Are You Open to Finding Love?

How ready are you to meet the man or woman of your dreams? Wouldn't it be fabulous if that person just appeared by your side? Finding love can happen in the most surprising places, but you have to be able to read the signals of the world around you and be open to chance. The more chance meetings you open yourself up to, the more likely you are to find love.

Our quiz will help you discover just how open you are to a chance meeting -- a meeting that could lead to romance. There are 10 questions in both the men's and women's version. After taking the quiz, compare your score with the analysis to see how you rate for romantic chance-taking.

From extensive research we know that "chance" can be created, cultivated, and to some degree "controlled." You have to take the first step in being open to chance. This quiz will tell you if you have some deep-seated feelings or habits that you may need to change in order to let chance into your life. Good luck!

The Chance Meetings Quiz

This quiz is based on the findings from the book "Chance Meetings That Tied the Knot: Finding Love When Least Expected," by Jan Newman. The book recounts 24 true stories about people from every imaginable background and circumstance. Each story is a heartwarming example of how one can increase the odds of having a chance meeting with the goal of finding true and enduring love. These stories further illustrate that circumstances, choices and personal awareness are key in producing such a chance meeting. At the core of this book is a new heightened awareness that in our everyday lives, love is waiting.

Take the quiz:

Go to the women's quiz

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Jan Newman, author of "Chance Meetings That Tied the Knot: Finding Love When Least Expected," has spent the past 30 years facilitating conversations about new ideas, new products and services in her role as a focus group moderator. Her research projects always have her crisscrossing the country, allowing her to collect intriguing stories of people's chance meetings. The concept for the book came from a chance meeting in 1968. She met her husband unexpectedly and has been truly, madly, deeply in love with him ever since. Her web site is ChanceMeetingsThatTiedTheKnot.com

Joyce Hoffspiegel, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Palo Alto, California. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University’s Institute for Cognitive Studies researching social cognitive development, particularly the role that feelings play when we first form an impression of a new person. She specializes in psychotherapy with high-functioning professionals in leadership positions. She also runs two insight-oriented psychotherapy groups for clients who want to sharpen their relationship skills and gain deeper insight into their own personalities. Her web site is hoffspiegel.org

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