Writing and answering the questions below.
- What types of skills are necessary to achieve marital success? Do you believe people enter marriage with the skills you've identified as being necessary for success? Why?
- What myths have you heard about marriage? Do you believe any of them? Why?
- What types of marriage have you experienced? Consider your parents, grandparents, siblings, and, if applicable, your own marriage when answering this question.
- What are your views on inter-racial and inter-faith marriages? Do you think these marriages have any advantages or disadvantages from homogeneous marriages?
- Are you a "giver" or a "taker" in relationships? What about your significant other? Are you comfortable in this role in your relationships?
- What marital adjustments have you needed to make? What about your significant other? If you have never married, what marital adjustments do you think your parents needed to make?