Couples' Trivia: Does your BF/GF "Really" Know You?

Have you ever wondered if your boyfriend sometimes just doesn't get you? Like it's your birthday and, even though you've been dating two years plus, he's gotten you gifts that seriously don't apply to your wants or needs.

Recently this happened to me. My boyfriend, Josh, is a very loving, very caring person, and he puts a lot of thought into everything he does. However, I have noticed that he sometimes really doesn't get my hints when I bring things up. For instance, I told my boyfriend months ago that I needed my Vera Bradley planner, that he'd gotten for me some time back, refilled with new, up-to-date calendar sheets so I could start my senior year's first semester off with fresh, crisp, up-to-date entries. I'm guessing he completely forgot about this, because I ended up buying my own, cheaper, less-fancy version of what he had gotten me before. He'd told me he had the whole thing covered, yet never got around to it!

Well, my birthday was a few days ago, and come to find out, he'd ordered me a completely new agenda from Vera Bradley, months after I'd needed it! I thought it was kind of hilarious how forgetful or oblivious he was to the fact that I actually needed it months prior!! He also got me other gifts that I'd never claimed to have any intense or remote interest in, so I began to ponder the thought: does my boyfriend really know me?

Worried as I became, I started to look up couples' trivia so I could better understand him and so he could better understand me. (It's funny, because we so avidly play a game called "Quiz-up" on our phones, a game filled with multiple topics of trivia. He's level 19 and counting on Selena Gomez trivia, his celebrity crush [yes, I know, he's almost 22 and still blushin' & crushin'], so I assume he'd be an expert on me as well!)

I began to develop my own trivia questions based on youtube videos, google searches, and the like. I started to think back to my childhood, the foundation of me, and ponder what exactly I would have told him, could have told him, or knew for a fact I'd told him about myself at some point in our relationship. I used the Notes app in my phone to type a list of possible trivia cracks:

One night after work, we snuggled together and continued talking about a couples' trivia. I showed him these questions, and he, one-by-one, answered them the best he could. Some were kind of trick questions, but it made for some good quality time together.

He later told me that he enjoyed it and asked if I'd made anymore questions up for him to answer. It was actually the sweetest thing, and it's an exercise that I highly recommend for serious couples to try out. There's nothing more important in a relationship than understanding each other. Try it out!

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