Are you too busy for your own good, like me? For example, are you supposed to be a stay at home mom who ended up working over 8 hours from home yesterday? Or is that just me? Do you not get enough time with your husband? Sorry, I can’t hear your response over your roaring, “DUHHHHHH.”
Here is my foolproof way to feel connected to your spouse. When we are good about this, we feel like a couple. When we neglect this rule, we start to feel like roommates. And that, my friends, is an awful feeling. I know, because we’ve been ignoring the foolproof rule for the past couple of days. And waking up today, feeling like I haven’t seen my handsome husband in a year, is propelling me to instigate the rule into our house once again. The rule, you ask?
TURN OFF ALL SCREENS BY 9:00 PM AND GET YOURSELVES TO BED!
TOGETHER!
Who cares what you do in bed? Just do it together! Talk, read to each other, plan the week, do something else…
Really, try it. Try it for a week. You’ll thank me later.
See our smiles? That’s because we were following the rule.
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I wish we could make that rule work, but Darren works random shifts at work. Last night he didn’t get home until 11 pm, but I wait up so that we could go to bed together
Great rule Rebecca. Sometimes we do this but rarely. It’s nice when we do. I will make sure we do it more often. I love that country song by Josh something that says “Why don’t we just turn that tv off, 315 channels of nothing but bad news on…Why don’t we just dance down the hall baby straight up the stairs…bouncin off the walls floatin on air….!”
Thats cool that both your schedules allow for this. Tyler is home at naptime so we do this during naptime sometimes. Not everyone’s schedules let you do this but it is nice when people can! I like it a lot, even just lying down next to eachother and reading is really nice!
Great rule. Remember someday the kids will be gone and there will be just the two of you rambling around in the house. Make sure you still want to ramble around with him.