Questions to Ask Your Boyfriend
15 questions that get past "fine" and "I don't know".
15 questions · Free
What was the most annoying part of today?
One phone between the two of you — the card says whose turn it is.
About Questions to Ask Your Boyfriend
Questions to ask your boyfriend only work if they cannot be answered with one word. These 15 are all built that way — they ask for a story, a specific moment, or a position on something, none of which survive a shrug.
Sample questions to get you started
- 1What was the most annoying part of today?
- 2What is something you are looking forward to that has nothing to do with me?
- 3What do your friends think I am like?
- 4What is something you have never told me about your family?
- 5What were you like at seventeen?
- 6What is something you want to be better at?
- 7What is the best thing anyone has ever said to you?
- 8What do you worry about that you do not mention?
- 9What is something you would do if you had more time?
- 10What is the hardest thing you have been through?
Show all 15 questions
- 11What do you think I do not understand about you?
- 12What do you want from the next few years?
- 13What is something you would like more of from me?
- 14What do you find hardest about being with me?
- 15What do you never want to change about us?
Tap the game above to play through all prompts.
How to play Questions to Ask Your Boyfriend
- Ask one at a time rather than working through the list.
- Answer it yourself first — it makes the second answer twice as long.
- Follow up once with "why?" and then let it go.
- Three or four in an evening is plenty.
Why couples love this game
The complaint is usually not that he will not talk but that the questions have no purchase. "How was your day" invites "fine"; "what was the most annoying part of today" does not, because it asks for something specific enough to require an actual answer.
Tips to make it more fun
- Never read the whole list out. One at a time, phone away.
- Side by side works better than face to face — driving, walking, cooking.
- Do not treat a short answer as a refusal. Wait.
- Skip anything that sounds like a test.
Frequently asked questions
What are good questions to ask your boyfriend?
Specific ones. "What was the most annoying part of today?" gets an answer where "how was your day?" gets "fine", because it asks for something particular rather than a summary.
What if he gives short answers?
Wait rather than asking again, and answer the question yourself first next time. Going first reliably doubles the length of the second answer.
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