ADVICE RATING |
 4.80 (Highly recommend) from 11 votes (45 Visits) |
Hello everyone. My advice is about making time for each other, not as some ones mum or dad, but as partener to our partener before the kids come along. remember it is NOT going to be the kids that are going to hold your hand in old age when you
get lonely after the kids have flown the coop. We can get so caught up playing the role of a parent to one of more, we 'forget' or put the orininal role we had to each other before kids arrival changed the role. Now we seem to put the partner on a back burner for awhile while we throw ourselves into parenting.
There are a lot of things you can do with and for one another even when the kids are in the house and they wont take a lot of money, jus ttime. Like when you all sit around the table at dinner time, you and partener have dessert after the kids have gone to sleep under the stars, set up a little table complete with table cloth, wine if you drink and candles and sit out there in total darkness and chat to one another. Soft music sway to the beat and marvel at a clear sky full of stars. Little or no money involved, juat making time.
Then there is Car picnics on a storm night, have your dessert in the car. Ok it might be sitting in the garage then pull out into the drive and sit there in the dark and snuggle and watch the storm, have a snack..........little or no money involved, just making the time.
How about fish and chips sitting in the car in the middle of winter by the beach.........
Sitting outside on the porch or verandah with candles and no sounds but the crickets in the background.
We must not forget HOW we got to where we are, we started off as two people. AND we will end up as two people, but if we dont place the same importance on our relationship with each other, then we could be setting ourslves up for the possibility of failure later on down the track. All the things that attracted you to one another in the beginning, should be practiced on all the way through the Adventure of raising little 'Mini mees"
(April 2008) (
