You must promise to answer them honestly.
It is my time to ask the questions. You may ask me questions at another time.
I want to know your heart.
1. What could I do to cause you to feel more loved?
2. What could I do to cause you to feel more respected?
3. What could I do to cause you to feel more understood?
4. What could I do to cause you to feel more secure?
5. What could I do to cause you to feel more confident in our future direction?
6. What attribute would you most like me to develop?
7. What attribute would you like me to help you develop in yourself?
8. What achievement in my life would bring you greatest joy?
9. What would indicate to you that I really desire to be more Christ-like?
10. What mutual goal would you like us to accomplish?
From radio broadcast:
Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine of Family Life Today
Guests with list: Tom and Jeannie Elliff
TEN QUESTIONS EVERY HUSBAND SHOULD ASK HIS WIFE ANNUALLY
by Tom Elliff
Every year, Tom and Jeannie Elliff get away for a private retreat. Once, while sharing a meal in an intimate restaurant, Tom asked Jeannie these questions - he wanted to listen to his wife's words and hear from her heart.
These ten questions have become an annual exercise as Tom seeks to follow the apostle Paul's exhortation: You husbands likewise, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker vessel, since she is a woman, and grant her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. -- 1 Peter 3:7 (NASB)
Tom Elliff is the Senior Executive Vice President of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Are you up to the challenge?