Why Ask … Because In Love Sh** Happens!: Just About Every Question to Ask Your Mate or Date

By Indy V. Smith

Relationship expert Indy V. Smith offers advice and tips that will motivate and guide people to ask the kind of questions that will lead to finding and keeping the right person. Through a series of specific introspective questions and real-life scenarios, Indy Smith shares a valuable process that will help others: enhance communication skills; look within to discover personal needs first; identify common interests that build a lasting relationship; learn to compromise regarding physical needs, schedules, and family obligations face and overcome varying enemies of a relationship; and manage major life events together with respect. Why Ask … Because in Love Sh** Happens! offers advice and questions that will help anyone interested in forming healthy relationships based on the foundation of friendship, mutual respect, and unconditional love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Aug 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483449005

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Why Ask …

Because in Love Sh** Happens!

JUST ABOUT EVERY QUESTION TO ASK YOUR MATE OR DATE

AUTHOR

Indy V. Smith

ART BY

TeLisa Daughtry

Copyright © 2016 Vashon Smith.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

ISBN: 978-1-4834-4901-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-4900-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016904675

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 7/25/2016

Table of Contents

Let’s Be Clear

Why Ask Questions

Communication & Needs

Your Personal Questions

Trust

Emotions

Sex

Appearances

Day-to-Day Commonalities

Birthdays & Holidays

Health

Children & Parenting

Extended Family & Friends

Relationship History

Career & Goals

Finances

Your Living Environment

Emotional Intelligence

Wrapping Up

Acknowledgements

References

Let’s Be Clear

When I took responsibility and began to work on my personal issues, my relationships took on the shapes of normalcy and peace. We all have flaws (including me), but the key is to acknowledge and own them. Over the years, I’ve had to accept that loving myself means loving all of me and that level of commitment and self-awareness is what we should strive to attract in a relationship. We must be loved for the sum of who we are - not a percentage. Not everyone is going to get you and you’re not going to get everyone. Last time I checked, there are a lot of people in this world. We should all be able to get what we need from another person who wants to take the time to understand us.

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Why Ask Questions

One of life’s most beautiful privileges is the ability to ask a question.

Questions are very powerful. In spite of the fact that as children we were often told not to ask questions, they can