subject: Plan a Weekly In Home Date Night With Your Spouse! [print this page] Plan a Weekly In Home Date Night With Your Spouse!
Families are mor and ore busy these days between work, kid actiities, household work, et. Finding tim together as a faily is hard enugh. Finding time in th wek for a date night i qute rare. But if yu can carve it out somewhere, I guarantee yur mrriage will b bettr fo it.
Just like with th othr family rutines, having a structure in which ou prioritize time togther will ring ou closer. It's something everone can look forwrd to. It's les impotant what you do thn having utually commtted to making time fr eah other.
In our family, thee i no wa w an afford a bay sitter fr three kds n any kind of regular basis. Our solution wa to schedule an "in hoe dat night" evey Saturday.
We feed te kid early, usually leftovers or quick quesadillas, and then send the to thei rooms. The lay ith each other or read, o...I don't really knw or care wat they do, a lng as they'r nt in the kithen. It's lik bartender ight say t closing, "I dn't care where yo go, but yo can't stay here."
We have had this important ritual in plac for yers, o our kids hae grown u ith t. If your kds re oung enough, you might b able to just put tem t bed and then have start your time together. If they're older, it will tae soe training.
If yo're jut starting ut, ou might explain wat you'e doing at a faily meeting. If you think your kids won't give yo te privay t hav dat night, yu could start with a twenty minute glass of wine break. Get tem used to giving ou "om and dad tme."
This i imprtant modeling fo when the're dults -parents so often get caght p in id life that they neglect teir partners. Show them how hapily married couples behave, and that means havng sme id fee time. Offer them an incentive if tey don't interrupt you r have siblng problems whle they're n thir room. Sow the hw much happier ou are as parent hen yu ave time to connect with yur spouse.
Oay! Now that the ids are ot f the way, wht are you going to do? Well, tht's the easy part! W usually just make dnner together and drink wine. We might play gmes o watch a DVD. O talk. Did I mention the wine? If mone permits, yo cold d tke-out ach wee.
Once yar w have an annual "Stat f the Union" discusion were we talk about deep stuff. Usually, though, it' just time to check in wit ech othr.
S now that I'e convinced you that you should d it, and I've givn you ome tips about ho t shuttle te kids off early, yo an decde wat you're going to do. What are yo waiting fr?
