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Is this the Real Thing?
--Rosalie Brennan in Should We Marry, by Rev. Joseph Champlin, Ave Maria Press, 2001

Check box Is this other person your best friend?

Check box Do you attempt to meet the other's needs before you take care of yourself?

Check box Do you have similar or complementary values on issues such as family, fidelity, money, lifestyle, children, ambitions, work ethic?

Check box If you were deserted on an island, would this person be the one you would want to be with?

Check box Are you intimidated by the other person?

Check box Do you feel safe when you are together?

Check box Do you walk together, not in front or behind each other?

Check box Do you have similar or opposing views about your extended families?

Check box Do you both realize that the wedding and marriage is only the beginning of the task of making a happy relationship?

Check box What does the other person do to make you happy?

Check box Do you really communicate and listed to each other?

Check box Does your partner know what makes you happy, sad or angry?

Check box Are your problem solving styles similar or complementary?

Check box How do you resolve conflicts - by avoidance, confrontation, or compromise?

Check box Would you consider yourselves on the same intellectual level?

Check box Have you common feelings about children and how to raise them?

Check box Is your life assuming a new dimension in which you speak more about "our" time and "our" weekend, instead of "my" time and "my" weekend?

Check box When you look at each other, can you guess (fairly accurately) how each other is feeling?

Check box Does time go faster when you are together and slower when you are apart?

Check box Do you share common interests?

Check box Can you say "I am sorry" when you have made a mistake or hurt the other person?

Check box Are the other's parents still married?

Check box What kind of marriage do the other's parents have?

Check box How do the other's parents treat each other?

Check box Does your partner have a deep faith and practice that faith?

Check box How committed is each one to making the marriage work?

Check box Does she/he have a sense of humor?

Check box Can your partner laugh at himself/herself?

Check box Whose needs does the other think of first in the relationship or about life in general?

Check box Are you comfortable holding hands in public?

 
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