Why Green Dating at Consonance (Gleichklang) Strengthens Relationships and How Consonance Can Contribute
Does a Green Partner Search Make Sense?
Online dating for green singles at Consonance begins with understanding that how we relate to our environment and climate change, how we practice agriculture, and how we want to treat animals are not isolated individual aspects. All of this is embedded in our worldview and closely linked to social responsibility, care, empathy, tolerance, appreciation, and acceptance.
In loving relationships and friendships, these correlated core psychological characteristics play a decisive role in our relationship happiness and in how we treat each other. An ecological, emancipatory, and green partner search can therefore be helpful in bringing together those people who can be happy together.
Another aspect that argues for a partner search and friendship search that takes green and emancipatory values into account is our life goals and life projects:
- In fact, we only become truly satisfied in life and in our relationships when we manage to act together in accordance with our convictions and values.
With partners or friends with whom we share ecological, green, and social core values, it is easier to live this way and to get involved together where we recognize shared meaning.
In this way, relationships between people with shared green and social values have great potential for prosocial effectiveness in our challenging world. A friendship search and partner search for Green singles therefore makes sense indeed:
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Friendship Search, Partner Search, and Political Parties at Consonance (Gleichklang)
For relationship happiness and friendship happiness, it is not the choice of a specific party that is decisive, but rather a fundamental agreement in ethical and lifestyle-related political-social basic attitudes. In an ecological, emancipatory, and green partner search, therefore, it is primarily about the deeper values, with political voting behavior being connected to these.
Let us take as an example a person who speaks of the “left-green scum,” loves Putin and Donald Trump, and generally attributes social problems to “foreigners”:
- As a partner, such a person would not be suitable for ecologically and green-minded people who view climate change as the greatest problem of our time, demand a shift toward green and environmentally friendly policies, and advocate for the protection of refugees as well as societal diversity.
Authoritarian, xenophobic basic attitudes, the emphasis on hostile competition, and the attitude “Might makes right” are widespread in our society. This has significance for online dating:
- On “regular” dating apps or on other larger dating sites, matchmaking services, and dating platforms, there is a significant percentage of participants who hold exactly such views. For people who advocate ecological, sustainable, and green values, this is a problem.
Consonance (Gleichklang) as an Alternative to Market-Logic Mainstream Dating
At Consonance as an alternative matchmaking service and meeting platform, this is different:
- We implement online dating that corresponds to so-called Green Dating and specifically enables a green partner search. Here, people meet for partnerships, friendships, projects, or communities who explicitly affirm the core green issues of environmental protection and climate protection, a positive attitude toward people from other nations and cultures, as well as gender equality and diversity in their fundamental attitudes.
Many of our members also place value on a sustainable, ecological, and consciously green lifestyle in their private lives.
Political Voting Behavior of Consonance (Gleichklang) Members in Comparison
How strongly Consonance members differ, for example, in their political voting behavior from society as a whole can be seen from our survey. In this survey, we asked about the last federal election, who our members would vote for. In dark green, the results of our members are shown; in light green, the actual voting behavior of the general population:
What do we see?
- Singles at Consonance and members of Consonance who are looking for friendships, projects, or communities vote far more often for the Greens and the Left and far less often for the CDU/CSU or AfD.
- Almost no one votes for the FDP. Additionally, 2.5% of Consonance members vote for Volt Deutschland, and 1% each for die PARTEI or the Animal Protection Party.
These results make it clear:
- In online dating at Consonance, predominantly green and left-wing people meet. Conversely, this means that the chances of meeting people with similar political fundamental attitudes in your partner search or friendship search at Consonance are high if you yourself also place yourself in the green or left-wing spectrum.
This is precisely where the strength of an ecologically sustainable and green partner search lies, facilitated by a specialized matchmaking service and online dating platform like Consonance.
As mentioned, political voting behavior is only one aspect:
- Even more important are the related profound core beliefs about how we approach the world and community.
Emancipatory Fundamental Attitudes at Consonance (Gleichklang)
We have surveyed such emancipatory and green fundamental attitudes among our members.
The percentage refers to the proportion of members who affirm and consider the respective topic important:
- 96.1%: Acceptance and equal rights for homosexual and bisexual individuals in all societal, legal, and social areas
- 88.3%: Acceptance and equal rights for transgender and non-binary individuals in all societal, legal, and social areas
- 88.0%: Overcoming the patriarchy and ensuring full gender equality in all societal, legal, and social areas
- 86.3%: Drastic and immediate measures to halt the climate catastrophe
- 73.2%: Ending the use of animals and ensuring animal rights
- 71.0%: Compensation payments and reparations for colonial violence and exploitation
- 69.3%: Stopping Europe’s border closure policies, guaranteeing safe escape routes, and protecting the lives of refugees
On all emancipatory and green topics, Consonance members exhibit attitudes that are many times different from those of the general population:
- The picture that emerges is that of a community that cares about the environment and climate, advocates for diversity and inclusion, wants to make amends for past colonial injustices, and places great importance on protecting those seeking refuge. Members of our dating community do not believe in climate conspiracies.
Green Values Beyond Party-Political Satisfaction at Consonance (Gleichklang)
Incidentally, all this does not mean that all supporters of the Greens are satisfied with the party, or that supporters of the Left are satisfied with the Left:
- Rather, more than half of the supporters of the Greens at Consonance say that the Greens are the lesser evil. It looks similarly for the Left.
So this is a dating community shaped to a high degree by green and social values. Members of our community sometimes choose parties with which they are not really satisfied, but which they still consider the better choice compared to other options.
Another interesting finding:
- Regarding the fundamental substantive issues, there are no fundamental differences in our dating community between supporters of the Greens, the Left, Volt, die PARTEI, or the Animal Protection Party.
Furthermore, past surveys have shown that our members fluctuate particularly strongly between these parties in their voting behavior. This means:
- Between the Greens and the Left, there are typically no fundamental differences among Consonance members. Both are united under an ecologically oriented, emancipatory, prosocial political-social umbrella that especially favors an ecological, emancipatory, and green partner search.
Our co-founder and psychologist Dr. Guido F. Gebauer explains the foundations, theoretical backgrounds, and practice of ecologically oriented Green Dating in a detailed text for those who enjoy reading: Ecological Dating in Foundation, Theory, and Practice.
Consonance (Gleichklang): Specializing in Green, Values-Based Encounters Since 2006
At Consonance, we have specialized since our founding in 2006 in bringing together people with shared ecological, green, and social values in our Green Dating Community. As a matchmaking service for green partner search, it is our goal to enable valuable and sustainable relationships – partnerships, friendships, projects, and communities – that have a positive impact on this world in line with the motto “think globally, act locally.”
Are the environment, climate, animals, diversity, tolerance, and compassion close to your heart?
You have excellent prospects for making your partner search or friendship search a success at Consonance:
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