- My partner shares my views on the importance of family and kin
(sisters, brothers, moms, dads) in our life together. T F
Scoring: Give yourself one point for each "true" answer. If you score below
three, your marriage could stand some improvement in this area. Be
sure to work together on Exercise 2, which follows this questionnaire.
Your Goals
- We share many of the same goals in our life together. T F
- If I were to look back on my life in very old age, I think I would see that
our paths had meshed very well. T F - My partner values my accomplishments. T F
- My partner honors the personal goals I have that are unrelated to our
marriage. T F - We share many of the same goals for others who are important to us
(children, kin, friends, and community). T F - We have very similar financial goals. T F
- We tend to have compatible worries about potential financial
disasters.TF - Our hopes and aspirations, as individuals and together, for our
children, for our life in general, and for our old age are quite compatible,
T F - Our life dreams tend to be similar or compatible. T F
- Even when different, we have been able to find a way to honor our life
dreams. T F
Scoring: Give yourself one point for each "true" answer. If you score
below three, your marriage could stand some improvement in this area.
Be sure to work together on Exercise 3, which follows this questionnaire.
Your Symbols
- We see eye to eye about what home means. T F
- Our philosophies of what love ought to be are quite compatible. T F
- We have similar values about the importance of peacefulness in our
lives. T F