Marriage Maintenance

I was driving to the doctor's this morning for my health check report when I heard this marriage tip on the radio. It said to have regular time-outs as a couple, no matter how long you've been married.

The broadcaster raised a very valid point : If we will take time to give our cars a repair or maintenance, even more so will we need some repair work to make our marriage last.

In every marriage there will be its positives and negatives. When couples first get married, it's all rosy and compromising. After a few years, a bit of her changes, a bit of him changes and one suddenly finds that both are not on the same wavelength.

Here're some suggestions :
Take time to have regular dates to keep the freshness going. Remember the dates before the wedding day? Remember how much you look forward to meeting him/her again for coffee, movie or dinner?

Sit down and update each other on anything and everything. Your thoughts and feelings about issues that had occurred, both your plans for the future and even present ones. Get your calendars together.

Just like the car that needs to refuel regularly to run, so does the marriage. Encourage your partner, do things for him/her, say a word of thanks in appreciation even if it's for something simple like a home-cooked dinner.