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Changed Your Mind? A Conversation Prompt for Couples

A low-pressure conversation prompt for discovering something new about the person you already know so well.

1 min readUpdated By the MiniMo team

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Tonight’s question

What’s something you’ve changed your mind about recently?

How to use it

  1. One person answers first.
    It can be something important or completely ordinary.
  2. Stay curious.
    Listen before comparing it with your own opinion.
  3. Ask one follow-up question.
    Don’t turn it into an interview. One genuine question is enough.
  4. Switch.
    Give the other person the same space to answer.

If you want to go a little deeper

“What changed your mind?”

“When did you start feeling differently?”

“Does that change anything you want now?”

“Is there something else you’ve been reconsidering lately?”

Keep it low-pressure

The point isn’t to find a profound answer. Maybe your partner has changed their mind about a food they disliked, where they’d like to travel, how they spend weekends, or what they want the next year to look like.

Small updates count.

Why we like it

Long-term relationships naturally accumulate familiarity. Questions like this make room for something slightly different: getting an updated version of the person sitting next to you.

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