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How do you verbalize your emotions?
Blurt or Brood? - http://www.outofservice.com/blirt/

Chart your course through the political quagmire.
The Political Compass - http://politicalcompass.org/

Test your relationship against several metaphysical standards.
Love Test - http://www.lovetest.com

Perceptions of God and ideology inventory.
Family Relationships - http://www.unc.edu/~schaefer/

Are you so deep in love you can't think straight? Get a little perspective with this quick quiz.
Crush Quiz - http://www.coolquiz.com/life/crush/

What is your ecological footprint?
Sharing Nature's Interest - http://www.bestfootforward.com/ecologicalfootprint.htm

Personality tests and quizzes on love, relationships, personality, and knowledge.
Quiz Stop - http://quizstop.com/

Calculator to calculate the number of American singles you must meet to find your soulmate.
Soulmate Calculator - http://www.solvedating.com/soulmatecalculator.asp

Ladies Home Journal Quizzes - http://www.lhj.com/home/Relationship-Quizzes.html

Good family and friend attitude checks
The Relationship Institute -

Relationship problems? Search for answers here.

http://www.relationship-institute.com/

The unexamined relationship is not worth having.
True Love Magnet Quiz - http://www.whatittakes.com/Quiz1/lovequiz.html

Is honesty really the best policy?
Honesty Test - http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/honesty.html

Also see The Boyfriend Test. Good message board.
The Girlfriend Test - http://www.thegirlfriendtest.com

Also see The Girlfriend Test. Good message board.
The Boyfriend Test - http://www.theboyfriendtest.com

Just for fun. Maybe.
Dads Against Deadbeat Dates - http://members.cox.net/dadd/index.shtml

Are your numbers compatible?
Love Calculator - http://www.xs4all.nl/~avdsjw/kabbala

Self-evaluation quiz on effective communications in relationships.
Listening Skills Evaluation -

http://www.positive-way.com/listenin.htm

How do you feel about your relationship and your place in it?
Relationship Satisfaction Test - http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/relationship_satisfaction_r_access.html

Quiz on how jealousy can affect relationships.
The Jealousy Quiz - http://www.romanceclass.com/miscr/LoveQuiz/QZ247

A marriage-risk calculator based on the 1957 book "How To Avoid Matrimony".
The Froy Marriage Test - http://www.kevan.org/froytest/

Determine just how slack you are.
Are you a slacker? - http://www.emode.com/emode/tests/slacker.jsp

Are there hidden depths to yours and your loved ones personalities?
Personality Match - http://FindingTheLoveOfYourLife.com

Find out if you are a jerk or a nag.
Hearts & Things Polls - http://www.heartsandthings.com/polls.htm

Several personality & relationship questionnaires to choose from.
#1 Choice Dating - http://1choicedating.com/surveys.htm#disclosure

Find out how you rated on your last date.
Rate a Date - http://www.ecrush.com/rateadate/

Test to gauge the practicality and reality of your relationship.
Love Quiz Test -

http://www.love-lessions.com/illusion_love_quiz.htm

An interesting assortment of relationship tests.
Coping Skills Inventory - http://www.psychtests.com/tests/psychometrics/sts_coping.html

Very serious questionnaire.
Mars Venus Dating - http://www.marsvenusdating.com/cgi-bin/mvdating/frame.cgi?testing

A man with a plan (or at least a questionnaire).
Personal Dating Test - http://reluctantelitist.netfirms.com/

An intuitive look at the opportunities and challenges in a loving relationship.
Soulmate Quiz - http://www.soulmatesecrets.com/quiz.html

Investigate the intellectual, physical, and emotional aspects of your relationships.
The Relationship Basic 3 - http://home.att.net/~basic3

Demonstration test from Project Implicit, which gaugues prejudicial attitudes or beliefs about certain groups of people.
The Implicit Association Test - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/demohome.jsp

How Great Is Your Marriage?
Excerpted from Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage and 10 Other Secrets to a Great Relationship

Answer the following fifteen questions, then tabulate your responses to find out how your marriage stacks up. 1. Your spouse has gained ten pounds and says to you, 'I've really put on a few pounds lately.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/4450.html

What is your Love Personality?
It is an obvious fact that we can learn and know what true love is. What we are often not aware of though, is that there are different love trends. Does it even matter if we understand love trends? If we are in a happy relationship, then that means it
http://www.enotalone.com/article/2282.html

What is your Love Personality? Part 2
Those are the main trends that most people fall into following. This does not mean that a person who has a certain love trend cannot carry qualities from other trends, however. It just means they in general carry that love personality.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/2283.html

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These pages provide the tools for a wide-ranging analysis of your personality, so you can know yourself better. Covering the areas of

Introversion/Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Determinism, Sexuality and Social & Political Attitudes, it will help you see yourself - your mental, emotional and behavioral strengths and weaknesses - in a more objective light. It is an ideal starting point for personal enhancement.

http://www.trans4mind.com/personality/index.html

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BOUNDARIES AND ASSERTIVENESS LINKS

A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please - or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
Philip K. Dick

When Words Become Weapons: Verbal Abuse, Participant's Guide
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/famlf2/GT346A.PDF

How Verbal Self Defense Works, Suzette Haden Elgin, PhD
http://people.howstuffworks.com/vsd.htm

http://people.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=vsd.htm&url=http://www.adrr.com/aa/

How to Deal with Power Freak Relatives During the Holidays
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/11/prweb49806.php

Win Win Negotiation Strategies
http://www.insiderreports.com/storypage.asp_Q_ChanID_E_BZ_A_StoryID_E_20000423

How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People
http://www.albernstein.com/id98.htm

Coping With Toxic People
http://breakups101.com/toxicpeople.html

Abuse Management
http://groups.msn.com/NARCISSISTICPERSONALITYDISORDER/
abusemanagement.msnw

Boundaries
http://www.patiencepress.com/samples/boundari.html
http://www.skysite.org/boundaries.html

Setting Limits in Relationships
http://www.cyberparent.com/women/limits.htm

People Pleasing? Having Trouble Saying "No?"
http://www.kalimunro.com/article_pleasing.html

Ways to Say No
http://or.essortment.com/waystosayno_rqjd.htm

Lessons About Emotional Detachment, Part 2 Setting Boundaries
http://incestabuse.about.com/cs/mentalhealth/a/emotiondetach_2.htm

Setting Boundaries - How I did It
http://www.geocities.com/kerry_l_dennis/MPD/Articles/boundaries.html

Boundary Links
http://www.bpdresources.com/coping.html#Boundaries
Verbal Abuse and how to respond

http://www.whitesoftheirlies.com/articles/blackmail.htm

Assertiveness Training (some good hints & techniques)
http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap13/chap13e.htm

Emotional Blackmail & verbal tactics to use
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BPD/blackmail.html

Boundaries and verbal abuse site Boundaries and Verbal Abuse by Sidney Langston
http://members.aol.com/elrophe/boundariesabuse.html
http://members.aol.com/elrophe/articles.htm

Confrontation and Verbal Self Defence, Darla Bolon, MSW responses to abuse
http://education.osu.edu/paes/sfhp/172%20notes/CONFRONTdocumentbyDarla.doc

How to Deal With Control Freaks
http://www.ec-online.net/Knowledge/Articles/control.html

The Dysfunctional Dance (by Tammy) at BPD Central
http://205.252.229.155/nookboard/index.php?topic=8179.0

Just Say "No" by Laura Wilkinson
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/verbal_emotional_abuse/70151

How to Deal with An Abuser Without Getting Defensive
http://drirene.com/with_an_abuser.htm
Boundaries - by Dr. Irene
http://www.drirene.com/boundari.htm
How to Deal With an Abuser When Words Don't Work
http://drirene.com/when_words.htm
Communicating with an Abuser
http://www.drirene.com/language_analysis.htm

Assertiveness - Be More Confident and Competent with Anybody
http://front.csulb.edu/tstevens/assertion_training.htm

Controlling diverting & manipulation in conversations
http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Abuse/breakfree/mind.html

Some verbal response suggestions from a taxi driver Non-escalating verbal self defence
http://www.taxi1010.com/

How to deal with an Overbearing Mother
http://www.ehow.com/how_15126_deal-with-overbearing.html

Recognizing and Defusing Angry Situations (Bait Handling skills)
http://www.work911.com/products/defuse2.htm
Part 2
http://www.work911.com/articles/defusingpeople1.htm

Self-Image Boundaries
http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/groups/public/%5C@fotf_troubledwith/documents/articles/twi_012973.cfm?channel=Life%20Pressures&topic=Self-Image&sssct=Other%20Things%20to%20Consider

Setting Boundaries
http://www.joy2meu.com/Personal_Boundaries.htm

Articles on Boundaries
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/boundaries/

How to Deal With Control Freaks
http://www.ec-online.net/Knowledge/Articles/control.html

The Dysfunctional Dance (by Tammy) at BPD Central
http://205.252.229.155/nookboard/index.php?topic=8179.0

Just Say "No" by Laura Wilkinson
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/verbal_emotional_abuse/70151

Assertiveness - Be More Confident and Competent with Anybody
http://front.csulb.edu/tstevens/assertion_training.htm

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With 5 million Americans suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and another 10 million with the less severe syndrome Destructive Narcissistic Pattern, Loving the Self-Absorbed is a timely book. Author Nina Brown gives readers specific steps for limiting the effect of a partner's narcissistic behavior and getting what they need out of the relationship. She explains the five types of "destructive narcissism" and how to recognize their effects on a relationship.
Loving the Self Absorbed by Nina Brown (Amazon book description)

Personality Disorders:
http://www.focusas.com/PersonalityDisorders.html

Criteria for Compensatory/Self Confident/Inventive Narcissist
http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/compensatorydc.html
http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/index.html

Self Confident Type
http://www.ptypes.com/self-confident.htmlOther