Single Seniors And Their Potential Spouses Questions To Ask

I have been thinking about life, and the people in my/our lives. When we marry, it is a very valuable step; however, when you re-marry after a divorce, or the death of a long-time spouse, you want to be even more careful in your selection of a “potential” new spouse. When we’re older, as I am, you don’t have the years to kill on someone you don’t worship, or just plain can’t continue to live with, even after you’ve taken the topple. Gals, men, you should really “think” this thing through, especially if you’ve been alone for a number of years. Remember, you’re used to doing things your own scheme now. Can you put up with someone else’s peculiarities? Can you put up with his/her children and grandchildren? Does he/she have a habit that you can’t stand? Or is the potential spouse you’re thinking about unprejudiced dull old, crabby and sickly and needs attention all the time? Well, for your sakes, you both need to learn about each other, in order not to gain a huge mistake that you will later regret. I hope you will consider it all whenever you gather to this phase of your lives.

Remember: there are no right or wrong answers here. Some of these questions may give you a chuckle, and others are quite serious. But really, who thinks of “these things” when you think you are falling in love? I’m certain I’ve missed some large questions, and you can add any you think of to your possess list, but I’ve really notion this out pretty good. Good luck and God bless you in your search for that “Special” someone because having that “Someone Special” can be a wonderful thing or the marriage you’d like to run away from. Eeks!

Before we start, you may want to grab something to drink as this is a long one. Be Pleased these food for thought issues.

Let’s take a look that things that may concern either or both of you about the kitchen and it’s jobs or way of doing things, and especially the things you like to eat.
Q… Which of these “foods” would or do you eat? Put an X by the ones you’ll eat, and XX by the ones you really like. The more X’s, the more you like this food, lol…OK?
Pork –
Chicken –
Fish –
Turkey –
Beef –
Rabbit –
Frog legs –
Shrimp –
Sweetbreads –
Head cheese –
Liver & onions –
Morel mushrooms –
Remember, if you don’t like some of the same foods, or there are allergies to consider, you will neither one be happy, in the long term of things.
Q… Do you like salads? Yes or no –
Q… Do you like to eat every 4 to 5 hours, like clockwork or do you eat when you get to the …”gee, I think I’m hungry” stage?
Q… What would be in the “ultimate” salad?
Q… And what kind of dressings do you like on your salad?
Q… What vegetables do you like or fancy?
Q… What vegetables do you hate?
Q… What is your favorite, ‘drink everyday’ cold drink?
Q… What is your favorite ‘drink everyday’ hot drink?
Q… What would be included in your most favorite meal, including the dessert and drink?
Q… When both people are retired…who does the cooking?
Q… When both people are retired…who does the dishes?
Q… Who does the grocery shopping?
Q… Do you like ice cream and what’s your favoirte brand & flavor?
Q… Who takes out the trash, and replaces the trash bags in the can?
Q… Also, who’s job is it to take the can to the curb and brings it wait on to where it belongs?
Q… If you’ve been fishing and caught fish, who cleans and guts it? Seriously, who’s job is that?
Q… Do you prefer dogs, cats, something else, or no pets at all?
Q… Do you like to eat every 4 to 5 hours?
Q… Or do you eat when you get…”gee, I’m hungry? ”
Q… Do you like, love or disapprove chocolate?
Q… What is your favorite “all-around” snack food?
Q… Do you prefer rice, potatoes or pasta?
Q… Who sweeps and mops the kitchen?
Q… What is your favorite type restaurant to “eat out”?
Q… What are five of your favorite foods?

Questions you should think about concerning the living station of your home. These could also be very important to you both.
Q… Who gets the large employ of vacuuming the house?
Q… Who loves to do the dusting?
Q… When deciding on what movie to watch, what is the deciding factor?
Q… Assuming you have a pet, how often is the dog keep outdoors?
Q… Again, assuming you have a pet, who takes it to the groomer?
Q… When watching TV, what types of programs do you like? Assume about all that would apply, especially if you do watch a lot of television
Romance –
Comedy –
Mystery –
Sit-coms -
Sci-Fi -
Religious programming -
Country music TV –
Talk shows –
News programs –
Forensic shows –
Q… What type of radio or CD’s do you listen to?
Q… Do you like the blinds or curtains open or closed?
Q… If you watching TV, what do you snack on, if anything?
Q… Does it bother you if there is some clutter in the house?

Now for the bathroom, what things should you know about the person you are eager in?
Q… Should the “toilet seat” be kept up or down? I know…odd question, but not at all. This is very important.
Q… Men: Do you clean the hair out of the sink after shaving?
Q… Guys/Gals: Do you put the lids back on the toothpaste, deep-heating rub, the Neosporin or anything else? Another lol…
Q… Do you hold bathing or showering?
Q… How often should your “distinguished other” shower or bathe?
Q… Where do you put the towel after drying?
Q… Men: If you sprinkle when you tinkle, are you a sweetie and wipe the seatie? LOL…
Q… Whose job is it to do the laundry?
Q… How often should the toilet be cleaned?
Q… And who gets the joy of cleaning the commode, sink & tub?
Q… Do you have anything against using baby powder? (no matter whose baby you are? )

Health questions you should consider:
Q… Do you ever take sleeping pills in order to sleep?
Q… Do you “fear” certain ailments to the extent that you cannot live a “normal” life?
Q… Considering foods, trees, flowers, air quality, medicines, personal care products… Are you allergic to anything?
Q… Do you smoke?
Q… Do you drink alcoholic beverages?
Q… Do you have? :
OCD –
Heart disease –
Diabetes –
Arthritis -
Cancer –
High Blood Pressure –
How many Rx’s do you rob?
Back problems –
ED –
Anything else not mentioned? –
Q… Do you take vitamins, minerals or other “fine for you” supplements?
Q… Do you spend at all?
Q… What kind of exercise do you get?
Q… Do you walk for health?
Q… What is your current “health regime”?

Personal preferences: think about what you prefer or maybe it doesn’t matter:
Q… Guys, do you prefer long or short hair on women?
Q… Guys, do you capture gals in pants or dresses?
Q… Gals, do you prefer men in jeans & t-shirts or dressed up?
Q… Do you prefer beards or clean-shaven?
Q… Gals, do you prefer bald or full haired men?
Q… Lots of jewelry on your partner or not?
Q… When you eat out, do you prefer a quiet, intimate atmosphere or a busy, noisy place?
Q… Could you be happily married if it meant…no sex, ever?
Q… If your partner farted or burped in public, would you be embarrassed or joke about it?
Q… If your partner did that at home, would you laugh about it? I told you… this is personal stuff, LOL.
Q… Do you prefer dogs, cats, something else, or no pets at all?
Q… Do you hang up your clothes if they can be extinct again, or do you throw them on the floor or on a piece of furniture?
Q… Do you like your clothes ironed or don’t care?
Q… In the winter, do you bundle up right good, or go without a coat sometimes?
Q… Do you wear a hat?
Q… Do you expend an umbrella when it rains?
Q… Do you usually drive too fast or always try to follow the speed limit?
Q… If your partner gained 50 or more lbs., would you still love them and want to be with them?
Q… Would the extra weight “turn you off”?
Q… If your spouse was in the hospital for a month, what would you do to occupy your time while they were sick?
Q… Are you a trim person, some sort of slob, or something in-between?
Q… Would you marry someone you met on the Internet?
Q… Do you utilize curse words, yes, no or sometimes?
Q… Do you, or would you be willing to attend church on a “regular” basis?
Q…Are you a “giving” person?
Q…Are you a “creative” person? How?
Q. Do you “give” to charities?
Q… Do you give to your church, if you attend?
Q… Are you ever self-centered?
Q… Do you sometimes give your sweetie unexpected or itsy-bitsy gifts, just because?
Q… Do you like to go for rides to nowhere in particular?
Q… Do you whine at all?
Q… Do you gamble?
Q… If you’re shopping in a store, do you buy your sweetie something, “just because”?

The enormous outdoors: acknowledge and explain these things to consider:
Q… Is mowing the grass a man’s or woman’s job? (trick question? ), lol.
Q… Whose job is it to take the trash can to the curb and bring it back?
Q… What do you like to do in your spare time, in the substantial outdoors?
Q… Do you like to go camping in a camper?
Q… Do you like to go fishing?
Q… From a boat or on the bank?
Q… Do you like rivers, lakes, oceans & waterfalls?
Q… Where’s your favorite outdoor place to be?
Q… What is your current bird?
Q… Do you like flowers?
Q… What is your favorite flower?
Q… How do you feel about “wind chimes”?
Q… Do you like the snow?
Q… Can you drive in snow and/or ice?
Q… Do you like to sled or ski?
Q… Do you like campfires?
Q… Do you like to garden?
Q… Do you like to “can” your own foods sometimes?
Q… Do you like to cook?
Q… Do you like wieners roasted over an open campfire?
Q… Do you like roasted marshmallows?
Q… Do you like to sit on the porch swing with your sweetie and just relax there for awhile?

And now, questions to consider for the bedroom:
Q… Do you like to snuggle, hug & kiss before you go to sleep?
Q… Do you like to snuggle, hug & kiss again before getting up in the morning?
Q… Is the snuggling before and after sleep mandatory, to be happy or on a “as-needed” basis?
Q… Can you be overjoyed in a marriage that is without sex, because of a medical condition?
Q… Do you like it icy in the bedroom, summer & winter, when you sleep?
Q… Do you like a nightlight on in the bedroom at night?
Q… Do you like other night-lights on in the house at night?
Q… Do you sleep with a fan on?
Q… Do you sleep in pajama’s, in underwear, nude or something else?
Q… Do you like “touchy-feely” or are you the “hands-off” type?
Q… Do you like your body or the shape it’s in?
Q… What do you like least about your body?
Q… What is your best physical feature?
Q… Do you have nice feet or gross toenails, lol?
Q… Do you like the blankets “tucked-in” or hanging loose?
Q… Do you like the bed linens washed once a week or oftener?
Q… Do you leer TV in bed?
Q… Do you read in bed?
Q… Do you slobber when you sleep? lol…
Q… Do you snore when you sleep?
Q… Do you toss & turn a lot in your sleep?
Q… Do you ever have insomnia?
Q… If you do have insomnia, what do you do when you can’t sleep or when you wake and can’t go back to sleep?

Some miscellaneous questions you should consider:
Q… Do you like to use the computer?
Q… How many hours a day do you use it?
Q… Do you play computer games?
Q… What do you like to do in your spare time?
Q… Do you easily get bored?
Q… What do you do when you get bored?
Q… Do you play a musical instrument and what?
Q… Do you play board games or cards?
Q… Do you like to have family or friends visit often?
Q… Do you like to go to family or friends houses to visit?
Q… Do you enjoy “unexpected” company?
Q… How many grandchildren do you have?
Q… Do you spoil your grandkids?
Q… Do you ever baby-sit your grandkids?
Q… Do you buy them all Christmas and/or birthday presents?
Q… Are YOUR children perfect or close to it?
Q… Do you ever loan your kids money?
Q… Do they always pay it befriend?
Q… Do you ever like to have candles burning?
Q… Would you ever loan your car to a friend or family member?
Q… Do you like the scent of incense burning?
Q… Do you like to open the windows, in nice weather, to let the fresh air in?
Q… Do you have any bad habits?
Q… Do you have any good habits?
Q… Are you concerned with Global Warming?
Q… Do you recycle anything and what?
Q… Do you ever throw anything out of your car window?
Q… Do you like it really warm in your home in the winter, or unprejudiced moderately warm?
Q… What is the ‘perfect’ temperature outside, in your opinion?
Q… What is your favorite season?
Q… Do you like to swim?
Q… Do you watch sports on TV and what?
Q… Do you help sports events and what?
Q… Would you like to attend a Gospel Concert?
Q… Do you like to attend secular music concerts?
Q… Will you be elated when this “thing” ends?
Q…How do you know you really “Love” someone?
Q… Do you abominate being away from him/her, or are you thinking, “I’ll sure be glad when they leave.”?

I hope you enjoyed this little part and I hope this has given you some ideas of what to look for and think about when considering dating or marriage. We all cherish the thought of appreciate, but we should be sure it’s what we want for our futures. I’ll unprejudiced leave you with your thoughts and this little quote from an unknown source…Don’t just marry someone you consider you can live with…marry someone you know you can’t live without. ….God bless you in your search.

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