Senior Couples Try the 36 Questions That Lead to Love

By SAMANTHA STARK and BONNIE WERTHEIM 11/17/17

In 2015, the writer Mandy Len Catron invited Modern Love readers to join her in an experiment. First, find someone you’d like to know better — ideally, a person you view as a romantic prospect. Then, ask each other a series of increasingly intimate questions and see where the experience takes the two of you.

Ms. Catron couldn’t have known then how many couples would come to credit the questions for their unions, or how many strangers would try, and fail, to connect by using them. But what about those who are pretty sure they already know everything about each other?

We had a group of senior couples try out the questions to see.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/style/36-questions-senior-couples.html