My Husband Hates Me Quiz

How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- We follow mutually understood agreements and discuss changes before acting.
- He argues strongly for his preference but ultimately leaves the decision open to discussion.
- He repeatedly pressures me to change or abandon a stated boundary.
- He sabotages contraception, removes protection without agreement, or forces a reproductive decision.
- He lets me leave and waits for another time to talk.
- He follows me and keeps talking, but maintains space and allows me to go.
- He crowds the doorway or my path but moves when I firmly insist.
- He blocks or locks the exit, restrains me, takes away mobility aids, or otherwise prevents me from leaving.
- He accepts the answer and stops without punishing me for it.
- He may express disappointment or ask for reassurance, then respects the answer.
- He sulks, guilt-trips me, or keeps asking after I have answered.
- He continues sexual contact, threatens consequences, or forces the situation after I say no or pull away.
My Husband Hates Me Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People who feel confused, diminished, pressured, or unsafe in a marriage can use this questionnaire to organize what has been happening. The My Husband Hates Me Quiz is most useful when the question is whether a partner’s reactions reflect conflict, coercion, or danger rather than simple dislike. As a marital abuse questionnaire, it keeps attention on concrete behavior rather than guessing at motive.
What This Assessment Explores
The questionnaire examines conduct affecting autonomy, dignity, consent, and safety. It covers contraception, sexual refusal, financial or communication control, isolation, intimidation, threats, physical contact, property damage, and responses to vulnerability. This makes emotional abuse in marriage visible as behavior rather than a guess about motive.
These are the three result dimensions:
- Emotional Control and Degradation (0-15) reflects humiliation, punishment, monitoring, isolation, exploitation, or threats. Bands: No indicator endorsed (0); Something to review (1-2); Act on concern (3-15).
- Physical Force and Immediate Safety (0-15) reflects blocked movement, restraint, injury, dangerous intimidation, or safety changes. Bands: No indicator endorsed (0); Something to review (1-2); Act on concern (3-15).
- Sexual Boundaries and Consent (0-15) reflects pressure, reproductive interference, nonconsensual contact, or misuse of intimate material. Bands: No indicator endorsed (0); Something to review (1-2); Act on concern (3-15).
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each item offers four ordered response choices, moving from mutual respect toward pressure, coercion, force, or threats. The respondent selects the description closest to lived experience, so the result reflects endorsed situations rather than a clinician’s judgment.
As a relationship safety assessment, its structure is conceptually consistent with CASR-SF (Ford-Gilboe et al., 2016), the Composite Abuse Scale work assessed by Hegarty et al. (2005), Dutton and Goodman’s coercion framework, and the IPSVS work of Tarzia et al. (2025). It is not a validated administration of those published instruments.
Separate domain results summarize endorsed experiences; the bands are unvalidated reflective summaries, not severity ratings, predictions, legal findings, or clinical cutoffs. A red-flag response matters independently of the total, and a zero result cannot rule out other harm.
Self-report is shaped by memory, current context, self-awareness, and safety when answering. The result can organize observations and support planning, but it cannot establish motive or prove what occurred. If danger or serious injury is immediate, contact local emergency services or a relevant support service from a safer place or device.
- Ford-Gilboe, Marilyn; Wathen, C. Nadine; Varcoe, Colleen; MacMillan, Harriet L.; Scott-Storey, Kelly; Mantler, Tara; Hegarty, Kelsey; Perrin, Nancy. (2016). Development of a brief measure of intimate partner violence experiences: the Composite Abuse Scale (Revised)-Short Form (CASR-SF). BMJ Open, 6(12), e012824. DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012824
- Hegarty, Kelsey; Bush, Robert A. Baruch; Sheehan, Mary C. (2005). The composite abuse scale: further development and assessment of reliability and validity of a multidimensional partner abuse measure in clinical settings. Violence and Victims, 20(5), 529-547. DOI 10.1891/0886-6708.2005.20.5.529
- Dutton, Mary Ann; Goodman, Lisa A. (2005). Coercion in Intimate Partner Violence: Toward a New Conceptualization. Sex Roles, 52(11-12), 743-756. DOI 10.1007/s11199-005-4196-6
- Tarzia, Laura; Brown, Cynthia; McLindon, Elizabeth; Hegarty, Kelsey. (2025). Development and Validation of the Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Scale (IPSVS): A Multi-Dimensional Scale to Measure Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 40(17-18), 4082-4103. DOI 10.1177/08862605241287803
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