LOVE (Psychology)---The Romantic Love Test---180 questions---by James Leonard Park

61. Do I like the emotion of being in love?

62. Do I feel tunedlike a harp,
       ready for my Dream Lover to play songs of love?

63. Do I feel setlike a mouse-trap, ready for "my intended" to come along?

64. When I imagine 'falling in love', do I get a warm glow?

65. Am I enjoying primarily my own internal feelings of love?

66. Is 'falling in love' an enjoyable emotional game?

K. Romantic love sometimes depends on manipulation.

67. Do I sometimes wonder what I should do
       to make my beloved 'fall in love' with me?
       Do I strategize various things I could do or say
       to bring about the response I want from my beloved?

68. Have I sometimes played 'hard to get'
       in order to intensify the feelings of my beloved?

69. Do I sometimes refuse to return phone calls
       in order to make my beloved more desperate to please me?

70. Have I sometimes used my sex-appeal
       to get someone to 'fall in love' with me?

71. Do I sometimes play games
       such as pretending to draw back from the relationship
       or trying to stimulate jealousy in my beloved
       in order to intensify his/her feelings for me?

L. Romantic love is like watching a movie.

72. Do I feel I am re-enacting a movie I once saw?
       Am I sometimes trying to re-create a story
       I saw on TV or read in a novel?

73. Am I the stage-manager of my drama of passion and suffering?

74. Do I enjoy allowing myself to fall gloriously in love
       the way it happens in the movies?

75. Am I trying to reproduce a feeling of love that others have had?

76. Do I sometimes filter out negative facts
       to make my love-scene closer to what I imagined beforehand?

77. Does my relationship with _____ sometimes resemble a soap opera?
       Do I sometimes feel that I am pulled along
       by a simple-minded script I cannot escape?

78. Have romantic songs and movies prepared me
       for an ecstatic romantic release?

M. Romantic love is an ecstatic feeling.

79. Does love seem to dominate my whole heart?

80. Am I euphoric whenever I am with _____?

81. Does the thought of _____
       make my heart beat faster or even skip a beat?

82. Does it take my breath away?

83. Do I seem to meltwhen I am in the arms of _____?

84. Do I feel light-headed when we embrace?

85. Do I want to maintain my emotional 'high' as long as possible?

86. Is being assured of love the best emotional fulfillment?

87. Do I sometimes float away in the rapture of love?
       Does love lift me into the clouds?
       Do I seem to be walking on air?

88. Does being in love make me ecstatic?
       Am I a little delirious when I am in love?

89. Does being in love lift me out of humdrum reality?

90. Does love make me feel temporarily insane?
       Do I feel deranged, irrational, irresponsible, slightly crazy?

91. Am I transported to another level of reality when I am with _____?

92. Does something special, even magical, happen when we are together?

93. Do I accept the suffering of love
       because I enjoy the ecstatic feelings so much?

94. Does love raise my emotional level from depression to ecstasy?

95. Is being in love the happiest experience of my life?
       Does it feel so good to be in love that I want to return to love
       (or remain in love) for the rest of my life?

96. Was the peak of my passion just before the open declaration of love?

N. Romantic love is an altered state of consciousness.

97. Does my mind seem to be in a whirl?

98. Does the intensity of my emotion sometimes surprise me?

99. Is the power of my feeling sometimes exhausting?

100. Does being in love feel like intoxication?

101. Does the whole world reflect my emotional state?

102. Does love raise me to new levels of suffering and joy?

103. Am I more concerned with how I feel at the moment
         than about the long-range future?

O. Romantic love sees the beloved as perfect.

104. Do the wonderful things about the one I love
         seem even more wonderful under the influence of romance?

105. Do I sometimes almost worship the one I love?

106. Do I overlook his/her faults or interpret them as charming?
         Do I sometimes transform the negative dimensions
         of my beloved into positive attributes?

107. Do traits that would normally 'turn me off' in other people
         become more attractive in the one I love?

108. Will I later say that I was suffering "selective perception"?
         Did I see my beloved thru rose-colored glasses?

P. Romantic love causes violent mood-swings.

109. Am I subject to abrupt changes of emotion