Mr. Warren, who has practiced for more than 30 years, says watching more than 500 marriages crash and burn brought him to the conclusion that the spouses had married the wrong person. His book outlines 10 principles for choosing the right marriage partner. Mr. Warren has given more than 120 seminars on the subject of mate selection. Compatible traits include chemistry, wit, verbal intimacy, energy level, children, socializing, sexuality and financial goals. Matched singles are guided through an anonymous six-stage communication process guided by the Web site.
People become addicted to the external.
Once they see the external, they think they know the internal, and 75 percent of the time they're dead wrong. After two members have completed the process, they decide whether to meet in person. The service has 50,000 registered users and hopes to grow to 265,000 by the end of the year and to 3 million by the end of 2002. Mr. Warren says 5 percent to 10 percent of those who register are weeded out through a screening process that can identify the emotionally disabled. Society as a whole, in my opinion, has become very disillusioned about marriage.