Marcus Kusi - Questions for Couples: 469 Thought-Provoking Conversation Starters for Connecting, Building Trust, and Rekindling Intimacy

Questions for Couples 469 Thought-Provoking Conversation Starters for Connecting, Building Trust, and Rekindling Intimacy Marcus and Ashley Kusi Questions for Couples: 469 Thought-Provoking Conversation Starters for Connecting, Building Trust, and Rekindling Intimacy. Copyright 2017 by Marcus and Ashley Kusi. All Rights Reserved. No part of this book or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified, distributed, stored, transmitted in any form or by any means, or adapted without the prior written consent of the authors and publisher. The views expressed herein are those of the authors alone and should not be taken as professional advice. The information presented is intended for informational purposes only.

The reader is responsible for his or her own actions. In this book, we share what we have learned in life and marriage; if any of the information is perceived as advice, please take it with a grain of salt. Publishing services provided by Archangel Ink Join Our Email Community To receive email updates about future books, courses, workshops and more, visit the website below to join our book fan community today. www.ourpeacefulfamily.com/bookfan Dedication To couples committed to making their relationships the best they can be. Contents Introduction Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. Robert Half Asking the right questions is what leads to better conversations, learning new things, and getting to know another person on a deeper level.

From our experience, we know it can be difficult coming up with fun, insightful, and engaging questions to discuss as a couple. Thats why we wrote Questions for Couples, filled with 469 thought-provoking conversation starters to help you get to know each other on a deeper level, enhance intimacy, and encourage personal growth, so you can grow together as a couple. There are also follow-up questions to ensure you get the most value. In addition, this book will help you have conversations that really get you thinking, bring back great memories and create new ones, and keep you talking for hours. Topics covered include love, sex, money, relationships, communication, emotions, personality, dreams, passions, career, memories, intimacy, and so much more! Whats more, we have added twenty-five bonus questions for you to ask each other weekly, for a relationship check-in, and yearly questions as you set goals together for a new year. Discussing the questions in this book with your partner, spouse, or significant other will certainly help you both open up and get to know each other more intimately.

It is up to you to have an open mind and be honest with each other. Take turns answering a couple of questions every day when you set aside time to connect with each other. Examples of practical times you can use these questions to connect and grow your understanding of each other as a couple are:

• In the car while you drive to your destination. For example, road trips.
• After the kids go to bed.
• Over dinner.
• While you relax in the evening with a glass of wine.
• In the morning over breakfast in bed.

You can even turn this book into a game and generate random numbers from 1 to 469 using a random number generator found here: www.ourpeacefulfamily.com/random . The weekly check-in questions should be used to see how you can both grow in different areas of your relationship by finding out how satisfied you each are in sexual intimacy, emotional connection, etc. Use these questions to help you navigate through the sometimes rough waters of healthy criticism, so you can take your relationship to the next level.

The yearly questions should be used at the end of the year or as you begin a new year. These questions will help you both to review the current year, and set goals and plan financially for the next year. We thoroughly enjoy asking each other these questions. We are always surprised with each others answers because some of them change over time, as we evolve in our relationship and our mindsets change. Discussing these questions together brought us closer and provided us with interesting ways to learn new things about each other, even after years of marriage. Questions for Couples will inspire deeper and more meaningful conversations for the two of you.

They sure have for us! Note: Some of these questions can be found in our books: Communication in Marriage, Emotional and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage, and First Year of Marriage. 469 Thought-Provoking Conversation Starters Question 1 How do you feel most connected in our friendship?

• How can we strengthen our friendship?

Question 2 When do you feel emotionally connected to me? Question 3 What makes you uncomfortable when talking about sex? Question 4 What circumstances are you okay with going into debt for?

• How do you feel about paying off debt?
• Should we draw up a budget?
• Should we create a plan for paying off our debt?

Question 5 Tell me about a challenge youve had in your life.

• What are you grateful for, as a result of experiencing that hardship, and what did you learn?

Question 6 How would you like to start your ideal morning? Question 7 Have you ever felt rejected by me?

• When did it happen?
• What did I do or say that made you feel rejected?

Question 8 Have you ever resented me?

• What was it for?
• Is there something from your past I have used against you before, perhaps unintentionally? What was it?

Question 9 What have you been interested in or learning about lately? Question 10 What is one place you would like us to have sex, but we have not yet? Question 11 In your opinion, what is the one thing we have argued about the most in the past ninety days?

• What do you think is the root cause, and how can we resolve it?

Question 12 When you talk about me with someone, do you have positive, negative, or neutral things to say?

• What kind of feelings do you get when you think or talk about me?

Question 13 Do you feel I am there for you when you need me?

• What can I do to show you I am there for you?

Question 14 What is your favorite memory of our wedding day?

• What about our wedding night?

Question 15 When do you feel respected by me?

• When do you feel disrespected by me?

Question 16 Which married couple do you look up to the most, and why? Question 17 How do you feel after we have sex?

• What would you like to do right after sex?
• Do you ever feel dirty or ashamed after we have sex?

Question 18 What is one thing you discovered about me, after we got married, that you love?

• What is one thing that you discovered about me, after we got married, that you dislike?

Question 19 What is something I do that makes you feel loved the most?

• What is something I do that makes you feel unloved?

Question 20 How would you describe our relationship in three words? Question 21 What is better than amazing sex? Question 22 What is a question about life you wish you had the answer to? Question 23 What were the highest points of your life?

• What did you learn through those times?

Question 24 What were the highest and lowest points of our relationship?

• What did you learn through those times?

Question 25 What is your first memory of me? Describe it in as much detail as you can remember. Question 26 How can we make our relationship affair-proof? Question 27 Do you find it difficult to trust me completely?

• What is something I do now, or could do in the future, that makes you not trust me?