I usually avoid whatever quiz or meme is currently making the rounds of gay blogland, mostly out of sheer laziness, but when my boyfriend took the plunge and answered the 20 Questions to a Better Relationship Quiz that’s been everywhere lately, I had to go take it myself and see who the hell I am.

So, without further delay… I am, just barely, a Player:

You are an XPYT–Expressive Practical Physical Taker. This makes you a Player.

You are clever, sexy and sexually oriented. You know what you want and how to get it. You command attention in a room of strangers, as your charisma, your personality and your spending habits are all oriented toward making an impression on your target sex. You pay attention to details.

You reel people in easily, but have a harder time keeping them around since you are just as demanding in a long term relationship as you are on a night out. Combine your demanding nature with the fact that you’re hard to keep up with and easily bored, and you get a recipe for problems with fidelity.

In a conflict, you’re brutal — you know how to unleash one cutting remark that turns a normal fight into a brawl or a breakup. Your general attitude is you just don’t have time for fighting — if you feel like your current partner doesn’t understand you, you know you can find another one.

You may see yourself in a parent and dislike his/her choices, so you want to avoid them for yourself. You feel confined by social pressures, both to pair up and stay paired. It will (and should) take you years to settle (and for you, it may really feel like you’re settling).

Please use a condom.

Of the 35,728 people who have taken this quiz, 7% are this type.

I think it’s pretty damn accurate, actually. I guess only Patrick and my friends could say for sure though. I do know I’m demanding, unrelenting in a conflict, and definitely know what I want and how to get it. Too bad I don’t know how to get it RIGHT NOW, huh?

I also have to mention that I was only one point away from being a Firebrand, and on a different day I’m pretty sure I would have fallen just barely on that side of the line instead. So, for the full effect of me (lucky you!), I’m pretty damn close to:

You are an XSYT–Expressive Sentimental Physical Taker. This makes you a Firebrand.

You are volatile, sexy and sexually driven. You’re magnetic and fascinating, but you don’t really enjoy playing the field — it makes you nervous and preys on your insecurites. But when you fall for someone you fall hard.

You tend to over-analyze things, so the slightest comment or action from your significant other can send you into a tailspin. You crave attention and validation from your loved ones, so if your friends don’t like your partner or your partner doesn’t like your friends it makes you suffer. Unfortunately the two are often in conflict - you have excellent insight with your friends, but in a relationship you are blind. Trust your friends!

You blow hot and cold, with big highs and big lows. This makes the bad times very bad but the good times very good, so you tend to stay in a problem relationship much longer than you should. But when a relationship fails, you hold a grudge. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but make sure your grudge doesn’t cloud your vision the other way!

What would help you most in your relationships is confidence. You need someone who can help you feel good about yourself and not worse.

You can be needy and jealous. Fortunately you are cute as hell.

Of the 35,760 people who have taken this quiz, 5.9% are this type.

Of course I’m too messed up complicated to be only one type.

Thank God they both say “sexy;” I’d hate to find out I’ve been playing against type all these years.