Gottman – Self-Test: Do You Lead Parallel Lives?

Step 1 of 2

Read each statement and fill in the appropriate TRUE or FALSE bubble.

1. We don’t eat together as much as we used to.
2. Sometimes it seems we are roommates rather than a couple.
3. We have fewer friends in common than we used to.
4. We seem to do a lot more things separately.
5. It seems that we have fewer and fewer interests in common.
6. Sometimes we can go for quite a while without ever talking about our lives.
7. Our lives are more parallel than connected.
8. We often don’t talk about how our separate days went.
9. We don’t spend very much time together anymore.
10. We spend a lot of our free time apart.
11. We don’t set aside much time just to talk.
12. I don’t think we know each other very well anymore.
13. We don’t have dinner together very much anymore.
14. We rarely go out on dates together.
15. A lot of good times these days are with people other than each other.
16. We seem to be avoiding each other.
17. We are like two passing ships, going our separate ways.