50 Conversation Starters for Couples (For Dinner, Car Rides and Lazy Nights)

After a while, conversations with your partner can shrink to three topics: food, plans and “did you pay that bill?” Conversation starters bring back the talks you used to have when you were just getting to know each other.

Here are 50 conversation starters for couples, for dinner, car rides and lazy evenings.

Fun conversation starters

1. If we opened a restaurant together, what would we serve?
2. What is the most useless thing you know a lot about?
3. What would your entrance song be?
4. If you could swap lives with anyone for a week, who?
5. What is a trend you never understood?
6. What would you name a boat?
7. Which fictional character are you most like?
8. What is a hill you will die on?
9. What would you do with a free afternoon and $100?
10. What is the funniest thing that happened to you this year?

Nostalgic conversation starters

1. What is your favorite memory from when we first started dating?
2. What was your favorite toy growing up?
3. What is a song that takes you straight back to being 16?
4. What was the best vacation of your childhood?
5. What is something you miss about the old days?
6. Who was your best friend in school, and what happened?
7. What is your favorite family tradition?
8. What did you want to be when you grew up?
9. What was your first concert?
10. What is the best birthday you have ever had?

Future conversation starters

1. Where do you want to live in five years?
2. What is one skill you want to learn together?
3. What trip should we take next?
4. What would our dream home have?
5. What is something you want to change this year?
6. What is a tradition you want us to start?
7. How do you imagine us on a random Tuesday in ten years?
8. What is a big dream you are scared to go for?
9. What is one thing on your bucket list we should do together?
10. If money was no object, what would you do?

Deep conversation starters

1. What is something you have been thinking about a lot lately?
2. When did you last feel really proud of yourself?
3. What is something you want me to understand better about you?
4. What is a fear you have gotten over?
5. What is the best thing about us right now?
6. What do you need more of from me?
7. What has been hard for you lately?
8. What is a lesson you learned the hard way?
9. What makes you feel most at home?
10. What is something you are grateful for today?

Flirty conversation starters

1. What is your favorite thing about the way I look today?
2. When was the last time I made you blush?
3. What is one date we should repeat?
4. What is something you want to do with me this weekend?
5. What do you think about when you miss me?
6. What is my most attractive habit?
7. What is your favorite way I kiss you?
8. What outfit should I wear on our next date?
9. What was going through your head the first time we kissed?
10. What should we do tonight?