Are you a match?

For this puzzle, the object is to take away six matches and leave two squares.

OK, the answer.
The issue is never with the problem, but with the way you think about it. In time this is possible. What happens at the start is that you look at the issue of two squares as if they have to be the same size. You will probably rack your brain trying to find a clever, easy or even cheating solution. What you don't do is look at the squares as two different sizes. So here is the answer.

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