Do you remember the slogan the Army had back in the day? “We do more before 6am then most people do all day.”
You probably have said something similar to this pertaining to your busy schedule. In order to stay afloat financially today, many of us endure long days, long hours, with little to no time for “extra”curricular activities.
So with little to no time to even take a lunch break some days, just how can you manage to spend quality time with your spouse?
Very good question.
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5 Tips to Gain Time in Your Day:
- Get up 30 minutes earlier than normal. Use this time to have a cup of coffee (or your favorite morning drink) with your spouse and just talk about everything except bills, work, & children.
- Decide which night every week you will turn off the TV, cellphones, & have a no internet night. This is the night you guys will dedicate to talking and “dating”.
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Spend time together cooking
- Carpool to work together one day out the week. You can have quality time together while driving!
- Shower together…this really should be #1. There is nowhere to run. There are no phones, internet, or any other distractions when you are in the shower. Take a shower together once or twice a week.
These suggestions are just a start. The idea is to get in some QT with your spouse and a little time is better than no time. Until we can figure out how to have 25 hours/8 days a week, we will have to be creative with scheduling quality time with the spouse.
What are some ways you can think of to gain at least 30 minutes to spend with your spouse?
One of the ways that we spend some quality time by just spending some time before we go to bed just to chat about how our day was and what we want to do the next day so if there was anything building up all day long we toss it out before we go to bed. We also enjoy playing Monopoly on the Ipad together not against each other. The two computer AI always gang up so we do too and it is an adventure to take them out! LOL
Love it…my husband & I will play Spades on pogo.com together…we love doing the “simple” things together….
Pamela
More great ideas! I love having breakfast with my husband when we can. Should really make that happen more often. Thanks for the motivation!
Although we don’t wake up early, we do save about 30 minutes before we go to bed to chat and talk about our days, life or whatever is on our minds!
Thats what SDMS is here for..to motivate couples! Thanks!!!
Pamela
I love it…30 minutes in the morning, in the afternoon, or at night…I just love the fact that you guys are getting that quality time in! Thanks for visiting!!
Pamela
Great tips!
Stopping by from the Friday Hops to say hello.
Have a great weekend!
POSH
Thanks for stopping by…follow us for more tips daily!
Pamela
Love all 5 of these. I would add one more – take walks with your spouse! This past week, we’ve gone out walking everyday for about 45 min. This is also good no cell phone/internet time with your spouse!! Looking forward to being blogging buddies!
i’m glad that i found right content what i was looking for. thanks for giving the super workable 5 tips. keep in sharing this type of content.