Love Test

Questions:

1. If you have to ask your mate if he or she loves you, something is wrong with your relationship.
   a)TRUE b) FALSE
    
2. What is the most common problem for couples in love today?
   a) SEX b) MONEY c) INTIMACY
    
3. Who breaks off love affairs more frequently?
   a) MEN b) WOMEN
    
4. In a marriage or close relationship, is it normal for one partner not to be sexually attracted to the other for extended periods of time?
   a) YES b) NO
    
5. Who has more sex in their love life?
   a) SINGLE PEOPLE b) MARRIED PEOPLE
    
6. Are people afraid of falling in love?
   a)YES b) NO
    
7. Jealousy is more likely to be a sign of
   a) LOVE b) INSECURITY c) COMPETITIVENESS
    
8. Flirting openly in front of your mate is a danger signal
   a) TRUE b) FALSE
    
9. Who lives longer?
   a) MARRIED PEOPLE b) SINGLE PEOPLE
    
10. Can you be in love with two people at the same time?
    a) YES b) NO
     
11. Do people expect too much from marriage?
    a) YES b) NO
     
12. Who copes better with loneliness or the absence of love?
    a) MEN b) WOMEN
     
13. Commitment is essential to a good love relationship.
    a) TRUE b) FALSE
     
14. What is the main source of knowledge about love and sexual matters for youngsters growing up today?
    a) MOTHER b) FATHER c) READING d) FRIENDS

Answers from our panel of psychiatrists:

1. B - There is nothing wrong with asking your mate for love. Having to ask certainly does not devalue it. Many spouses feels rejected when they have to ask for love, and so they stop giving it as well. That’s the beginning of a marital rift.
    
2. C – Without intimacy, there isn’t any real love, By intimacy, it means that the sharing of feelings and not just information. Couples who are not intimate talk about having their car fixed and what the children did in school, but they never really let each other know if they are frightened or happy or unhappy, nor do they know, or care, how their partners feel.
    
3. B – Women tends to break off love relationship twice as often as males. This fact, based upon careful research, is rather surprising; in our society, men generally have been painted as the heartbreakers.
    
4. A – In almost every marriage, there is a period of perhaps a few months when there’s a decline in sexual interest. Why, is because they are preoccupied with business, kids, in-laws or other things often interfering with sexual interest. In general, the expectation that sexual or romantic love will last throughout the marriage is a myth. People have to work at improving their sexual relationship
    
5. B – Married people have more sex both in quantity and quality. There’s more noise made about single sex, but married people get to know each other, get to be more intimate, friendlier, more understanding of each other’s sexual needs. Their relationship may not always be as passionate as single sex, but it is mare long lasting, more frequent, more loving, more care taking and in general more satisfying
    
6. B – Most people want love more than anything else in the world. However, there are people who are afraid of love. People like that will always ask you to introduce them to new partners. But either they antagonize their partner or lose interest in a partner who cares for them. So chronically unhappy and looking for love. If that seems to be happening to you, the chances are you are doing it to yourself and you should face that.
    
7. A – Why should you even want to compete, unless you loved and value the person in question? Certainly older people, of course, may fear the loss of someone who is seen as irreplaceable and for them insecurity may be equally important. But in most cases love comes first.
    
8. A – Flirting is always dangerous in a relationship. A person flirts because he or she wants love. To make flirting unnecessary, a couple should try to improve the affection they show one another
    
9. A – As a group, people who are married or involved in a happy love relationship live longer, healthier lives than single people. They are less likely to have accidents, infection diseases, and even cancer. And they are much less likely to have a mental illness. In short, love is good for your health.
   
10. B – When people are truly in love, they are reacting irrationally to certain qualities they think they see in the loved person. Because this requires so much of an emotional investment, most people seem able to do it with only one person at a time
     
11. A – Most people expect too much and give too little. In part, this dates back to the middle ages and to romantic myths about troubadours and knights, We still seem to feel that our needs will be magically taken care of by our partners, perhaps throughout life. And these expectations are unrealistic.
     
12. B – Loneliness is tough on everyone, but men have more problems coping with it than women. Men are more apt to show signs of stress such as becoming sick, depressed and alcoholic.
      
13. A – For there to be a love relationship, there has to be an understanding of what one may expect from that relationship, and what one is willing to give to it. This commitment may vary from couple to couple, but it must always be there.
     
14. D – Friends with reading close behind. Psychiatrists advice us that if parents wait for their children to ask them questions about love and sex, its usually too late. By not talking about the subject, parents create a negative feeling that children sense and to which they react. It is the parents’ responsibility to teach them about love and sex.