How Happy Is Your Relationship Right Now?

Relationship happiness is not a single feeling — it is the aggregate of dozens of small daily experiences across multiple dimensions of your partnership. Two couples with identical overall happiness scores can have completely different strength profiles: one thriving on emotional connection and struggling with conflict quality, another with excellent communication but diminishing physical intimacy. Understanding which dimensions are driving your happiness — and which are quietly eroding it — is the first step toward improving it. This Relationship Happiness Score uses 9 research-based questions across 5 weighted dimensions to produce a structured happiness assessment. The dimensions and their weights reflect the body of relationship science: Emotional Connection (28%) is the single highest-weight factor because daily closeness and genuine friendship quality are the strongest predictors of long-term relationship satisfaction. Conflict Quality (24%) is weighted second because how couples fight — not how often — predicts stability. Mutual Growth (18%), Appreciation and Fun (16%), and Physical Intimacy (14%) complete the picture. The result is a score from 0 to 100 with a tier designation (Thriving, Healthy, Sustaining, Struggling, or At Risk), a bar chart of dimension scores, a happiness projection showing how improving specific low-scoring areas changes your total score, and a personalized action plan with concrete, research-grounded steps. Unlike generic relationship quizzes, this tool is grounded in the Gottman Institute's four-decade body of research on what makes relationships last — including the 5:1 positive-to-negative interaction ratio, the role of contempt as the strongest negative predictor, and the importance of what Gottman calls "turning toward" bids for connection.