Quiz Part 2 — What’s your LOVE, INC. specialty: Matchmaking, Mediation or Revenge?

In Love, Inc. Kali is the resident expert on matchmaking and relationship start-up. She’s a thrill-of-the-chase kind of girl, and the only thing she likes as much as flirting with a new guy, is setting someone else up. If you need help finding a good match, or attracting someone you already know, Kali's your girl.

Do you have what it takes to be a matchmaker?

a) Does it stress you out when the dryer eats one of your socks, destroying the pair?

b) Are you disgusted by people who fail to recognize flirting a valuable life skill?

c) Do you consider Valentine’s Day a national holiday and start planning for it in October?

d) Can you usually predict which of your friends’ relationships will last?

e) Do you want Cupid’s job?

Answer Key:

If you answered “yes” to three or more of the above, you’re a matcher in the making.

Matchmakers need to have a lot of confidence, even a hint of arrogance, to convince people they know what’s best in the romance department. Matchmakers get their buzz by taking two seemingly random pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and watching them click them together. Matchers believe a couple is greater than the sum of its parts. Making a match is magical—when it works. When it doesn’t, watch out. People take a bad set-up so personally!

Matchmaking used to be well-respected, and still is in some cultures, but many see it as meddling. It takes a string of bad relationships or a long stint withering in the desert of singledom to inspire an appreciation for a good matchmaker. Online dating is all well and good, but computer formulae can’t bring wisdom, knowledge, experience, and intuition into the equation.
Once you’re on top of your game, you’ll be everyone’s favorite bridesmaid. But in the early days, subtlety is a matchmaker’s best friend. Bring your unsuspecting victims together at an event, introduce them, and fade into the background. If it works out, you’ll get half the credit. If it doesn’t, you’ll get all of the blame. It’s all in a day’s work.

Speaking of work, your natural people skills, powers of perception, and endless optimism will serve you well in any career. You’ll shine in corporate headhunting or as the host of any reality show about dating.