Now that our new year’s resolution are about a month old, let’s turn to our primary relationship. 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.
Since our goal is to be a healthy, happy couple, I will . . .