Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women Updated by Les & Leslie Parrott

Author:Les & Leslie Parrott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
Published: 2015-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Exercise Seventeen

YOUR TOP TEN NEEDS

IF YOU ARE USING the SYMBIS Assessment you may want to refer to the Dynamics: Gender page of your personalized report as it relates to this exercise. Either way, this workbook exercise will help you identify some of your deepest needs in a marriage relationship and communicate those needs to your partner. It will take about twenty to thirty minutes.

Listed below are some of the most common needs that people identify as being important in marriage. Rate how important each of these items is for you. If you wish to add other items not included in our list, please do so. As always, do this on your own before discussing it with your partner.

Not that

important Very

important

Admiration 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Affection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Commitment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Companionship 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Conversation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Financial support 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Honesty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Intimacy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Personal space 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Respect 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Rootedness 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Security 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Sex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Shared activities 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

_________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

_________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Now that you have completed rating the needs, rank them in order of importance. Next, share the results with your partner.

What needs do both of you identify as important?

Discuss what needs are most important to you personally. As you discuss them, explain what that need means to you. Men and women often mean different things even when they use the same word (e.g., intimacy).

Finally, discuss how each of your needs might change as you grow in marriage.

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