March Couples Tip ~ 6 Hours a Week to a Stronger Relationship
Thirty-two minutes a day + 2 hours for date +1 hour for a State of the Union meeting =6 hours a week.
Here is a graphic that you can start utilizing right away:
30-second hug releases bonding hormones; a hello smile and goodbye kiss help your partner feel important. Remember, dates do not have to be expensive. You can sit on your porch with a coffee or tea, give each other your curiosity attention, and ask open-ended questions.
- How would you like your life to be different Three years from now?
- Do you see your work changing in the future? How?
- What is your opinion of your physical home? Would you make changes if you could?
- How do you think your life would be different if you lived 100 years ago?
- How would you compare yourself as a mother (father) to your own mother (father)?
- What kind of person do you think our child(ren) will become? Any fears? Hopes?
- How are you feeling about your jobs these days?
- If you could redo a five-year period of your life, which would you choose?
- How are you feeling right now about being a parent?
- If you could change one thing in your past, what would it be?
- What is the most exciting thing happening in your life right now?
- If you could instantly possess three skills, what would they be?
- When it comes to the future, what do you worry about the most?
- Who do you consider your best friends or allies? Has that list changed recently?
- What qualities do you value most highly in friends right now?
- What were the best and worst things that happened to you when you were a teen?
- If you could live in another time in history, when would you choose and why?
- If you could choose a different career or vocation, what would it be, and why?
- What is the one thing you would most like to change about your personality? Why?
- Do you feel like certain things are missing from your life? What are they?
- Do you think you’ve changed in the last year? How so?
- If you could design the perfect home for us, what would it be like?
- If you could live another person’s life, whose would you choose?
- Have any of your life goals recently changed?
- What are some of your life dreams now?
- What are your goals for us as a family?
- What goals do you have just for yourself right now?
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
- What have been the highlights and low points of the last year for you?
- What adventures would you like to have in your life right now?
Copyright© 2016 by John M. Gottman, Ph.D., and Julie Gottman, Ph.D. Distributed under license by The Gottman Institute
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