1001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married, 1st Edition

Introduction
How to Use This Book
How to Discuss Your Differences
Part 1 • Your Past
1 Growing Up in a Traditional Family
2 Growing Up with Divorced or Single Parents
3 Impact and Influences of Other Relationships
4 At School and Play
5 Character Construction
Your Past: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 2 • Parents and In-Laws
6 Your Parents
7 Your In-Laws
8 Are We Our Parents?
9 Spending Time with Parents
10 One Big Happy Family
Parents and In-Laws: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 3 • Significant Others
11 Relatives
12 Friends
13 Pets
14 Exes and Past Relationships
15 Baristas to Bosses
Significant Others: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 4 • Children
16 How Many, if Any?
17 Reasons to Conceive
18 Raising a Baby
19 Financing a Family
20 Stepchildren and Guardianship
21 How Would You Respond?
Children: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 5 • Dreams, Drive, and Dogma
22 Religion and Spirituality
23 Race and Culture
24 Politics
25 Careers
26 Seven Years Later
27 Your Future
Dreams, Drive, and Dogma: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 6 • Daily Dos and Don’ts
28 Who Will Do What?
29 Daily Routine
30 Changes
31 Do You Mind?
32 Food Follies
Daily Dos and Don’ts: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 7 • Leisure Time
33 R&R Ratios
34 Planning Your Getaway
35 Once You’re There
36 Are We Having Fun Yet?
Leisure Time: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 8 • Finances
37 Saving and Spending Styles
38 Managing Your Money
39 The Ubiquitous Budget Worksheet
40 Money Honesty
41 When Times Get Tough
42 Debt: Liabilities and Responsibilities
43 Financial Checklist
Finances: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 9 • Physical Intimacy
44 What, Where, and How Often?
45 Turned On, Turned Off
46 Let’s Get Really Physical
47 What Would You Do?
48 Honor and Trust
Physical Intimacy: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 10 • Emotional Intimacy
49 The Real You
50 Showing How You Feel
51 Giving and Getting Love
52 Emotional Health Food
53 Emotional Junk Food
Emotional Intimacy: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 11 • Special Situations
54 Marrying Someone in the Military
55 Marrying a Noncitizen
56 Marrying a Criminal
57 Marrying a Celebrity
58 Marrying Someone Significantly Older or Younger
59 Marrying Someone with a Disability
Special Situations: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 12 • Your Wedding
60 The Big Day
61 Family, Friends, and Fiascos
62 Remarriage
63 To Have and to . . . Hold On!
64 Your Honeymoon
Your Wedding: Thoughts on Your Answers
Part 13 • Communication Styles
65 Personality Types
66 Virtual Voices
67 Don’t Speak
68 I Only Have “I”s For You
69 Killer Communication
Part 14 • Marriage Builders or Breakers
70 The Secret to Staying Together
71 The Friendship Factor
72 “I Do,” I Think
73 Reasons to Reconsider Marriage
74 Habits That Drive Couples Apart
Epilogue: Final Thoughts
Spousal Ten Commandments