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Building a Positive Relationship With Your Spouse - Coggle Diagram
Building a Positive Relationship With Your Spouse
Adjust your expectations
Accept
your spouse
your self
Date each other
Spend time
alone
Dress up and go out to dinner
spend a "quality" evening at home with the phone turned off
Become friends
not enough to love your spouse
making home improvements
take up a new hobby together
Create rituals
goodbye kiss before work
breakfast in bed with the crossword puzzle on weekends
Partnerships take maintenance
Take the pulse of your relationship
physical affection
Relaxing together
Talking over coffee after the kids are in bed?
Make a habit of talking frequently
phone
messages
Mail
Share household chores
Be flexible
your differences are probably part of what attracted you to each other in the first place
Sometimes you just need to agree to disagree
willing to listen to your spouse's point of view
Give each other space
relationship will be stronger and more interesting if you give your spouse time and space without you
interests
friendships
Taking courses
developing new hobbies