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How Well Do You Know Your Partner? 15-Question Quiz

A couples quiz that tests how current your picture of your partner actually is — fifteen questions about their present, not their history.

⏱️ 3 min

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One question per screen. No account required. Your answers stay on your device.

Possible results (5)

  • Current and Detailed

    You could answer almost everything specifically and today. Why this is maintenance rather than a trophy.

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  • Mostly Current

    A solid map with a few blind spots — and blind spots cluster rather than scatter.

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  • Drifted

    You know who they were and are guessing about who they are now. Common, and fixable by asking.

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  • Out of Date

    Most answers were guesses. A real problem, an unglamorous fix, and the mistake people make attempting it.

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  • Living Separate Lives

    Almost nothing could be answered. The several very different situations that produce this score.

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Before you start

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What a love map is

The term is John Gottman's. A love map is the mental model you hold of your partner's inner world — what is worrying them this month, who is annoying them at work, what they are quietly hoping for, what they would change if they could change one thing. It is not affection and it is not history. It is current information.

Gottman's argument, drawn from decades of watching couples in a lab, is that this is one of the more reliable markers of how a relationship is doing. Couples who keep the map current handle conflict better, partly because knowing what someone is actually carrying makes their reactions legible instead of baffling.

The part worth knowing is that it decays silently. Nobody notices the map going out of date, because nothing announces it. You keep answering from a model you built three years ago and it keeps mostly working, right up until it does not.

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How this quiz is scored

Fifteen questions about your partner, and for each one you say how well you could actually answer it right now — specifically today, roughly, guessing, or not at all.

The scoring rewards specificity rather than confidence. "Roughly, but it might be out of date" scores as a partial answer on purpose, because being approximately right about someone you live with is the state most long-term couples are actually in, and it is the state that produces the wrong answer at the wrong moment.

No score here is a verdict on the relationship. A very new couple should score badly, and a couple in a brutal year with small children usually does.

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The mistake people make with the result

Do not take this to your partner as evidence. The impulse after a poor score is to present it, which turns a piece of information about you into an accusation about the relationship, and the conversation goes exactly where you would expect.

The repair is boring and it works: ask, then listen without turning it into a project. Not an interview, not a scheduled check-in with an agenda. One real question at a time, and no follow-up plan.

If you want the questions ready-made, the 150 questions to ask your partner has them sorted by how much they ask of the person answering. If you would rather look at whether you two fit on the structural things instead, that is the compatibility test.

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What this cannot tell you

Whether your partner knows you. That is a separate quiz and only they can take it, and a large gap in either direction is itself worth noticing.

It also cannot tell you whether the relationship is in trouble. Not knowing is usually a maintenance failure rather than a caring failure — people who are exhausted stop asking long before they stop caring. This is a self-assessment and not a clinical instrument, and if what you actually suspect is that the two of you have stopped reaching each other, a couples therapist is a better use of an hour than a score.

Frequently Asked Questions

How well should you know your partner?

Well enough to answer what is going on with them this month, not just who they have been. That distinction is the whole point of the exercise. Long-together couples usually know each other's history perfectly and each other's current week barely at all, because history is fixed and the present has to be re-learned. There is no correct score, and a new couple scoring poorly means almost nothing. What matters is the direction it moves over a year.

What are good "how well do you know me" questions?

The ones with a current answer rather than a permanent one. "What is your favorite color" is a fact you learned once and it tests nothing; "what is worrying you most at the moment" has a different answer in March than it did in January, and that is why it is worth asking. The fifteen in this quiz are built that way deliberately. If you want a longer set to actually ask out loud rather than answer about someone, the 150 questions to ask your partner is the tool for that.

Is this a couples quiz we can take together?

You can, and comparing is the most useful way to use it, but take it separately first. Each of you answers about the other, then you compare where each of you was guessing. The interesting part is almost never the totals — it is finding that one of you was confident about something the other would have answered completely differently. Doing it in the same room, out loud, turns it into a performance and people round their answers up.

What is the 7-7-7 rule for couples?

A social media rule of thumb suggesting a date every seven days, a night away every seven weeks, and a longer trip every seven months. There are several incompatible versions of it in circulation and no research behind the specific numbers. The idea underneath — that time together disappears unless it is deliberately protected — is fair enough. It does not address what this quiz measures, though: you can keep every scheduled date night and still be running on a three-year-old picture of who your partner is.

I scored badly. Does that mean the relationship is in trouble?

Not on its own. A low score most often means a hard stretch rather than a failing relationship — a new baby, a demanding job, an illness, a period where both of you were surviving rather than paying attention. Not knowing is usually a maintenance failure, not a caring failure. What would be worth taking seriously is a low score combined with not particularly wanting to know the answers, because that is a different thing altogether.

What should I do with the result?

Ask, and do not explain why you are asking. The common mistake is showing your partner the score, which converts information about you into an accusation about them and reliably starts the wrong conversation. Pick one question you could not answer and ask it, at an ordinary moment, with no follow-up plan attached. Then do it again next week. The map is rebuilt by repetition and not by a single long conversation about the state of the relationship.