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Le partenaire avec qui tu sors est romantique et son humour te séduit.

Le partenaire avec qui tu sors est romantique et son humour te séduit.
The partner with whom you are going out is romantic and his humor seduces you.
From Lesson 241:Relative clauses with prepositions (à qui, avec qui)·French

Questions & Answers about Le partenaire avec qui tu sors est romantique et son humour te séduit.

Why do we use avec qui here? Can I just say avec que?
No, you must use qui. When you are using a preposition (like avec, pour, or à) and referring to a person, you always use qui. You cannot use que after a preposition. While you could technically say avec lequel, avec qui is much more common and natural when talking about people.
In English, we say "the partner you are going out with". Can I put avec at the end of the clause in French?
No, in French, you can never end a clause or a sentence with a preposition. The verb phrase is sortir avec (to go out with). When you turn this into a relative clause, the preposition avec must move to the front, right before the pronoun qui.
Since son humour means "his humor" here, would it change to sa humour if we were talking about a female partner?
It would actually stay son humour! Remember that in French, possessive adjectives (like son, sa, ses) must match the gender of the thing being possessed, not the person who owns it. Because humour is a masculine noun, it always takes son, whether it's "his humor" or "her humor".
Why is the word order te séduit instead of séduit te?
In French, object pronouns like te (which means "you" in this context) are placed directly before the conjugated verb they belong to. This is different from English, where we put the object after the verb ("seduces you").

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