• How did you first meet this other person? Were you ever close to them in the past before you were married?
  • How has this other relationship progressed from that initial friendship? Where did you start and where are you now?
  • Have strong feelings for this person surfaced (or resurfaced) and how have you been handling those feelings?
  • Do you ever hide this relationship from your spouse?
  • Do you talk to this person about problems with your spouse?
  • Do you confide things to this person about your marriage that would make your spouse feel uncomfortable?
  • Do you and this other person exchange flirtatious humor?
  • Do you think about this person when you’re with your spouse?
  • Can you tell me a little about your marriage and how you’re building into that?
  • Have you considered how having an emotional connection with the opposite sex puts your marriage at risk?
  • What does this other friendship reveal about your marriage and areas where God needs to work there?
  • Do I have your permission to be completely honest about areas of concern, even if I won’t always express those things perfectly?
  • Can you tell me a little more about your relationship with God?
  • 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?