Marriage and intimacy are meant to go hand in hand
If you don't feel close enough to your partner, make a conscious effort to create more intimacy in your marriage.
Can you relate to any of these statements?
We never go on dates. We never go out anymore. We never have fun anymore. My husband never takes me out. I find her so boring. My marriage is in trouble.
You may want to initiate cozy breakfasts in bed, or moonlight cuppa's together, or even a weekend without the children every few months.
It usually doesn't take a lot of preparation to create magic moments. These moments, one by one, day by day, week by week, year by year, strengthen the intricate fibers of your marriage, ensuring you don't join the unhappy marriage club.
Investing time solves a lot of marriage problems. For example. Investing time will help stop arguments, may turn around a wifes low sex drive around, and should help you to remain 'as honeymooners', by keeping you both connected and intimate.
Married couples wanting help or advice on relationship problems need to look at where they are spending there time. To keep a marriage strong, you need regular activities...daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
Step 4.
Invest time and money in your relationship weekly
A marriage is just like a garden; neglect it, and it will die or become full of weeds. Both partners need to invest time in the marriage, for it to blossom.
- Are you so busy running around, taking the children to sports, watching your favourite T.V. programs, and doing all the housework/work in the garden, that you have left no time left for each other? Learn how to make yourself a priority again.
- Once you analyse your priorities, you will see how to change them.
- Learn how a little money and time can make a huge impact on your marriage, and the relationship with your children.
- This chapter has two case studies about couples whose marriages suffered, unnecessarily, due to too many outside commitments. Learn from what they did, or didn't do.
- Homework: Have a weekly date night. Learn more about the joys of dating your partner, every week, once again.
As with standard affairs, internet affairs usually begin because of emptiness in the heart and/or life of the person, so start dating your spouse this week!
Make your partner a top priority
in your schedule.