Find out now if this is the romance of your life

ake this quiz — it could save you months of heartbreak ... or earn you years of bliss.

Can you tell the difference between the sort of deep affection you can build on for a lifetime, and the sexual electricity that may cloud your thinking for a time — and then pass? In theory, it couldn’t be easier. But in practice, there is nothing like a strong attraction to turn a usually clear-thinking person into a muddle-headed mess.

Read each question in this quiz and quickly — without too much hesitation or consideration — select one of the answers to it.

1) You’re tempted to be unfaithful. Which of the following fall-outs would influence you most?

a. Your man would be hurt.

b. He’d be very angry if he found out.

c. He might leave you if he found out.

d. He might decide to cheat, too.

2) Your man asks you to visit his parents. You:

a. Make an excuse not to.

b. Go reluctantly because you can’t think of a good enough excuse not to.

c. Go — but expect him to repay the compliment with your parents.

d. Go willingly, eager to get to know more about the one you love.

3) Your man, in a mellow, reminiscent mood, starts talking of the past. You are:

a. Interested.

b. Bored.

c. Jealous.

d. Angry.

4) You’d spend an unexpected windfall of cash on:

a. A candlelight dinner for two.

b. A surprise for your loved one.

c. Something you’ve wanted for ages.

d. Someone less fortunate than you or your partner.

5) You’ve had a row and relations have been chilly. Suddenly your partner gets cuddly again. You feel:

a. Irritated.

b. Angry.

c. Relieved.

d. Affectionate — though against your better judgement.

6) You are in bed with ‘flu. You want your man to be:

a. Sympathetic.

b. Caring.

c. Still interested in romance.

d. A million kilometres away.

7) You find your partner’s funny little habits:

a. Irritating.

b. Infuriating.

c. Tolerable.

d. Endearing.

8) When you’re on your own, you:

a. Enjoy yourself.

b. Get bored easily.

c. Miss your man.

d. Worry what he’s up to.

9) At friends’ weddings, you feel:

a. Apprehensive.

b. Sentimental.

c. Happy.

d. Depressed.

10) Since this special man’s come into your life, you’ve:

a. Dropped most of your old friends.

b. Kept up with them.

c. Kept up with old friends and made new ones through your partner.

11) When you’re apart for a couple of weeks, you:

a. Ring or write daily.

b. Ring or write once in a while.

c. Put life on hold until you can get together again.

12) When you’re apart for a reasonable amount of time, you most often:

a. Daydream about when you will next be together.

b. Think about sex.

c. Forget your partner.

d. Worry if he’s misbehaving.

13) You’re offered a wonderful new post that’s a promotion from your present designation, with high job satisfaction and a big pay packet to boot. But taking it would make it impossible to continue with your relationship. You:

a. Turn it down immediately.

b. Think hard, and probably turn it down in the end.

c. Accept it without hesitation.

d. Think hard, then accept.

e. Can’t say whether you would or would not take it.

14) If your partner — suddenly alive to the wonders of being with you — hired a sky-writer to paint the sky with your praises, you’d be:

a. Thrilled.

b. Turned on.

c. Touched.

d. Cross.

e. Embarrassed.

15) You like films that make you:

a. Cry.

b. Laugh.

c. Frightened.

d. Excited.

So, where can your relationship go?

165 points to 245 points: You’re in love. There may be physical attraction, too, but there’s a firm basis of the genuine thing that, given reasonable care and attention, will grow as the years go by and will survive when the first flush of passion has cooled. Lucky you. Enjoy!

80 points to 160 points: There’s a lot of lust in your relationship, though that does not mean there isn’t love as well. If you’re looking for more than short-term thrills, look deep for respect and affection and deliberately bring them to the surface. If you leave it too long to put in some groundwork, there may be nothing left when the animal magnetism begins to fade.

Upto 75 points: Lust seems to be the strongest motivating force in your relationship. This does not mean that it will not evolve eventually into something more meaningful. Just don’t rush up the aisle while things are still at this stage between you both. Give it time to see if the novelty wears off, or if things gradually build into something more substantial.

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