Should your nickname be Madame Excuses? Now, don’t get us wrong — not all love advice from your friends is good advice, and no one knows your relationships better than you. But, if you find yourself constantly making excuses for your man’s bad behavior, and accepting low romantic standards, it might be time for a spiritual makeover!
Take our quiz to find out if you’re making excuses for his lame behavior, then read our cures for your Madame Full-of-Excuses syndrome after the quiz!
1) You’ve just broken up with the biggest jerk in the world, even though you still have feelings for him. Your girlfriends call and ask you to get out of bed and have a drink with them at a nice, intimate house party. You:
a) Decide to go, but feel like no one at the party is quite like “him.”
b) Decline the offer. It takes you time to heal. Besides, ain’t nothing wrong with all-day sleeping.
c) Accept the offer, because who cares about stinky boys anyway?
2) You and your love interest have just had a bad fight. He has violated your one sacred rule for the umpteenth time, and hasn’t offered you an apology for the past week. You:
a) Talk to him and apologize, because at the end of the day, you’re usually the one that causes him to act up.
b) Never call him, or even speak of him to your girlfriends, ever again.
c) Call him and demand that he apologize for his misgivings, but you don’t take him back.
3) Your love interest, who seems like a first-rate guy, has promised to call you tomorrow. It is almost two weeks later, and he has just now sent you a brief text, so you:
a) Ignore the text and give up on love in order to save yourself this kind of trifling headache.
b) Understand that he’s been busy at work, so you savor the text and welcome him in.
c) Cuss him out.
d) Interrogate him as to why he hasn’t contacted you in a while.
4) As a married woman, the best way to describe your partnership philosophy would be:
a) I love my partner without condition. Even if my partner cheats once in a while, my commitment vows hold more weight than his weaknesses.
b) I do not believe in partnering—just dating. Love hurts too much.
c) I love my partner, with a few conditions, e.g.: “don’t use me & don’t abuse me!”
5) It’s been several years since you and “the one” have known each other, but you seem to want things that he doesn’t: for example, marriage, kids, a family, a suburban life, travel, vacations together, or maybe even just joining a couples weight loss program. When you realize just how opposed your views are from his, you:
a) Feel stuck and cry for days, hoping one day your love interest will feel sorry for you.
b) Smooth the tension, and think about ways to like what ‘your darling’ likes.
c) Get rid of this person. After all, how can this person be “the one” if you two never agree on any one thing?
d) Encourage your love interest to compromise, or else you’ll cut your losses and walk away.
Congratulations! Now that you’ve taken the quiz, score yourself…
