Anniversary Questions
15 questions to ask once a year, and keep the answers.
15 questions · Free
What was the best moment of this year for us?
One phone between the two of you — the card says whose turn it is.
About Anniversary Questions
Anniversary questions are worth asking on purpose, once a year, and worth writing down. These 15 cover the year just gone and the year ahead, and their value compounds — ask the same set annually and by year five you have something genuinely worth reading.
Sample questions to get you started
- 1What was the best moment of this year for us?
- 2What was the hardest?
- 3What did you learn about me this year?
- 4What did you learn about yourself?
- 5What are you most proud of us for?
- 6What do you wish we had done more of?
- 7What did we do that you want to repeat?
- 8When did you feel closest to me this year?
- 9What surprised you this year?
- 10What are you grateful for?
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- 11What do you want next year to be about?
- 12What do you want to change about how we live?
- 13What are you looking forward to?
- 14What do you predict will happen before the next anniversary?
- 15What do you want to say to me on this anniversary?
Tap the game above to play through all prompts.
How to play Anniversary Questions
- Both answer every question, out loud.
- Write the answers down or record them.
- Read last year's answers before you start, if you have them.
- Ask the same fifteen every year.
Why couples love this game
An anniversary usually gets a meal and a card and no actual reflection. Fifteen questions turns it into a small annual record, and the record is the thing you will care about later.
Tips to make it more fun
- Recording it on a phone is easier than writing and better to revisit.
- Read last year's first. It changes this year's answers.
- Keep them somewhere you will actually find them again.
- The predictions in question fourteen are the best part in hindsight.
Frequently asked questions
What should we ask each other on our anniversary?
The same fifteen questions every year, and write the answers down. A single year's answers are pleasant; five years of them are genuinely valuable.
How do we keep the answers?
Record it on a phone. It is easier than writing during the conversation and considerably better to revisit than notes.
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