Have You Ever Taken Time To Just Be A Husband Or A Wife? 15 Minutes Each Day Is Enough

 

The present day realities where both spouses must work to keep the home going creates a lot of demand on couples and their marriages that many hardly have enough time for themselves. 

With work, kids, family, domestic chores, cooking, extracurricular activities, social engagements and so many other activities and tasks competing for attention and time, what time do couples have each day for anything else?

Fortunately, there is a solution. The answer to this is to commit just 1% of the time our available each day to being a couple. And that time is just 15 minutes each day. It is Couple Time Out!

The Couple Time Out is Essential

You need to make some time each day to be a couple instead of parents, employees and whatever other roles you play each day.

Your marriage is more important than your children or your career, so you need to start nourishing it.

Your marriage must come second (just behind your relationship with God if you share that belief), and it cannot be allowed to slide to any less priority in your everyday life.

And 15 Minutes is all it really takes!

Find 15 minutes just to sit without distractions and talk to your spouse about your day, your thoughts, your dreams and whatever else you feel like sharing as long as you are engaged in an intimate conversation.

And please be sure that your conversation doesn’t revolve around things that need to be done around the house, the kids’ school activities or any other “responsible” meeting topics.

This time is for you to talk about your individual thoughts and your desires as a couple, as husband and wife.

Yes, You Can Create the Time

The first step in this fun little adventure in romance is to identify where you’ll find your 15 minutes.

Well, it starts with the right perspective.

What if you found out that you had to spend 15 minutes each day getting a medical treatment that you needed to survive? Won’t you do it?

Less dramatically, what if you could voluntarily give this time to help your spouse achieve a great deal of happiness? Or pump up your own happiness, get rid of stress and feel fulfilled?

You can find the time. After all, we are literally only talking about 1% of your day here!

To help you begin, here are some areas where you might be able to find some time to cut from:

• Watch less television and movies (Let the movie - magic be your spouse)
• Cut out 15 minutes of needless and mindless web surfing (the web never runs away!)
• Check Facebook less often or put whatsapp aside for a while
• Focus at work so you can leave a bit earlier to get home on time
• Only check your email twice per day (this can be a HUGE time saver)
• Cut down on video games
• Exercise at home with your spouse instead of driving to the gym
• Put the kids to bed 15 minutes early
• Wake up 15 minutes early

Your other responsibilities can easily wait for a small 15 minutes. Note that this is your sacred time for each other and the key to staying connected in your marriage. Don’t trade it for the world!

Let your goal be focused on appreciating each other as a couple for at least a short time each week. Spending just 15 minutes being a couple each day will make you feel closer than ever.

Truly, it’s not hard to be Romantic after all!