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Conflict and Repair Questions for Couples

Understand how each of you wants to pause, listen and return after a disagreement. Use specific examples and small repair requests without assigning blame scores.

Take turns answering; ask a follow-up when something catches your curiosity.

How to play
  1. Read one prompt aloud, or share this page alongside your usual call.
  2. Take turns answering. Ask one follow-up before moving on.
  3. Skip anything that does not fit the mood. A good conversation can be your last round.
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What is an early sign that a discussion is becoming too fast for you?

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All 20 questions

Browse at your own pace, or explore the cards above. Pick what fits the two of you today.

Questions 1–20
  1. What is an early sign that a discussion is becoming too fast for you?

  2. How can we ask for a pause while making clear that we intend to return?

  3. Which words help you feel that your point was heard accurately?

  4. What do you need before you can consider a different interpretation?

  5. How should we decide whether we are discussing one event or a recurring pattern?

  6. What is a fair way to bring up a concern when the timing is difficult?

  7. Which kind of explanation feels helpful, and which feels like an excuse?

  8. What would help us keep one disagreement from collecting unrelated grievances?

  9. How can we tell when we are trying to understand versus trying to win?

  10. What would a useful summary of your view sound like from me?

  11. Which part of a recent disagreement deserves acknowledgment before solutions?

  12. How do we want to respond when we remember an event differently?

  13. What is a clear request we could make instead of hoping the other person guesses?

  14. Which practical step would show that a conversation led somewhere?

  15. What helps you reconnect without pretending the issue never happened?

  16. How can we make room for both impact and intention without using either to cancel the other?

  17. What should we do when the immediate problem is solved but a feeling remains?

  18. Which old conflict habit would you like us to replace with one smaller action?

  19. How would we know that an agreement needs revisiting rather than more effort?

  20. After a difficult talk, what reminds you we're still a team?

A little permission to take it slowly.

Choose one question when you have time to listen. There is no need to get through the whole collection.

These are informal conversation prompts. They do not diagnose an attachment style, assess your mental health or measure whether a relationship will succeed.