Marriage Questions

by **Rob Graff** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:07 am

NYT has a great short piece that list the 15 questions that people should ask each other (and answer) before getting married. Makes for interesting reading -these are very real-life questions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/fashion/weddings/17FIELDBOX.html?em&ex=1168750800&en=fb168b8acf734bf0&ei=5087%0A

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by **CATLAX MAN** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:48 am

My preference for questions is similar to the Steve Guttenberg character in Diner who required his fiancee to pass a football knowledge test before he'd walk down the aisle.

by **Rob Graff** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:21 pm

True, but you are from California, where the divorce rate rises at a rate only comparable to the increase in the national debt.... Just teasing.

by **Brent Burns** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:30 pm

What I will be saying will not draw any guffaws, but I doubt Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz read the New York Times article. They just announced that they are going their separate ways. It is alleged that it had to do with Justin's decision to have Scarlett Johannson in his video. Yeah, just a very bad joke on my part.

by **Beta** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:43 pm

Brent Burns wrote:What I will be saying will not draw any guffaws, but I doubt Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz read the New York Times article. They just announced that they are going their separate ways.

I heard it was his christmas present...

by **Madlax16** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:43 pm

psh id want to have scarlet johansen in MY video. :wink:

by **DanGenck** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:52 pm

I like the "Will we have a television in the bedroom?" question. My wife and I voted against it, but sometimes I wonder...

by **ZagGrad** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:31 pm

Only 15? Try going through marriage prep in the Catholic church...150 is typical...

by **Zeuslax** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:45 pm

What about the question of who will be handling the money? paying bills, etc.....

by **Rob Graff** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:10 pm

I presume that's a sub-question to #3.

by **Zeuslax** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:12 pm

I was thinking the same thing......I can see someone sitting down with their girlfriend and saying, "ok, what about question #3 subsection a and b".

by **JRA** on Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:02 pm

What about the question of who will be handling the money? paying bills, etc.....

Married 3 years and 2 mo's.

If you both balance the personal check book, both manage the accounting for your businesses and both manage your investments together and if you have the same financial goals money is much closer to fun and less like a headache.

We make all our $$ decisions together we have the same ultimate $$ goals
and we mostly fight about the remote.