A MARITAL QUESTIONNAIRE
FOR COUPLES CONSIDERING THERAPY
These questions can help identify whether your relationship may benefit from couple’s therapy. This is not a medical diagnosis, but rather reflects the most common issues I have identified in my work with couples.
- Do you often feel lonely?
- Do you have a feeling of disrespect or contempt towards your partner or does your partner express these feeling towards you?
- Do you often think that the solution to a problem would be for your partner to change, but that you yourself don’t need to change?
- Do you avoid sharing your dreams and desires with your partner?
- Do you often feel controlled by your partner, or has your partner expressed to you that he/she feels controlled by you?
- Do you keep secrets from your partner?
- Do you often feel that you and your partner live parallel lives?
- Do you or your partner avoid having intimacy?
- Do you often feel irritated when you are with your partner?
- Do you feel that you and your partner lost the ability to have fun together?
- Do you have difficulties discussing problems with your partner because you both tend to get critical and defensive with each other?
- Do you feel embarrassed when you are with your partner in public?
- Do you or your partner avoid apologizing to each other at all cost?
- Do you feel unsafe with your partner emotionally or physically?
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