7 New Year Resolutions for your Marriage

However good your marriage is, there’s always room for a little improvement.

Resolve to make 2006 a spectacular year for your marriage!

1. Express love daily

• Choose to love without conditions daily.
• Say “I love you” and mean it.
• Show love through your words and actions.

2. Apologise more readily

• Say “Sorry” and mean it.
• Admit your mistakes before you’re caught out.
• Don’t attempt to make yourself look better by trivialising or retaliating when it’s you that’s in the wrong.

3. Forgive more graciously

• Don’t hold a grudge or try to make them feel worse.
• Never gloat.
• Remember, next time it will probably be you that messes up.

4. Speak well of each other

• Never badmouth your partner to anyone else in public. Be respectful at all times.
• Sort out your problems, issues, and ‘dirty laundry’ in private first.
• Don’t confide in other people without your partner knowing and agreeing.

5. Make time for each other

• Maintain and develop shared interests and spend quality time together.
• Do what you can to have regular exclusive/special times that nothing else interferes with (a ‘date night’).
• Examine your schedule and don’t let yourself get so busy that you never see your partner.

6. Allow space for each other

• Don’t spend 24 hours of every day with each other
• Allow each other to develop hobbies and interests
• Though you’re a partnership, remember you are also still two individuals. Don’t live independently but don’t cramp each other’s style either.

7. Keep romance alive

• Guard against your relationship becoming stale or mundane
• Be spontaneous!
• Romantic surprises are fun!