What's your PDI Misery Index? Please answer "Yes or "No" to the following questions:
1.
Do you find yourself frequently apologizing to a family
member even though you know you did nothing wrong?
YES
NO
2.
Are you in a relationship in which "struggle" has become
a way of life and where whatever you do is always wrong?
YES
NO
3.
Do these individuals bring out the worst in you and always put you
on the defensive so that you feel used?
YES
NO
4.
Do you fall into any of these categories in your relationship?
YES
NO
powerless -frustrated
YES
NO
sucked dry -exploited
YES
NO
always giving -manipulated
YES
NO
5.
Do you always have to explain yourself, but they never
do?
YES
NO
6.
Do you ever get the feeling that they have the scene
planned (how you're supposed to act) and if
you don't do it their way, there's trouble?
YES
NO
7.
Do you feel that problems are always your fault and
your rights come last? That your feelings are passed off
as selfish?
YES
NO
8.
Do they ask you to talk about what's wrong but when
you do, they cannot take any criticism? That if you say
something negative, you're attacking, but if you say
nothing you're to blame for not sharing?
YES
NO
9.
Do you often feel guilty and think that the cause of the
problems in the relationship lies with you?
YES
NO
10.
Do they provoke you and then turn your feelings
around on you?
YES
NO
11.
Do you constantly feel that the relationship would
improve if only you could do better at making it work?
YES
NO
12.
Do you find yourself in a love/hate relationship where they
continually promise to change their behavior but
you find it never does?
YES
NO
13.
Do you keep telling yourself that they are not really like
they behave and keep making excuses for him?
YES
NO
14.
Do you find yourself putting a lot of energy into keeping
the illusion of the relationship rather than face how truly
bad the relationship is?
YES
NO
15.
Do you feel like you're frequently talking to a child?
YES
NO
16.
Do you have the sense that whatever they say, they really
never express their feelings? And that when they do talk, they're
vague, general and turn things around on you?
YES
NO
17.
Do you really trust the person with whom you're supposed
to have a close relationship?
YES
NO
18.
Do you wonder why nothing changes in your relationship…
no matter what you do? Do they ever really change?
YES
NO
19.
Do you frequently hear "I can't take this anymore!" or
something similar?
YES
NO
20.
Are they self-centered and egotistical? Do they talk
down to you?
YES
NO
21.
Do they often play the 'victim' role in your relationship when
really they do the victimizing?
YES
NO
22.
Do you feel like there is no "us" in the relationship
That there's only me and "what I want" in regards to them?
YES
NO
23.
Do you frequently wonder why you stay with them?
But still you do?
YES
NO
24.
Do you feel that you always have to give into them to
keep the peace but they never give into you?
YES
NO
25.
Do they make you miserable?
YES
NO
How many Questions did you answer YES TO:
Your PDI Misery Index:
If you answered "Yes" to 15-25 questions, you definitely have a relationship with a PDI.
If you answered "Yes" to at least 5-15 questions, it is very likely that a PDI is in your life
If you answered "Yes" to less than 5 questions, you are doing well in choosing someone in your relationship…or you're not being very honest in how miserable you really are.