How Intimate Do You Want To Be?
The following questions can be used when you have planned time to talk and get to know your spouse on a deeper level. Intimacy comes when we are willing to be vulnerable with another person. Intimacy is letting another person inside of our thoughts, emotions and feelings. How willing are you to let another know you inside and out?
1. What would you say are the three most romantic times we have had together? What made them special? How can we keep the romance alive in our marriage?
2. What is your happiest memory of childhood? Happiest memory of your teen years? Happiest memory of your adult life? Happiest memory of our marriage? Happiest memory of our children?
3. What three problems, if solved, would make the most positive difference in our marriage? In our family?
4. What do you see as the three most important decisions we need to make in the next year? Why are they important? What would help us most to make each decision wisely?
5. How would you describe an ideal day? An ideal evening? An ideal weekend? An ideal vacation?
6. In what three specific ways could we improve our everyday communications? Where are our strengths in communication? Where do we hit snags?
7. What specific part of your work responsibility do you find most fulfilling? What part do you find most frustrating?
8. In your opinion, what three things produce the most stress in our lives? In our marriage? In our family? What is your greatest area of stress right now? How can we overcome it?
9. What do you see as my three greatest strengths? How do my strengths complement yours?
10. What do you consider the three most important things we could do with each of our children in the next year? What are the three most important values we want to teach our children before they reach adulthood?
11. What do you enjoy most about our sex life? How can I improve? What do you wish I would do or would not do? What key to "turning you on" might I have been missing? What have I been getting A's in?
12. In your deepest heart of hearts, what questions would you like me most to ask you? What would you like most to ask me?
