{"id":10959,"date":"2017-03-10T06:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyyouhappyfamily.com\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:14:29","slug":"how-to-reconnect-with-your-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyyouhappyfamily.com\/how-to-reconnect-with-your-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Quick + Powerful Ways to Reconnect With Your Spouse Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inside: Find out the powerful but little-known formula that will make your marriage last. Plus, get 20 simple ideas for how to reconnect with your spouse right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the time everyone in my family gets home from work and school and until the kids need to be in bed, we have about two hours to fit all this<\/strong> in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Make dinner<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Help the oldest with her math homework<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Stop the teething toddler from eating crayons, books, or batteries he pulled out of the TV remote<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Eat dinner<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Clean up food the toddler flung all over the high chair, floor, and behind his left ear<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Get kids in the bath<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Try to find clean jammies for all four kids<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Fail and settle for clean-ish<\/em> t-shirts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Start a load of laundry (see: above)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Blow dry any kids’ hair that got washed that night<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Give the insatiable toddler a snack<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Change the toddler’s diaper one last time<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Nag the others to go potty one last time<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Get everybody one last drink of water<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Brush four sets of teeth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Change the toddler’s diaper one last time (again)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Read bedtime stories<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Lights out<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Whew.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So all that typical advice from the experts on how to reconnect with your spouse doesn’t really work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For example, we don’t exactly have extra<\/strong> time in our nightly routine for “hug your spouse for a full two minutes and let yourself melt into his arms” or “stop and give your full attention to your spouse as he talks about his day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Any conversation we do<\/em> have is interrupted an average of 17.3 times, and so by the time all the interruptions are done, we can’t even remember what we were talking about in the first<\/strong> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In this season of parenting life, we’ve made peace with the fact that our prize for getting through each night is being able to collapse onto the couch next to each other with a glass of wine and a new episode of Superstore<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sometimes we don’t even have the energy for that<\/em>, and we climb into bed at 8:30, read for a few minutes, then pass out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Bonus:<\/strong> As a bonus for joining my weekly newsletter, get a free cheat sheet<\/a> of 60 simple ways to reconnect with your spouse right now using the magic 5:1 ratio.<\/p>\n\n\n