DIRECTIONS: Review the following reasons you may feel the need to control people, places, and things in your life. Put an ``X'' next to those reasons usually true for you. Base on your number of responses, an INTERPRETATION will be sent to you by me of your need to control.

___ 1. If you control other people, they will do what you want them to do.

___ 2. It's a way to keep everything orderly, precise, and predictable, so that you don't go crazy or insane.

___ 3. You hate to be out of control or to lose your control.

___ 4. If things don't go your way, then you feel you'll have to work harder or have to struggle to reorganize and correct them.

___ 5. You have a hard time seeing people you care for hurting because their lives are out of control.

___ 6. You hate to have people see your true feelings especially if they are angry, unpleasant, or negative so you struggle to control them and keep them in so as not to upset others.

___ 7. You are on the watch for being taken advantage of by others.

___ 8. You are afraid of being manipulated or led into doing something you really don't want to do.

___ 9. When you see something or someone who needs to be fixed, you often step in.

___ 10. You came from a dysfunctional or crazy homelife and you have no desire to repeat it in your current homelife.

___ 11. You have an image, dream, or ideal of the way things are supposed to be and you work at trying to get it to be that way.

___ 12. You are afraid that if you don't take care of things, things will never get done.

___ 13. You feel if "you don't do it, then no one will.''

___ 14. You are afraid that everything you have worked for will be lost, so you take control to ensure this doesn't happen.

___ 15. When you feel intimidated, you compensate by taking more control of the situation.

___ 16. You find it difficult not to help when you are presented with a person or thing which appears helpless and out of control.

___ 17. You tend to hold to an "it's my way or the highway'' approach with people who don't do what you want them to do. You hope this will ensure they change their bad behaviors.

___ 18. You are frightened, scared, or nervous when things seem to be crazy or out of control so your first impulse is to take charge.

___ 19. You want everybody in your immediate life to be happy and you'll do whatever it takes to make it so.

___ 20. You know how hard life can be on those who go into it unprepared and unaware, so you do whatever it takes to make sure the people you care for are not taken advantage of.