Trust Quiz for Couples

How this trust assessment works

Answer eight questions about trust-related moments — how you react to silence, how comfortable you are with your partner's independence, whether promises get kept. Your answers convert into a percentage score with a plain-language read on where trust stands.

Trust is built from specifics, not a feeling

"Do you trust your partner" is a hard question to answer honestly in one shot, because trust isn't really one feeling — it's a collection of smaller confidences: that they're telling the truth, that they'll follow through, that their independence isn't a threat to the relationship. This assessment breaks trust into those pieces instead of asking for a single verdict, since most people find it easier to be honest about a specific moment than about an abstract feeling.

One pattern worth noticing in your own answers: the need to check up on a partner — their phone, their location, their social media — usually says more about the current state of trust than almost anything else on this list. It's less about whether checking is "allowed" and more about what the urge to check reveals about how secure the trust actually feels day to day.

Low trust isn't always about your partner

Sometimes a low score reflects real reasons to be cautious. Other times, it reflects anxiety carried over from a previous relationship rather than anything your current partner has actually done. Both are worth exploring, but they call for different responses — which is exactly the kind of thing worth talking through with your partner directly, or with a counselor if it feels bigger than a conversation can resolve.

One useful gut check: try separating what your partner has actually done from what you're worried they might do. Both are worth paying attention to, but they're different things, and mixing them together tends to make an honest conversation harder to have.

Trust alongside the rest of the relationship

Trust rarely moves on its own — it's usually tied closely to how well a couple communicates and resolves disagreement when it comes up. Our Couple Communication Score and Conflict Resolution Tool both touch on patterns that often sit underneath a low trust score, and can be a useful next step if this result points to something worth digging into further.

Anxious attachment versus an actual reason to worry

Not every low score reflects a partner's behavior — some reflects a pattern of anxiety that would show up with almost any partner, healthy or not. If checking your partner's phone or location tends to happen regardless of anything they've actually done, that's worth exploring on its own, separately from whatever this specific score comes out to.