After having been married for a number of years, the trust and comfort in your connection have been exemplified to the point of knowing each other inside out. As wonderful as your bond has become, it is entirely normal for your relationship to be somewhat lacking in the fun department if you have fallen into a typical routine, or spend more time thinking about the kids than you do yourselves and your relationship. If this sounds like you and your partner, here are four ways to bring excitement back into your marriage.
1. Plan a Home DIY Project Together
There is nothing more satisfying than improving one or more areas of your home yourself, rather than paying hefty fees to contractors, and even if you have never previously embarked upon a sizeable DIY project, this would be a fabulous bonding activity.
DIY will bring you and your partner back together again, improve your organisational skills as a team, and inject some pride back into your home for both of you.
If DIY is not your thing, you could instead choose to transform the garden together ready for spring, or else upcycle an old furniture set.
2. Spend Time with Your Individual Friends
If you have ever dated someone, or even been married to someone, who works in the same office as you, you will already be overly familiar with the problems created in spending every waking moment together.
This inordinate amount of time spent in each other’s pockets is in no way conducive to a healthy relationship, and instead, whether or not you currently share the same workplace, it is time to form new friendships aside from work.
Having nights where you stay over at a friend’s or spend the weekend on a boys’ or girls’ trip, will mean you will both have much more to say to each other and new experiences to share when you come back together at the end of the weekend.
3. Make New Memories Together
It is not just birthdays and Christmas when a well-thought-out present can do wonders for making your partner happy and what better way to simultaneously show them how much you love them and bring excitement back then to make new memories together.
Experience gifts for her are an exciting and adventurous alternative to the standard box of chocolates or bouquet of flowers. There is such a wide plethora of options to choose from, so you can tailor-make the experience to suit you as a couple.
4. Write Down How You Feel in a Letter
Finally, perhaps rather a vintage way of expressing your feelings and emotions to your partner, and certainly one that is steeped in romance and intimacy, is to write down how you feel about each other in a letter.
This certainly does not have to be a gushing love letter, and moreover, tactfully created in the right way, you could both pledge to be honest in your letters and suggest ways in which you can both strive to improve certain areas of your marriage.
