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Communication is an essential foundation of the couple. To strengthen it, there are certain aspects that are important to address. Here are seven questions that a psychologist recommends asking your other half.
Maintaining your relationship is not (always) easy. You must constantly renew yourself and exchange ideas with your partner in order to consolidate your relationship. To help you, Mark Tavers, psychologist, reveals seven embarrassing but essential questions to ask your other half.
Seven tricky questions to ask your partner
According to the psychologist, asking these questions means leaving your comfort zone and exposing yourself to the answers of your other half. But it also allows us to maintain honesty and transparency in the couple, essential elements to make it function in a healthy way. So here are these seven questions.
- What is one of my habits that you have never mentioned that is causing you problems?
- Do you feel like there’s an aspect of your identity that you’ve had to erase for the sake of our relationship?
- What aspect of our relationship do you take for granted?
- What are the best and worst changes you’ve noticed in me since we’ve been together?
- What am I doing that makes you lose confidence in yourself?
- Is there a part of your life before our relationship that you miss?
- What is one thing you do for our relationship that you think goes unnoticed and that you wish I would recognize more?
Answer all questions, directly
For Mark Travers, to move forward in a relationship, these questions must not remain unanswered. These questions indeed allow a deep introspection of the couple, necessary to identify the threats which could potentially weigh on the relationship.
It is therefore essential to keep in mind that these questions allow the couple to move forward, by changing what is not suitable, and not to create conflicts.
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