Religion

1. What are your religious or metaphysical beliefs?  Why are we here?

2. What happens to us after death?

3. How do you determine right from wrong?

4. How important is your religion to you?

5. Should religion play a larger role in our government and its laws?

6. Is there a system of ethics apart from religion, or common to all religions?

7. Is regular church attendance important?

8. Which religions are acceptable in a partner?  Which religions are unacceptable?

9. What religious training would you like your children to receive?  What if your child adopts a different religion, or shows no interest in religion at all?

Politics

1. What does your government owe you, as a resident of this country?  Does it owe you more if you are a citizen?  A taxpayer?

2. What do you owe your government?

3. Does it matter whether you vote?  Why?

4. Which current political party most closely approximates your views?

5. Did we avoid World War III because of or in spite of the massive increases in nuclear weapons?

6. When does the government have the right to intervene in an individual's private affairs (e.g. making drug use illegal)?

7. When can a government take children away from parents?  Is abject poverty sufficient cause?  When might said children be returned to their parents?

8. When is the death penalty warranted?

9. When does a cell, embryo, fetus, or infant attain the rights of a separate individual?

10. Which is the greater injustice: a guilty man acquitted or an innocent man convicted?  How many of the former are needed to compensate for one of the latter?  This is one of the precious few questions of philosophy that is not based on religion or metaphysics, and it tends to drive most of your opinions on the judicial system.

11. Name a couple U.S. presidents that you admire, and a couple that you dislike.  What actions or characteristics made these men good or bad presidents?

12. Aside from the superficial physical features, are there innate differences among the races?

13. Would it matter if your child married somebody of another race or culture?

Vices

1. Do you smoke, drink alcohol, take illicit drugs, or gamble (to excess)?  Would you accept these behaviors in your partner?

2. If your partner developed a drinking problem, how would you handle it?

3. Do you engage in risky behaviors such as sky-diving, hang-gliding, or motorcycle racing?  Would it be prudent to suspend these behaviors while you are raising a family?

4. How many hours a week are consumed by sports?  This includes participating, watching, and reading about.

5. Do you receive sexual stimulation from magazines or websites?  does this detract from a healthy marriage?

Sleeping

1. Do you like the bedroom windows open or closed?

2. Do you snore?  Can you sleep next to a snoring partner?

3. Do you like the tv or radio on while you sleep?

4. Do you like to cuddle with your partner through the night, or do you need your own space?

5. Do snooze alarms drive you crazy!

6. If your sleeping habbits are incompatible, or become so in the future, can you sleep in different rooms?  (This is not unusual for older couples.)

Eating

1. What are some of your favorite meals?  What foods do you detest?

2. How many times a week do you like to eat out?  What are your favorite restaurants?

3. Do you make an effort to cook/eat healthy, or do you eat whatever comes out of a box?

4. Do medical conditions constrain your diet?

5. Are you a vegetarian?

6. If your eating habbits are quite dissimilar from your partner's, can you compromise on some common meals, or must you cook and eat separate dishes most nights?