This article aims to study the relationship between self-esteem and partner autonomy in couple. Couples in cohabiting relationships have higher level of self-esteem, than married couples, and married couples show more self-determination, expected more positive attitude from others, conflict less because of partner autonomy and because of jealousy. Men, who have formed cohabiting relationships have a greater degree of autonomy, U unlike women in the same experimental group. Older people (25-32) are more self-determined with higher self-esteem, are more sympathetic and less so because of jealousy conflicts as well as autonomy and dominance partner because unlike younger people (18-21). As a general result of research, we determined that persons with high level of self-esteem, have high level of partner autonomy to the couple.