To give you a thorough understanding of how other personalities will interact with you, it is important for you to know how your own personality affects the communication dynamic.

As a Red Persona, you might pursue someone who can match your intellect. Clearly, you’d be interested in looks and build and so on, but if a decision was needed between a few reasonable choices, you’d go with the guy who can match you intellectually.

From early on in a dating situation, you’d be critiquing a guy to see what he knows or how he thinks. As he engages you, you’d soon be evaluating if he could hold his place in a little debate or if he’d fold to your quick-fire mind without a fight, as that wouldn’t be satisfactory. Although your selection process can be very pragmatic, you are likely to be attracted by what you see. You tend to make snap judgements, so to increase your chances of finding the right partner, it is important you try to give your dates a good few chances to get accustomed to your direct manner, so don’t be too dismissive too quickly.

As unpleasant as it might sound, you need to understand that it can be quite daunting for someone to be on a date with you. You can get impatient if the small talk wears thin, or might try to jump into a battle of wits and opinions when all you should be doing is enjoying yourself and the company you’re in. Men can pick up on little things like that very quickly and some might get intimidated by your character. So, next time you find yourself on a date, concentrate on what you like about the guy, and don’t turn the date in a critiquing marathon in your head. Once you slow down and give the man a chance to shine, you might just be pleasantly surprised!

A quick birds-eye view of your matches

A Red Persona like you has a style of communicating that is fast, challenging and intellectual, almost to the point of being abrasive and blunt. Only the personas that can cope with this and give back as good as they get will be appealing to you, or will find you appealing. The Yellow, Orange and White personas are able to match your communication style and cope with it.

You will find different aspects of these three personas appealing. The lifestyle pace of the dynamic Yellow, the drive, ambition and sophistication of the Orange, and the problem-solving ingenuity of the White persona are all personality traits that you might be attracted to.

Those who won’t cope with your confrontational style are the more reserved personas: the Mints, the Greens and the Blues. They won’t be able to keep up with your tendency to debate for the sake of debating. And their communication to you will be too verbose and too filled with irrelevant details for you to sit up and notice them. Another of your strong traits is being decisive and quick to make decisions, and all of these three personas would prefer to stall making decisions until they have gathered up enough information or enough confidence to do so.

The three personas who stand a change of being your Mr Right all share your irreverent propensity of taking audacious risks, while the three that are unsuitable to become your Mr Right are all very risk averse.