Questionnaire : For Happy
Married Life
Here
is a List of Questions which Both the Partners can ask each other
before Getting Married.
Take a few minutes to sit down with your
partner and ask each other the
following questions. Its Always Better to Clear Any Doubts Before
the Great Day.
1.Who is going to be in charge of paying
bills and other expenses?
2. How much time do we expect to spend with
each other and when?
3. Where will we live?
4. Will it be a big place or small place?
How much room do we need?
5. How much will be able to
afford?
6. Will we keep our money in joint or
individual accounts?
7. What kinds of things will we talk about
first before buying?
8. Will we rent an apartment or do we want
to buy a house?
9. How will we do that? How long will it
take?
10. How will our careers affect our
relationship?
11. What if one of us had a career
opportunity that required a move to a
new city (or country)?
12. What if one of us, or both of us got
fired or laid-off?
13. How important is money to our
relationship and marriage?
14. What type of material possessions are
important to you (each other)?
15. What is your definition of financial
security?
16. How much is enough for a "safety net" or
"rainy day" fund?
17. How will we put that away?
18. Will we invest our savings?
19. How much of our income will we save or
invest?
20. Where and how?
21. Will we go shopping for food
together?
22. Will we have a special "night" together
that we always plan? Once a
week, once a month?
23. Will we go out, or stay in?
24. Who is responsible for cooking or will
we share that and how?
25. Do we have conflicting ideas of
style?
26. What are our individual goals and
objectives related to our careers and
jobs?
27. When do we want to retire, with how much
money, and how will we
spend our time after
retirement?
28. How often do you like to go out with
your friends alone?
29. How often will we go out with friends
together?
30. Will we entertain with friends often? Or
infrequently?
31. What about our personalities is
different and might be a source of
conflict?
32. What do you like, or dislike about my
family?
33. Is our individual relationship with our
family going to stay the same, or
might it change?
34. How will we share time with our families
during the holidays?
35. Define good sex and what a good sexual
relationship means?
36. How often do we each expect to have
sex?
37. What if we're not in "synch" or ready
for sex?
38. How do we deal with each other's sexual
expectations and needs?
39. What is your definition of great
sex?
40. Is sex important to us in this
relationship and how or why?
41. What if one of us doesn't want to have
sex, how will we deal with that?
42. Will one feel rejected or hurt? Will we
talk about it? How will we deal
with that?
43. How do you like to be touched? What do
you like? What don't you like?
44. Describe your idea of the ultimate
sexual experience – is it romantic, is
it spontaneous?
45. Will we have children? When and how
many?
46. If one of us already has children, how
do you expect the other to act or
treat the other's children?
47. Will they call you "Dad" or
"Mom"?
48. What will we do if we can't have
children together (adoption, other
options)?
49. What if one of us wants to have children
and the other isn't sure or
doesn't want to?
50. How might having children change our
relationship and the time we
spend alone with each other?
51. How might things around the house/home
change once a child is born?
52. Who will wake up at 2am when the baby is
crying?
53. Will one of us give up our career to
stay home with our child/children?
54. What will our parents (grandparents)
expect or want from us and how
much time will they want to spend with the
children?
55. If one of us was previously married, how
does the other feel about the
ex-wife / husband?
56. Is he/she a source of conflict? How do
they or might they affect our
relationship?
57. Will we go on vacations together, how
often, where and when?
58. Might we go on vacation or away with
friends or family without each
other?
59. What do you love about me?
60. Why are you marrying me?
61. How might previous relationships we've
had affect our marriage, if at
all?
62. What if an old boyfriend/girlfriend
calls? What if we bumped into one on
the street? How would you feel?
63. How would we know we're having problems
ahead of time and what
would we do about it?
64. How would we deal with something before
it's "too late"?
65. What about me drives you crazy or makes
you frustrated?
66. Would you be
willing to go to marriage counseling if we were having
problems?