What one or two things will I do better than I did in 2103 that will make my marriage stronger and healthier and happier?
Let’s make a list of ideas. I’ll start:
- I will purposely remember falling in love, and nurture those feelings – now!
- I will put his needs equally with my own, and choose actions from that vantage point.
- I will stop assuming my husband isn’t thinking about a topic that’s important to me, even if he doesn’t raise that topic. (I can bring it up. I have been happily surprised to find out just how much thought he had already given.)
- I will share my own fears and uncertainties more. I don’t have to take care of it myself (despite learning that lesson quite well growing up); we can do it together.
- No matter how long and well we know each other, he can not read my mind, and I can not read his. I will ask questions, and state my views.
Since our goal is to be a healthy, happy couple, I will . . .
(Now it’s your turn, reader.)