Top 20 Questions For Couples: Get To Know Your Partner

Are you currently in a relationship with someone who is special to you? Asking the right questions for couples can help inprove your relationship. Are you at that juncture in your relationship where you're beginning to suspect it may possibly get serious? Possibly thoughts of marriage have even entered your mind. If your answer to these questions was 'yes', it would be adviseable for you to ask each other probing get to know questions that could help you to understand each other better.

Following are my top 20 questions for couples to help you get started. Some are serious, and some are just fun questions for couples:

1. What is the one thing you would change about yourself if you had the power to do so?

2. If you were able to change just one thing about me, what would it be?

3. What, more than anything else, makes you feel loved?

4. What does success mean to you?

5. If you were the king (or queen) of the world, what is the first thing you would change?

6. If you had the power to travel back in time, which event in history would you like to witness?

7. If you could travel back in time, what famous historical event would you like to change?

8. What do people do that annoys you more than anything else?

9. Of all the places on Earth, where would be your first choice to live?

10. What is the most important thing you want to achieve before you die?

11. Have you learned any lessons from past relationships? What were they?

12. What are the most important things you're looking for in a person?

13. What do you consider your best character traits?

14. What's the most foolhardy thing you've ever done?

15. What's your most memorable moment?

16. If you won the lottery what would you spend it on?

17. If you were going to a deserted island, what three items would you take along?

18. What time in history would you have liked to be born in and why?

19. What are you most passionate about?

20. What's one place you haven't been to yet that you really want to visit?


If my top 20 questions for couples inspire you to in-depth conversations with your partner, then this article has been successful. I'm sure you can think of some more "get to know" questions, and even some fun questions for couples. I suggest open-ended questions rather than "yes' or 'no' questions, because they stimulate more in-depth discussion. Putting forth some effort to better understand each other now will have long term rewards for both of you.