Ranking of Your Emotional Needs
The ten basic emotional needs are listed below. There is also space for you to add other emotional needs that you feel are essential to your marital happiness, but are not included in the list.
In the space provided in front of each need, write a number from 1 to 5 that ranks the needs most important to your happiness. Write a “1” before the most important need, a “2” before the next most important, and so on until you have ranked all five.
To help you rank these needs, imagine that you will only have one need met in your marriage. Which would make you the happiest, knowing that all the others would go unmet? That need should be “1.” If only two needs would be met, what would your second selection be? Which five needs, when met, would make you the happiest.