Between work, children, parenting and everyday life’s demands, finding the time to be with your other half some how seems to slip by the way side. So often I hear couples, especially new parents, discuss the frustration of not having enough time to be with their partner and spend that quality time they both crave.
Tired. Drained. Late night shifts. And everyone needing a little more sleep. An early night is much more enticing!
If only there were another couple of hours in the day that were there to be devoted to your couple relationship.
Only the other day hubby and I were having our “wind down debrief” while I am cooking and preparing dinner while the Little man is in his bouncer bouncing away. Ok… maybe not the couple time we used to have… but these days it is taking what we can get.
Those Saturday nights out are more of an oblivious moment in the past then what reality now brings us. But who says we have to go out to have some fun and “couple time”?
How about the wii… I have kicked his butt a few good times in tennis. Even when he claims to be the better tennis player.
Scrabble.
Reading together on the couch.
A movie… one that generally requires me to curl up into his shoulders with love and not fear!
Scrabble.
He has even attempted to cook with me too… cutting the vegetables together. You never know what you might find romance in?
And here are a few of my other creative ideas:
1. Play twister together
2. Play Monopoly together
3. Read your favourite book together on the couch or in bed
4. Make pizza
5. Tell each other what you want to achieve this year
6. Plan your next holiday
7. Give each other a massage
8. Listen to music
It does not have to be much. You don’t have to splurge big. Just a little something different every once in awhile.
How do you spend couple time when there is no couple time?
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