When it’s time to take your relationship with your partner to the next level you need to ask effective questions to get to know someone more intimately and personally.
Human relationships are no simple matter and for that reason alone it’s vital to be armed with the right tools, especially when it comes to more intimate matters involving your life partner.
There is no replacement for getting to know someone properly, as opposed to superficially, and where intimate relationships are involved, all the more so.
When we say intimate we don’t necessarily mean intimate in the sexual sense as having effective questions to ask someone actually applies to anyone to wish to get to know better.
Do you ever find yourself lost for words or tongue-tied, struggling for the right questions to ask someone you know or love?
Don’t we all? At least at some points in our lives as will build new relationships with people we meet at work or in social settings.
This week the Lifedaily team decided that it was high time to offer a hand when it comes to knowing what are the best questions to get to know someone properly.
We compiled this handy list of 20 from various sources and crunched together the very best of the best for your reading pleasure, and to help you have the right questions always at hand.
1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
2. Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you’re going to say? Why?
3. What would constitute a perfect day for you?
4. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
5. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
6. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
7. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained one quality or ability, what would it be?
8. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
9. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?
10. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?
11. How was your relationship with your parents growing up? Were you closer to you mother or father?
12. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, share what would be important for him or her to know.
13. What would you say is the most embarrassing moment in your life?
14. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
15. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
16. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.
17. If you could choose the sex and physical appearance of your soon-to-be-born child, would you do it?
18. Would you be willing to have horrible nightmares for a year if you would be rewarded with extraordinary wealth?
19. While on a trip to another city, your spouse/lover meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given they will never meet again, and you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it?
20. Have you ever been unfaithful when in a relationship with another person? If so, how did it make you feel at the time.
If you want to get to know your partner a whole lot better we are sure this handy list of the 20 most effective questions to get to know someone will help you.
You can read them off straight from the list or, if you’re real smart and have some time on your hands, you can go ahead and memorize them for the best effect.
