Therapists Share The 1 Question They Would Ask On Love Is Blind To Suss Out Compatibility
Can the right questions help you find the right person sooner? Therapists have thoughts. Above, Devin Buckley and Brittany Dodson chat in the pods of the latest season of "Love Is Blind."
Every season on Netflix’s reality dating show Love Is Blind, we see people make the gamble of a lifetime by dating and getting engaged to people they have never seen in person.
To decide who they will marry, contestants first enter pods where they cannot see each other, but they can ask revealing questions about their date’s dreams, past loves and politics.
On the latest season, set in Minneapolis, the conversations in the pods revealed deal breakers. For Brittany Dodson, for example, it was Devin Buckley’s discomfort with her past sexual experience with a woman that ended her attraction to him.
But some answers were not enough to end a relationship. Contestant Sara Carton did not like the fact that Ben Mezzenga didn’t vote and didn’t feel “one way or the other” about Black Lives Matter. But Ben promised they “will be on the same side” on social issues, and the pair ended up getting engaged.
What’s wild and entertaining about this dating experiment is how these wide-ranging conversations are the foundation for couples deciding whether or not to get engaged – and yet the couples on Love Is Blind often end up being wrong about their choices.
Although there are a rare handful of successful matches – shoutout to Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton – most Love Is Blind pairings end up crashing and burning before they make it to the altar, often because of fundamental incompatibilities. Is there any way these romantics could have prevented the fallout sooner by asking the right questions upfront in the pods?
HuffPost asked relationship therapists about the one question they would personally ask potential suitors in order to determine compatibility ASAP. Get out your gold goblets and notepads, and read what they had to say:
“What would your exes say if I asked them what it’s like to be in a relationship with you?”
“In the early stages of a relationship, it’s nearly........
