Communication Musts For Couples- Have You Had Your Couch Time Today?

Many couples do not spend quality time together on a daily basis even when they live together. 

They are busy doing their own thing in a part of their homes  or they are on different schedules and do not try to even carve out time to sit down and talk. 

Have you had your couch time today asks the question if you sit down with with mate on a daily basis to give each other even 10 - 20 minutes of quality time talking. 

Many couples do not do this.

Not only should couples carve out 20 minutes a day to do this, they should do this even if they have small children. 

It shows the children that you being a couple is a priority in the home. Parents should tell their children that they are having their 'couch time'. Now if the children need to be watched every second, watch them. You can still explain to a child at an early age that you are going to talk to your mate while you still watch your child play in front of you. 

It teaches your children to respect you as a couple. Too many children grow up thinking that they are everything and that what they demand they get. It also shows your mate that you are committed to them and in growing and strengthening your relationship. 

You need to be sitting down and giving each other 100% of your attention and time DAILY. Doing something together like cleaning the kitchen does not count!

I went to parenting classes that taught me this concept. I am a single parent and I took the classes with several loving, Christian couples. There was a 'modified class book' for me being single. But each week, the couples were asked to carve out their couch time and each week --the couples did not do it at all. 

It was shocking how many couples live too busy of lives that they did not even sit down to talk to each other daily! 

Do not be too busy to sit and talk to your mate!

Have you had YOUR couch time today?

                     By Diane Gammon MS

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