Taking care of your relationship is above all taking care of each other on a daily basis.
Between routine, conflicts or fatigue, the couple relationship can suffer and cause frustration. Taking care of your relationship in a healthy way, without sacrifice or manipulation, is to accept to be benevolent for each other.
Spend time together
Taking care of your relationship requires dedicating time on a daily basis, whether it is during meals, housework, or through activities and outings together.
Knowing from time to time to put aside everyday worries, children, work or other solicitations such as television or the smartphone allows to devote oneself only to the relationship of couple and thus reinforces the bond.
Communicate
By dint of being preoccupied with your own routine or personal and professional problems, you can quickly forget to take a few minutes to chat with your partner.
However, communication remains the glue of the couple when it helps channel accumulated anger or resentment. With diplomacy and pedagogy, it is possible to express your needs, opinions or vision of things to resolve a situation or move in the same direction.
Take time each for themselves
While it is important to spend time together, being on your own alone or with your friends and your own activities gives everyone a free space.
By avoiding overloading your partner in this way, you keep a healthy distance which makes it possible to fight against possessiveness or selfishness. Taking care of your relationship is already feeling good about yourself and fulfilled enough to take care of yourself.
Project together
Looking in the same direction and deciding on joint couple projects helps strengthen your joint life project. While everyone can have their own plans, discussing what you want for your relationship together keeps a kind of compass that you move towards hand in hand.
Find out more: “I take care of my couple” by Fabienne Kraemer, Presses Universitaires de France editions.
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