Prioritizing quality time in a relationship means setting aside dedicated moments to connect with your partner on a deeper level. In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to get caught up in work, household responsibilities, and other commitments, leaving little time for meaningful interactions. By intentionally carving out quality time, you demonstrate to your partner that they are a priority in your life and that you value the relationship Here are a few key aspects to consider when prioritizing quality time: 1. Schedule Regular Date Nights: Set a specific day or evening each week or month for a date night. It can be as simple as going out for dinner, watching a movie together, or engaging in an activity you both enjoy. This dedicated time allows you to focus solely on each other and strengthens your emotional bond. 2. Minimize Distractions: During your quality time together, make a conscious effort to minimize distractions. Put away electronic devices, turn off the TV, and c...
It is always a good thing to stay together with your spouse. Distance in a couple is a very stressful challenge. To maintain long distance marriage is really hard but it is possible. Even one day is enough to miss your beloved husband/wife or him/her to miss you too. With having in mind that we have to cope with it, I started reading, finding the way of coping with this and I found the following things. I am already started to apply them and I hope if you are in the same situation as me, you are going to find your way of handling this.
1. You need to spend more time together
Yes, you heard me very well. For your relationship as a married couple, you need to spend more time together for you to be able to cope with distance challenge. Saying that you need to spend more time together, I don't mean that you have to meet physically, no. I am saying being together virtually. And by having those application like WhatsApp, Skype, Google meet; it is very possible to meet on agreed time. Schedule your chats accordingly. Make sure that you updates each other daily. Know how she/he spent the day, what challenged him/he, how is he/she feeling? Getting to know those kind of things on daily basis, it will help you both to feel connected because you will be sharing your emotions, encouragement and all the worries. Make this a priority. In addition to having a scheduled charts, you can plan to do the same activities at the same time. You might plan to have dinner at the same time or reading the book or watching the same movie at the same time. For this to happen you need to commit for it both of you. Without your commitment this can not be possible.
2. Keep the picture of both of you near of you
This is the best idea, though you may think that it is a childish idea. Keeping your picture where you can regularly see it helps your mind and heart to stay connected with your spouse. Keeping a photo of you and your loved one where you look at it more often will tell your mind to keep them on top of everything.
3. Set clear expectations for your long distance marriage.
Being on the same page about how often you will talk, what your shared goals are, how often you will visit each other and other relationship logistics is very important when you are in a long distance marriage. Make sure that you are both on the same page. Have time to talk about these things, they might be very simple and easy to neglect but they are very dangerous to the marriage when they are neglected.
4. Be sure that your decision to live apart isn't masking deeper issues in your marriage.
Before you are agreed for a long distance marriage, you should be very sure that your decision to live apart isn't helping you avoid deeper issues in your marriage. Some red flags that can show you that your decision of living apart maybe that you are avoiding deeper issues in your marriage are:
- Having difficulty trusting your partner: If you have trusting issues, long distance marriage may not be a good idea at that time. You should first sit together and handle that issue. Make sure that you gain back your trust before deciding this long distance marriage.
- You are no longer in love with your spouse: This is the big problem. How can you maintain a long distance marriage with your spouse whom you are no longer in love with? Actually, with this problem your marriage can not work at all. What you should do first, is to reconnect with your spouse, create romantic memories together; and fall in love with him/her again. After that may be you can reconsider your decision of living apart if it is really that necessary.
So, what I was saying is simply to make sure that there is no issue in your marriage that you are covering with your decision of living apart.
5. Do not let other people get into your head
Inevitably, many people around you will have strong opinions that might be positive or negative about your decision of long distance marriage. However, it is important to keep in mind that your relationship is yours. The dynamics of your marriage are between you and your spouse, and it isn't up to others to tell you whether you've made a good decision. So, don't let others 'opinions of your long distance marriage affect how you feel about it, for good or ill. You know the reason why you took that such challenging decision! So stick to that for motivation whenever you feel down.
If your marriage is healthy and supportive and you set the right conditions for it, it is absolutely possible to have a thriving, happy long distance marriage. As with any other relationship, it is important to put in the work that's required to support each other and ensure that you and your spouse are working towards the same goals, supporting each others' dreams and building each other up; all of which is absolutely achievable even if you aren't in the same place all the time.
Those are five tips that can help you to survive long distance marriage, I wish you all the best.
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