The Criterion Box

Why You Choose Who You Choose — a free Attachment Style assessment

Before two people can build a healthy, beautiful relationship, there is a layer of self-knowledge that has to come first. This isn't only about chemistry, shared values, or communication skill, it's the understanding of your Attachment Style. This is the lens that is formed early, and becomes the mirror through which you experience closeness and distance in your relationships.

Here's why it has to come first. You might be able to improve your communication style, but if you don't know that your nervous system reads a partner's silence as abandonment, or reads a partner's need for you as a threat to your independence, you'll keep applying good advice to the wrong problem. Your relationship habits run on the operating system called your nervous system.

This is why everything else; your Need-Language, your Criterion Box, and the deeper patterns this work eventually gets into, starts here.

Answer 14 quick questions honestly, based on your actual pattern across relationships, not just your current one. For each question, choose the option that's most true of you, even if none feels like a perfect fit. Your result appears instantly.