How Has Your Relationship Affected You?

Understanding your relationship requires taking a closer look at daily interaction with your partner and how it’s affecting you. This quiz will help you recognize behaviors that indicate trouble in your relationship that may be improved with therapy. (Your test results are not stored to maintain confidentiality.)

How Has Your Relationship Affected You?

1. Do you have a higher level of anxiety right before your partner gets home?

2. Do you doubt yourself a lot when you interact with your partner?

3. Do you feel a need to screen what you say and how you speak to your partner for fear that they will criticize you or get angry?

4. Do you often feel confused and upset after talking with your partner?

5. Do you have difficulty relaxing and sleeping at night after interacting with your partner?

6. Is it difficult to make simple decisions independent of your partner?

7. Do you often feel sad or depressed as a result of your relationship?

8. Do you feel like you’re stuck in a relationship that’s not good for you?

9. Have you lost interest in what you used to love doing?

10. Do you spend an excessive amount of time trying to figure out what you could have done to anger your partner?

11. Do you keep quiet in public when you have something to say, for fear of being criticized or humiliated by your partner?

12. Do you hear your partner’s criticism of you in your own head?

13. Does your partner provoke you, leading you to behave in ways that you later feel ashamed of?

14. Has the quality of your relationships with friends and family members decreased since you’ve been in your current relationship?

15. Are you staying with an abusive partner because you believe that no one else would want you?

16. Are you staying with an abusive partner because they have convinced you that you cannot afford to live without their financial support?

17. If you have an illness, disability, or special needs, do you struggle with taking care of your needs because your partner criticizes you or won’t help you?

18. Do you suspect the cause of your more frequent colds, aches and pains, and other ailments may be due to the stress in your relationship?

19. Is your current relationship hurting your children?

20. Are you often confused about whether your partner is trying to help or hurt you?

21. Are you often confused about whether or not you should take the blame for issues in your relationship?

22. Do you sit and stare for long periods of time, unable to make sense of what’s happening in your relationship?

23. Do you spend long periods of time thinking about what happened between you and your partner?

24. Do you spend a great deal of time mentally going over what you wish you could say to your partner, even though you never actually say it?

25. Do you have obsessive thoughts about seeking revenge against your partner?

26. Do you have obsessive thoughts about hurting yourself or your partner?

27. Are you afraid of doing anything that might upset your partner?

28. Do you often feel angry, fearful, or agitated when you are around your partner?

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How Has Your Relationship Affected You?

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How Has Your Relationship Affected You?

1. Do you have a higher level of anxiety right before your partner gets home?

2. Do you doubt yourself a lot when you interact with your partner?

3. Do you feel a need to screen what you say and how you speak to your partner for fear that they will criticize you or get angry?

4. Do you often feel confused and upset after talking with your partner?

5. Do you have difficulty relaxing and sleeping at night after interacting with your partner?

6. Is it difficult to make simple decisions independent of your partner?

7. Do you often feel sad or depressed as a result of your relationship?

8. Do you feel like you’re stuck in a relationship that’s not good for you?

9. Have you lost interest in what you used to love doing?

10. Do you spend an excessive amount of time trying to figure out what you could have done to anger your partner?

11. Do you keep quiet in public when you have something to say, for fear of being criticized or humiliated by your partner?

12. Do you hear your partner’s criticism of you in your own head?

13. Does your partner provoke you, leading you to behave in ways that you later feel ashamed of?

14. Has the quality of your relationships with friends and family members decreased since you’ve been in your current relationship?

15. Are you staying with an abusive partner because you believe that no one else would want you?

16. Are you staying with an abusive partner because they have convinced you that you cannot afford to live without their financial support?

17. If you have an illness, disability, or special needs, do you struggle with taking care of your needs because your partner criticizes you or won’t help you?

18. Do you suspect the cause of your more frequent colds, aches and pains, and other ailments may be due to the stress in your relationship?

19. Is your current relationship hurting your children?

20. Are you often confused about whether your partner is trying to help or hurt you?

21. Are you often confused about whether or not you should take the blame for issues in your relationship?

22. Do you sit and stare for long periods of time, unable to make sense of what’s happening in your relationship?

23. Do you spend long periods of time thinking about what happened between you and your partner?

24. Do you spend a great deal of time mentally going over what you wish you could say to your partner, even though you never actually say it?

25. Do you have obsessive thoughts about seeking revenge against your partner?

26. Do you have obsessive thoughts about hurting yourself or your partner?

27. Are you afraid of doing anything that might upset your partner?

28. Do you often feel angry, fearful, or agitated when you are around your partner?

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