How To Examine Your Partner's Romantic Patterns

How do I examine my partner's romantic patterns?

If you want to examine your partner's romantic patterns, there's one way to do it. Ask him. See what kind of information you can get in a non-threatening way. Here's the thing—they may come to you and say “you sound just like a shrink with all these questions.” If they do that, say to them “yeah, I guess I do. But from my understanding of shrinks, they gather information so they can help people. Basically here, I'm trying to help our relationship by having as much information as I can have.” The second part of that is “what would you like to know about me?”