Before they were willing to perform a marriage, our church required all couples to go to "pre-marital counseling," which basically addresses all these issues. The fun part was that you took a multiple-choice test with lots and lots of this kind of stuff, probably a hundred questions, and you had to take it individually.
Well, we found it fun anyway. The counselor was sort of miffed that we weren't nervous at all, she said most couples were anxious to know how they "scored" as a couple. I told her if you didn't already know how you were going to score, you shouldn't be getting married. She of course agreed, but felt it was impossible for a couple to have already successfully covered all these issues on their own. We didn't get along with her very well.
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