Marriage Question Toss
In the hussle and hurts of life it can be easy to make connection in marriage a low priority. Tiredness often wins out over thoughtfulness and soon our marriage no longer feels like the most important relationship in our lives. Kids thrive when marriages thrive. Friendships thrive when marriages thrive. The world thrives when marriages thrive.
One day you will look around and see that your kids have grown and have independent lives. Your friendships have changed over the years, some have left, some have stayed, but none are sleeping beside you night after night.
Your spouse is the one person who will be with you day in and day out, until one of you dies. Don’t you want that person to not be a stranger? To be someone you know and who knows you deeply. To have experienced hurts but also the freeing power of forgiveness. To have worked together to become more of who God made you to be.
Doing little things to develop your connection, challenge yourselves into growth, and build your marriage are of immeasurable value. Date nights and getaways are wonderful, but even from your home, a normal weekday evening can turn into a fun time of connection and growth and memory making.
Whether your marriage is strong and thriving or barely hanging on, it’s always a benefit to ask good questions and have fun while doing so. After years together it can be hard to know what questions to ask each other. So we put together a few questions in 5 key areas of marriage to spur on some fun, helpful, and provocative conversation. Just sitting and talking isn’t everyone’s idea of fun so we added a little game element to how to go about asking the questions that will loosen you up and make it more fun.
Download and print both the Game Board and the Question List and follow the directions below.
- Print out the Game Board and Question List, if you don’t have a printer just grab a paper and draw your own Game Board similarly with the 5 categories on a page.
- Place the Game Board on the ground at least 8 ft away from where you will both stand.
- Collect a handful of pebbles, coins, nuts, lego pieces, anything you can toss onto the game board. Divide the objects evenly among you and your spouse.
- Take turns tossing one pebble at a time onto the game board.
- When you land on a category, look at the Question List and pick one question from that category to ask your spouse.
- The first person to ask a question from every category is the winner.
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