bristol.
"On paper we had almost nothing in common — I'm in publishing, he builds bridges. But the values overlap was remarkable. We both care about honesty to the point of being slightly difficult. Neither of us wanted children. We had nearly identical answers about conflict resolution." They were together within 39 days of first contact.