Couples Survey

A stolen post from tif-do. (Just the questions, not the answers.)

1] What are your middle names? Anne and Alan (We planned to have all our kids have A middle names, but Dylan got Arthur and that left Alan for Ethan. Ethan Alan? No thanks. He got a B middle name instead.)

[2] How long have you been together? Since December 1993

[3] How long did you know each other before you started dating? Two years. (He’s my brother-in-law’s younger brother, and I wasn’t exactly old enough to get married when I met him.)

[4] Who asked whom out? I bribed Nathan to go country dancing with me. Totally bribed him. How’s that for romantic?

[5] How old are each of you? 34 and 37, but he looks younger than me, dang it.

[6] What are your astrological signs? I’m a Taurus, and he’s a Capricorn, which I didn’t know until I looked it up for this survey.

[7] When was your first kiss? Finals week in December 1993. He was supposed to be helping me study for a Spanish final. Didn’t get much studying done, but I passed anyway.

[8] Who's mother do you see the most? Pretty equal, since they live close to each other.

[9]Who's father? His

[10] Do you have any children together? Yep all 4 of them

[11] What about pets? We have four kids. Who needs a pet?

[12] Do you have a song? You can’t cram fourteen years of marriage into a single song. Certain songs remind me of eras in our marriage.

[13] Which bill is the hardest on you as a couple? No one in particular. I hate the whole process

[14] Who pays the bills? I do.

[15] Who drives and who sits shotgun? He always drives, because he thinks I drive too slow, and I hate him bugging me about how I drive.

[16] Did you go to the same school? No, but I taught at his alma mater with two teachers who taught him. That was kind of funny.

[17] Are you from the same hometown? No


[18] Do you live in the same town now? We don’t even live in the same STATE!

[19] Who is the smartest? I’m the book-smart girl; he’s the guy with all the common sense.

[20] Who is the most sensitive? Sensitive. Was that an option in a man? Oh, I guess I missed that one. Just kidding!


[21] Where do you eat out at most as a couple? When we lived in a city, we had favorite restaurants; now we usually eat somewhere different each time.

[22] Where do you shop the most as a couple? Target and Costco—if they don’t sell it, most likely we don’t have it!

[23] Where is the furthest you have traveled as a couple? We don’t travel as a couple. We travel as a family, and this last 1890 mile trip took the cake on that one!

[24] Who has the best group of friends? Me. Nathan is noncommittal when it comes to friends.


[25] Who has the craziest exes? Me, since I have like fifteen and Nathan has one—a doozy, but still, only one?

[26] Who has the worst temper? I’m the fly-off-the-handle tantrum that ends in five seconds. If he get’s mad, he can stay mad awhile.

[27] Who does the cooking? Me.


[28] Who is more social? Definitely me.

[29] Who is the neat-freak? Neither. Sort of a problem area there!

[30] Who is the most affectionate? Me.

[31] Who is the most stubborn? Him, but he would say I was.

[32] Who hogs the bed? Him.

[33] Who wakes up earlier? Him.

[34] Where was your first date? Country dancing in Moscow, ID

[35] Who said I Love You first? Probably me. He didn’t say he loved me until AFTER we were married. (That was sort of a big risk for me to marry him anyway, don’t you think?)

[36] Who has the bigger family? Him

[37] Do you give/get flowers often? No

[38] How do you spend the holidays? We travel home and generally go to both families.

[39] Do you have cute little names for each other? We’re a “honey” couple. Although he has some not-so-nice names that he jokingly calls me that absolutely astound the guys he works with. They’re all surprised I haven’t left him yet.