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21 Questions to Ask Your Boyfriend

Questions to ask your boyfriend and grow closer

Long past the small-talk stage, the best questions for a boyfriend are the ones he does not get asked often: what he is proud of, what he is carrying, and what he pictures when he pictures the two of you.

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Question #1

What is one memory of us you replay when you miss me?

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#1
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What is one memory of us you replay when you miss me?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • When do you miss me most?
#2
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What was going through your head on our first date?

Follow-ups: Were you nervous? • Did I find out later?
#3
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What is something I do that you find adorable without realizing?

Follow-ups: When did you notice it? • Should I do it more?
#4
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When did you first realize you wanted to be with me?

Follow-ups: Was it a moment or a slow build? • Did you tell anyone?
#5
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What is your favorite thing about how we handle disagreements?

Follow-ups: What do we do well? • What could we improve?
#6
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What is one thing you want us to do every single week?

Follow-ups: Why weekly? • When do we start?
#7
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If our relationship had a soundtrack, what song opens it?

Follow-ups: Why that song? • What song closes it?
#8
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How have you changed since we started dating?

Follow-ups: Do you like the change? • Did I cause it or reveal it?
#9
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What is your favorite way I say your name?

Follow-ups: When do I say it best? • What do I call you that you secretly love?
#10
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What is one thing you brag about me to your friends?

Follow-ups: What do they say back? • What else is on the list?
#11
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What is the most at home you have ever felt with me?

Follow-ups: What was happening? • How can we get there more?
#12
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What is something you want me to always know about you?

Follow-ups: Why is it important? • Do I know it yet?
#13
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What is your favorite outfit I wear?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • When do I wear it next?
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What holiday tradition do you want us to make our own?

Follow-ups: What would it involve? • Which holiday claims it?
#15
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What is the best date we have ever been on, and why?

Follow-ups: What made it work? • Can we top it?
#16
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What is something small I do that means more to you than I know?

Follow-ups: When did you notice? • Should I keep doing it?
#17
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What is one thing you would love to hear me say more often?

Follow-ups: Why that? • What stops me?
#18
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What is your favorite photo of us and why?

Follow-ups: Where was it taken? • Is it your wallpaper?
#19
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What is something you were afraid to tell me at first?

Follow-ups: How did I react? • What else are you holding?
#20
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What do you think is our superpower as a couple?

Follow-ups: When did it show up? • What is our kryptonite?
#21
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What is something you are proud of that you rarely mention?

Follow-ups: Why keep it quiet? • Can I brag about you?
#22
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What is a worry you carry that you could share with me?

Follow-ups: How can I help? • Why have you kept it?
#23
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What is the best decision you made this year?

Follow-ups: What made it hard? • Did it surprise you?
#24
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What is something you used to care about that you have let go of?

Follow-ups: What changed? • Do you miss it?
#25
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What is a compliment that actually changed how you see yourself?

Follow-ups: Who gave it? • Do you believe it now?
#26
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What is something you are better at than you give yourself credit for?

Follow-ups: Who sees it in you? • Why do you downplay it?
#27
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What is one thing that instantly ruins your mood?

Follow-ups: How do you recover? • How can I help?
#28
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What is one thing that instantly fixes your mood?

Follow-ups: When did you last need it? • Can I do it right now?
#29
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What is a fear you have conquered, and how?

Follow-ups: Would you do it again? • What is next on the list?
#30
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What is something you believe that most people around you do not?

Follow-ups: Where did it come from? • Do you argue for it?
#31
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What is the hardest goodbye you have ever said?

Follow-ups: How did you get through it? • Did it change you?
#32
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What is one thing you wish your younger self knew?

Follow-ups: Would he have listened? • How did you learn it?
#33
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What is a moment that changed how you see the world?

Follow-ups: What happened? • How do you see it now?
#34
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What is something you are quietly working on improving?

Follow-ups: How is it going? • Can I cheer you on?
#35
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What is the most misunderstood thing about you?

Follow-ups: Why do people get it wrong? • Do I get it right?
#36
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What is something you need more of in your life right now?

Follow-ups: What is getting in the way? • How can I help?
#37
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What is something you have too much of in your life right now?

Follow-ups: What would letting go look like? • When do you start?
#38
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What is a small kindness from a stranger you never forgot?

Follow-ups: Why did it stick? • Have you paid it forward?
#39
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What is the best advice you ignored but later followed?

Follow-ups: What took so long? • Who gave it?
#40
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What is one thing you want to be remembered for?

Follow-ups: Are you on track? • Does it matter who remembers?
#41
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What is one trip you are determined we take together?

Follow-ups: When are we going? • What is the highlight?
#42
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Where would you love to live with me someday?

Follow-ups: City or quiet? • What does the place look like?
#43
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What is a goal you want us to crush as a team this year?

Follow-ups: What is step one? • How do we celebrate?
#44
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What does your ideal ordinary Tuesday with me look like?

Follow-ups: Food involved? • What time do we wake up?
#45
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What is something you want to build with me — a home, a business, a tradition?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • What is the first brick?
#46
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What is one milestone you are excited for us to reach?

Follow-ups: Why does it matter? • How will we mark it?
#47
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How do you picture us in ten years?

Follow-ups: What stays the same? • What surprised you about your answer?
#48
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What is a skill you want us to learn together?

Follow-ups: Why together? • Who will be better at it?
#49
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What is one thing you want to teach me?

Follow-ups: Why that skill? • How patient will you be?
#50
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What is something you want me to show you how to do?

Follow-ups: Why me? • When is lesson one?
#51
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What is a pet name you secretly want me to use?

Follow-ups: Where did it come from? • In public or private only?
#52
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What is one rule you think every couple should have?

Follow-ups: Why that rule? • Do we follow it?
#53
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What is something you want to stop doing as a couple?

Follow-ups: Why now? • What replaces it?
#54
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What is something you want to start doing as a couple?

Follow-ups: What is stopping us? • When do we begin?
#55
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What is one thing you would defend about our relationship to anyone?

Follow-ups: Why do people question it? • What makes it strong?
#56
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What is the most romantic thing you imagine doing for me someday?

Follow-ups: What is the plan? • Is it a secret?
#57
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What is one thing you want to apologize for that you never did?

Follow-ups: Why now? • How can I make it easy?
#58
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What is one thing you want me to apologize for?

Follow-ups: Why have you held it? • What would fix it?
#59
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What is a promise you never want to break with me?

Follow-ups: Why is it sacred? • Have we made it out loud?
#60
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What is one thing you hope we never stop doing?

Follow-ups: Why does it matter? • When did it start?
#61
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If we had a couple theme song to walk in slow motion to, what would it be?

Follow-ups: Who picks the tempo? • Where is the scene?
#62
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If we robbed a bank together, what would each of us be in charge of?

Follow-ups: Who cracks under pressure? • Do we get away?
#63
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If we were stuck at an airport overnight, how would we survive?

Follow-ups: Who sleeps on the bench? • What is our snack strategy?
#64
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If we entered a talent show as a duo, what would our act be?

Follow-ups: Do we win? • Who is the star?
#65
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If we had to eat one meal together every day for a year, what would it be?

Follow-ups: Who cooks? • What breaks first?
#66
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If we could adopt any animal together, what would it be?

Follow-ups: What do we name it? • Who walks it?
#67
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If our relationship was a reality show, what would it be called?

Follow-ups: Who is the villain? • How many seasons?
#68
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If we swapped bodies for a day, what would you do first?

Follow-ups: What would you avoid? • What would surprise you?
#69
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If we could instantly master one dance, what would it be?

Follow-ups: Where do we perform it? • Who leads?
#70
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If you had 24 hours and an unlimited budget for us, what is the plan?

Follow-ups: Where does it start? • What is the grand finale?
#71
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What is the silliest thing you have done to impress me?

Follow-ups: Did it work? • Would you do it again?
#72
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What is the weirdest thing you find attractive about me?

Follow-ups: When did you notice? • Do I know I do it?
#73
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What is one guilty pleasure of yours I should know about?

Follow-ups: How guilty is it? • Can we share it?
#74
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What is the most embarrassing thing your family knows about you?

Follow-ups: Do they bring it up? • Can I use it against you?
#75
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What is a conspiracy theory you find weirdly entertaining?

Follow-ups: How deep does it go? • What percent do you believe?
#76
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What is one value you will never trade away?

Follow-ups: Where did it come from? • Has it been tested?
#77
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What is something you think you were born to do?

Follow-ups: What is stopping you? • How can I help?
#78
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What is a hard lesson a past relationship taught you?

Follow-ups: How did it change you? • Are you grateful for it?
#79
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What is one thing you want your future family to look like?

Follow-ups: What traditions matter? • What do I fit into?
#80
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What is something you think makes a man a good man?

Follow-ups: Who showed you that? • Do you see it in yourself?
#81
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What is one thing you hope to carry from your family into ours someday?

Follow-ups: Why that thing? • What do you leave behind?
#82
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What is something you think we handle better than most couples?

Follow-ups: What is our secret? • Who taught us?
#83
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What is one thing you think we should ask each other more often?

Follow-ups: Why that question? • Ask me now?
#84
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What is a boundary you are glad you set with me?

Follow-ups: Why was it hard? • How did I respond?
#85
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What is something you forgave me for that I never knew about?

Follow-ups: Why keep it quiet? • Should I have known?
#86
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What is something you want to forgive yourself for?

Follow-ups: What would help? • Can I help carry it?
#87
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What is one thing money could never buy that we already have?

Follow-ups: When did you realize it? • How do we protect it?
#88
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What is the most generous thing you have ever done?

Follow-ups: Why did you do it? • Did they ever find out?
#89
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What is something you want to stand up for, no matter what?

Follow-ups: Why does it matter? • What would it cost?
#90
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What is one thing you would change about the world if you could?

Follow-ups: Where would you start? • What can we do today?
#91
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What is your favorite part of the day to text me?

Follow-ups: Why then? • What do I usually say?
#92
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What is one small routine of mine you secretly love?

Follow-ups: When did you notice? • Do I know you watch?
#93
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What is your favorite meal I have made or ordered for you?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • When is round two?
#94
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What is one thing you do every day that you think I do not notice?

Follow-ups: Why do you do it? • Should I notice more?
#95
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What is your favorite way to spend a lazy day together?

Follow-ups: Couch or outdoors? • What is on the playlist?
#96
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What is one thing you would add to our weekends?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Which weekend starts it?
#97
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What is your favorite thing about my cooking — or my takeout orders?

Follow-ups: What is my signature? • What should I learn next?
#98
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What is one thing you wish we did more of on weeknights?

Follow-ups: Why do we not? • What is in the way?
#99
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What is your favorite place to sit next to me?

Follow-ups: Why there? • What do we usually do there?
#100
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What is one thing you look forward to when we are apart?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How do you count down?
#101
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What is the most romantic dream you have had about us?

Follow-ups: What happened in it? • Should we make it real?
#102
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What is one thing I could text you that would make your whole day?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Have I sent it yet?
#103
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What is your favorite way to say goodbye to me?

Follow-ups: Why that way? • Who says it better?
#104
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What is one thing you love about holding my hand?

Follow-ups: When do you reach for it? • Where is our favorite place to walk?
#105
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What is one thing you want to whisper to me right now?

Follow-ups: Why whisper it? • What is my answer?