Our Method:
360-degree™ Questionnaire

Topic 1: Starting Conditions This topic explores how the relationship began, including how you met, what drew you together, and how timing, readiness, and commitment took shape early on. It also considers the early emotional and social context—how the connection felt at the start and how practical realities like living situation, distance, and outside responsibilities influenced the relationship.

Topic 2: Early Patterns and Dynamics This topic focuses on how the relationship functioned day to day in its early stages, including communication habits, responsiveness, and the development of closeness and routines. It also looks at early intimacy and conflict, exploring how disagreements emerged, how they were handled, and how repair typically occurred.

Topic 3: Values, Habits, and Stressors This topic examines values, priorities, habits, and personal stressors that shape daily life in the relationship. It looks at belief alignment, lifestyle patterns, health, and ongoing pressures that can quietly influence stability, connection, and emotional availability over time.

Topic 4: Individual and Life Context This topic places the relationship within each partner’s broader life context, including personal characteristics, self-perception, and practical circumstances. It also considers education, work, income, and financial stability, helping ground the relationship in real-world conditions without judgment.

Topic 1 : Prior Relationship and Sexual History This topic explores the romantic and sexual experiences each partner brings into the relationship, including early milestones and how comfort with intimacy developed over time. It also looks at past patterns around exclusivity, non-monogamy, and time spent single, helping clarify expectations around intimacy and commitment.

Topic 2: Prior Relationship Experiences, Endings, and Comparison This topic focuses on how past relationships were experienced, including conflict, infidelity, breakups, and emotional recovery. It also examines how previous partners are compared during dating, since these comparisons often shape expectations, sensitivities, and trust in new relationships.

Topic 3: Family Background, Childhood Environment, and Early Attachment This topic examines early family and childhood environments that shape how each partner approaches trust, closeness, and emotional support. It looks at caregiver relationships, household stability, and early stressors that influence attachment patterns and emotional regulation later in life.

Topic 4: Boundaries, Dealbreakers, and Compatibility Limits This topic focuses on personal boundaries, non-negotiables, and the limits of compatibility within a relationship. It explores where flexibility exists versus where differences in values, lifestyle, intimacy, or practical realities are likely to define whether a relationship can continue.

Topic 1: Social Energy, Emotional Expression, and Daily Style This topic explores how each partner typically shows up socially and emotionally in everyday life. It looks at communication style, decision-making, structure, and how each person responds to pressure, change, and unexpected situations, helping clarify differences in pacing, adaptability, and daily rhythm.

Topic 2: Values, Motivation, and Responses to Challenge This topic focuses on how each partner approaches effort, responsibility, values, and setbacks. It examines motivation, persistence, moral reasoning, boundaries, and leadership, revealing how differences under pressure shape trust, fairness, and long-term compatibility.

Topic 3: Thinking Style, Learning, and Emotional Processing This topic examines how each partner thinks, learns, and emotionally processes experiences. It looks at problem-solving style, social awareness, emotional recovery, and trust, helping clarify differences in mental flexibility, resilience, and interpersonal understanding.

Topic 4: Sexual Openness, Communication, and Initiation Patterns This topic focuses on sexual comfort, communication, and how desire is expressed and initiated. It explores openness, pleasure, and how mismatches are navigated, clarifying how sexual connection and responsiveness influence intimacy and satisfaction.

Topic 1: Sexual Desire, Satisfaction, and Sexual Communication This topic explores how sexual connection is experienced and communicated within the relationship. It looks at desire, initiation, satisfaction, challenges, and boundaries, helping clarify how sexual needs are expressed, discussed, and responded to between partners.

Topic 2: Shared Routines, Time Together, and Everyday Closeness This topic focuses on how partners share daily life and maintain closeness outside of sex. It looks at sleep routines, shared time at home and outside, and everyday expressions of affection and presence that shape emotional closeness.

Topic 3: Communication, Responsiveness, and Trust Signals This topic examines everyday communication patterns, especially texting and calling, and how responsiveness is experienced. It also explores how communication relates to boundaries, intimacy, trust, and emotional reassurance or tension.

Topic 4: Shared Activities, Time Together, and Independence This topic focuses on how time is spent together and apart, across routines, hobbies, and social life. It looks at comfort with independence, satisfaction with shared activities, and how lifestyle balance supports or strains the relationship.

Topic 1: Honesty, Boundaries, Accountability, and Repair This topic focuses on how honesty, boundaries, and accountability are handled when trust is tested. It looks at how boundaries and cheating are defined, how lies or secrecy are addressed, and whether conflict leads to accountability, repair, or repeated patterns.

Topic 2: Communication About Friends, Family, Beliefs, and Values This topic explores how partners communicate about meaningful personal and shared areas of life, including friends, family, beliefs, and values. It looks at how differences are discussed, how conflict is handled, and how shared responsibilities like money or possessions are coordinated.

Topic 3: Communication About Finances, Work, and Future Direction This topic focuses on how partners talk about finances, work, and future plans. It examines who initiates these conversations, how disagreements are navigated, and whether planning and decision-making feel collaborative or tense.

Topic 4: Everyday Conversation and Social Planning This topic examines everyday communication and how partners plan social activities together. It looks at whether casual conversations and planning feel balanced and connected, or marked by recurring tension, disagreement, or avoidance.

Topic 1: Emotional Closeness, Attraction, and Relationship Meaning This topic explores how emotionally connected, supported, and close each partner feels in the relationship. It looks at emotional availability, different forms of closeness, admiration, attraction, and whether partners feel valued, understood, and fulfilled over time.

Topic 2: Boundaries, Social Life, and Outside Influences This topic focuses on how partners navigate boundaries, independence, and outside relationships. It examines social expectations, time apart and together, attraction, jealousy, and trust, and how these factors support or strain emotional security.

Topic 3: Life Pressures, Priorities, and Emotional Strain This topic examines how external pressures and emotional strain affect the relationship. It looks at work, finances, health, attraction to others, unresolved past connections, and how these influences shape stability, commitment, and closeness.

Topic 4: Emotional Safety, Distance, and Relationship Viability This topic focuses on emotional safety, distance, and long-term uncertainty in the relationship. It explores feelings of disconnection, recurring problems, thoughts about ending the relationship, and whether partners are willing to invest in repair and reconnection.