Do I Have Trust Issues?
What you expect, and what you hold back.
- 18 questions
- About 5 minutes
- Free, no account
- Result shown straight away
Difficulty trusting is almost always learned, and usually learned somewhere it made sense. The question isn't whether you're being unreasonable — it's whether a protection you built for one situation is still running in a different one. This quiz looks at how much you expect to be let down, and at the quieter habit of holding part of yourself in reserve so that it would hurt less if things went wrong.
What it can tell you
- Where your answers sit on expecting to be let down
- Where your answers sit on what you hold back
- What the pattern in your own answers looks like written down
What it cannot
- Diagnose anything, or stand in for a professional opinion
- Tell you what your partner thinks, feels or intended
- Know anything you have not told it
Read this first
This is a self-reflection exercise, not an assessment or a diagnosis. It hears only your account and cannot know whether your caution is well founded — if something has actually happened in your relationship, careful trust is a reasonable response rather than a problem to fix. It describes how things feel now, which may be a particularly difficult stretch. It cannot tell you whether to trust a specific person, and it isn't a substitute for talking to someone if a betrayal is still raw.
About 5 minutes18 questionsNo account, no email
Questions people ask about this test
- How long does the "Do I Have Trust Issues?" test take?
- About 5 minutes. There are 18 questions, you can go back and change an answer, and the full result appears as soon as you finish.
- Do I need an account to see my result?
- No. There is no account, no email address and no payment involved in taking this test or reading the result. An account only exists if you want to keep a result to look at later — it does not unlock a longer version, because there is no longer version.
- Is this a diagnosis?
- No. This is a self-reflection exercise, not an assessment or a diagnosis. It hears only your account and cannot know whether your caution is well founded — if something has actually happened in your relationship, careful trust is a reasonable response rather than a problem to fix. It describes how things feel now, which may be a particularly difficult stretch. It cannot tell you whether to trust a specific person, and it isn't a substitute for talking to someone if a betrayal is still raw. The scoring is plain arithmetic applied to what you report, not an assessment by a clinician.
- Can my partner see my answers?
- No. This test is taken on your own and nothing is shared with anybody. If you want to compare answers with a partner, the separate couples test asks you both the same questions privately and only compares them once you have both finished and both agreed.
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This test only hears your side of it.
The couples test asks you both the same questions separately, then shows you where your answers meet and where they do not. It is free, and neither of you sees the other's answers until you have both finished and both agreed.
Between Us is a reflection tool. This test is not therapy, counselling or a clinical assessment, and it cannot know your situation. If you are in immediate danger, please use these resources instead.