An absolute shocker this week from Bross Bennett, a London-based family law practice. It's a patronising and sphincter-tightening 'quiz' with which you should approach your beloved before you get hitched (although if you still manage to get hitched to your beloved after working through it, you're obviously on to a winner). There are lots of tedious (and tediously sensible) questions about financial disclosure and the like, but it's the few mental left-field ones which really catch the eye. Here are the highlights...

Bross Bennett’s Compatibility Quiz: Essential Questions Every Couple Should Ask

When marriages break down, each party must complete a Form E Financial Statement; this 25 page “full and frank disclosure” is effectively the Exit Interview.  Bross Bennett, one of the largest and most experienced niche family law practices in London, is calling for couples to do the Compatibility Quiz before getting married or setting up home together.

Ruth Bross, Partner of Bross Bennett, prefaces the quiz by stating "no one who is truly committed to a relationship will ever mind making the full and frank disclosure that is asked of them; if they do, you might like to ask yourself why.”

Financial Stuff

Do you know the extent of each other’s assets?  How do you both view the sharing of these assets?
Do you have the same attitude to saving?  Will one of you want to put into a pension what the other wants to put into a new car?

blah blah blah - so far, so vanilla. Fear not, the descent into madness is soon to come...
             
Family Ties

What sort of relationship do you have with your extended family?  Are they good at staying in touch?  Are they local?  Affectionate? Over-involved?  Have you had any major fallings out?

Well, my Uncle Arthur can get a bit gropey on Christmas day. Here are the best ones.

Leisure and fun

Do you like doing the same things in your spare time?  Do you share common interests?  Is your idea of a holiday lying flat on the beach for two weeks and your partner’s rock climbing in Snowdonia?

Lifestyle
               
Do you have any other secret addictions – handbags, chocolate, football, porn?
Do you gamble – online or otherwise?

Honesty
               
Are there any old flames for whom you still hold a candle?

Mental.