• How did you meet one another? What did romance look like in the early part of your relationship?
  • What does romance look like in your relationship now?
  • Romance takes time. Do you have time set aside in your weekly schedule for one another? A date night, for example?
  • Are you able to talk about romance and non‐sexual intimacy in your marriage? What do those conversations look and feel like?
  • How would you describe romance? How would your spouse describe it?
  • What gets in the way of romance in your marriage?
  • What about romance in your marriage is not living up to your expectations or desires? What would you like to see change?
  • Have you expressed your desires to your spouse? What was their response?
  • Where do you find your model for romance? Movies? Other couples? Scripture?
  • Have you read any helpful resources on godly marital intimacy? What discoveries have you made?
  • What would your kids say about your love for one another?
  • How can I as a mentor encourage you right now in this area?
  • What does “affection” look like to you?
  • What was affection like in your family growing up (verbal and non-verbal)?
  • What would you like to be different in the way your family (or your spouse) shows affection?
  • How did your father and mother show affection differently?
  • On a scale of 1-10, how much affection do you feel like you have in your marriage right now? What would you like it to be if you could patiently and gently affect
    change?
  • Have you and your spouse discussed your sexual past with one another?  When did you do that?  Do you feel that each of you were fully honest in that disclosure?