Relationship Trust Quiz Results

Your responses suggest that you have low levels of trust in your partner’s honesty and dependability. In addition, you lack faith in your relationship as a whole. When you or your relationship faces difficulties, you may wonder whether your partner will be responsive and caring enough. As a result, you might not trust that your partner will be able to help work through your problems together. This is a concern worth addressing: Trust in relationships is associated with longer, happier, and more stable relationships.

View these Greater Good videos of John Gottman to learn more about the importance of trust in relationships. According to Gottman and his colleagues, the best relationships avoid the “four horsemen” that signal doom to a partnership: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. To work on repairing trust after a betrayal, check out this essay by psychologist Joshua Coleman.