Responsibility
Naming choices, accepting impact, and participating in repair without excuses or blame.
Before you decide whether to stay, leave, or give it more time, see what your partner’s behavior is actually telling you.
Private self-reflection
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What you’ll see
An apology can be sincere. It still cannot rebuild trust by itself. This check helps you examine the behaviors that make repair visible over time.
Naming choices, accepting impact, and participating in repair without excuses or blame.
Clear answers, voluntary correction, and mutually agreed transparency—not reassurance alone.
Listening, recognizing impact, and responding with care when the conversation is uncomfortable.
Reducing secrecy and ambiguity while protecting each person’s autonomy and safety.
Alignment between words, commitments, and ordinary behavior across time.
You don’t have to decide today
Research-informed education
This independent tool combines observable accountability, emotional responsiveness, clear boundaries, and behavior sustained over time. Its educational influences include affair-recovery and attachment work associated with John and Julie Gottman, Sue Johnson, Shirley P. Glass, Janis Abrahms Spring, and Gordon, Baucom, and Snyder.
Shirley Glass’s work informs the distinction between ordinary privacy and emotionally significant secrecy. All questions and interpretations here are independently written. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by these authors, their estates, institutes, or publishers.
Further reading: Glass, S. P., with Staeheli, J. C. (2003). Not “Just Friends”: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity. Free Press.