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Book Review ­ 1000 Questions For Couples

One of the biggest reason marriages end in divorce is because couples fail to ask the big questions before they walk down the aisle.

If couples simply spent some time asking each other the questions that really matter, they’d greatly increase their chances of staying together.

The great thing about a “question book” is that it makes it easier to ask those difficult questions and encourages an environment to address them.

But is Michael Webb’s “1000 Questions For Couples” the right book for this?

In short, yes. Most question books ‘beat around the bush,’ never really providing the important questions, and others simply don’t have enough questions.

On the other hand, Webb has put together the most comprehensive collection of questions, covering every single topic you’d ever want to know about before tying the knot.

It includes tough subjects like money, children & child rearing, career, past and present relationships, religion, morals, convictions & beliefs, personality, and even sex.

But don’t get me wrong ­ while there are many serious and tough topics to discuss, there are also many “lighter” yet just as important topics, including the car and driving, vacations, food and well being, pets, and your favorite things.

That’s one thing I really loved about this book. It covered every conceivable topic from the super serious to the light-hearted and fun, making it easy for couples to start with easy questions and build their way up to important ones.

Also, a great bonus is having the ability to deliver 3 – 5 of the questions to my email each day, making everything automatic. I just go about my day and get new questions to ask my loved one, without having to really think about it.

In all, there’s nothing really negative I can say about this book. It delivers exactly what it says and covers every question you would ever want to ask your loved one.

I highly recommend this book for everyone. NOT just couples who are thinking of getting married but also couples who just want to feel closer together, or people dating, who just want more things to talk about.

Read another post on my blog 1000 Questions To Ask For Couples – 5 Tips To Make Sure You Stay Together

Knowing if you are compatible with your partner can be quite a relief. And on the contrary – feeling like something is not as it should be – can be worrying or even frightening, depending on the stage your relationship is in.

If you asked yourself about how to know if you are compatible, then, I guess, at some point you felt like you are not quite compatible with your partner, did you? Can you remember exactly when that was? Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone wants to be happy, but what does that mean? Well, a person needs to eat enough of tasty and healthy food, be in good physical and emotional shape and enjoy himself. But what about a happy relationship? How one find the perfect partner for more than one night in the same bed?

Think for a second about your best friend – why are you best friends? Because he or she looks good or is the same as you? Or maybe because he or she is so different that it fascinates you and so you can argue a lot? Or probably because you feel differently about things?

Well, I know that my best friends I choose because we think the same about many things – we agree on more things in life than we disagree. We have very close emotions about life – enthusiasm or conservatism, slight interest or boredom, fear or worry or even grief. That mean we are emotionally close. And finally – I enjoy talking and listening to my friends – because they are neither too slow or too fast for me to follow the conversation.

So we have here 3 main close friendship compatibility categories: Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone wants to be happy, but what does that mean? Well, a person needs to eat enough of tasty and healthy food, be in good physical and emotional shape and enjoy himself. But what about a happy relationship? How one find the perfect partner for more than one night in the same bed?

Think for a second about your best friend – why are you best friends? Because he or she looks good or is the same as you? Or maybe because he or she is so different that it fascinates you and so you can argue a lot? Or probably because you feel differently about things?

Well, I know that my best friends I choose because we think the same about many things – we agree on more things in life than we disagree. We have very close emotions about life – enthusiasm or conservatism, slight interest or boredom, fear or worry or even grief. That mean we are emotionally close. And finally – I enjoy talking and listening to my friends – because they are neither too slow or too fast for me to follow the conversation.

So we have here 3 main close friendship compatibility categories: Read the rest of this entry »

People are surely not machines, they have emotions! If you know the list of human emotions and can identify them by just looking at another person, than you can suddenly discover that most people just time after time show the same emotion all over again.

Do you have a father who all the time finds something bad about things? Like he is being antagonistic in life? Or maybe your mother worries all the time – everything makes her nervous. Or your friend who all the time finds something new and interesting and gets pretty enthusiastic.

Well, you may say that such a regular, time after time emotional tone can identify a person. In his book, “Science of Survival” L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology religion, shows a fascinating chart of human emotions and behavior, by which you can predict how a particular person would behave in different situations.

How well will he be able to communicate? Will he be able to agree with you or will always find something wrong to tell you. Will you be able to trust him or not. And many many more interesting personal traits. It is a very powerful knowledge to have, I’d tell you.

Anyway, after you identify the regular or chronic – that which shows itself all the time, emotional tone of a person – you can do the same about yourself. Please, do not ask anyone to do that for you, use your own judgement – it’s safer that way.

And finally compare between your emotional tones. If they seem to be the same – wonderful! You are emotionally compatible. If not, meaning you feel differently from your partner more times than feeling the same, oh-oh! Watch out! It seems you are not that compatible – your emotional compatibility is not at its best.

You are welcome to try this out for any relationship you have – friends, loved one, co-workers, even parents – this can explain quite a lot about trouble you might have with some people.

Other intersting posts:

• Simple Communication Compatibility Test – Test Your Couple Compatibility in 3 Seconds
• How To Understand The Person In Front of You
• Relationship Compatibility Test Categories
• Intellectual Compatibility – Free Relationship Compatibility Test
• Questions to Ask Your Girlfriend – Questions to Ask on a Date
• Questions to Ask Boyfriend – What Questions to Ask Your Boyfriend

Take ACE – Free Online Couple Compatibility Test to discover by using a carefully preselected list of questions if you are intellectually, emotionally and mentally compatible with your partner.