My wife and I met on True and we were the top ranked match across the country. I met the second highest lady, and she was a really nice lady, too. The third best I talked to multiple times, but never met.
All three women were intelligent (each had gone to school through full-ride scholarships), Christian, and conservative.
Meeting on “things in common” is, at best, only a quarter of “what matters.” So you both like U2, BBQ Ribs, and working out. What does any of that tell you about how you both will relate and work with each other in the ways that most matter? The answer is, “it doesn't.”
The personality-based matching is best. Combining it with the other provides icing on the cake.
I was married to my first wife for 35 years, about a year after the divorce my daughter came over and told me about Match.Com and helped me set up an account. I went on a couple of dates that were less than spectacular and then I met Mrs. B, a little red haired, redneck Texas girl that loves to hunt and fish, hell she even had her own 4x4 truck, a bass boat and a little red Trans-Am. On our fifth date she walked me out to the truck and turned a peck on the cheek into an absolute heart melting kiss. We’ve been married a little over 3 years now and are having a blast. She’s loving the ranch life and I’m loving her. I wish I’d met her 40 years ago.