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Daily things that make your relationship better
On the radio this morning the topic was ?Little things you do as a couple that makes your relationship better?something that benefits both of you, not just one of you?. They had listeners calling in (I was one of them) stating things like every morning they make sure to say ?good morning? to one another, they take a few minutes to spoon before getting up for work, or if they get treats at work they always bring one home for the other person. My thing was that Jason and I always pack each other?s lunches. Whoever gets to it first does it and sometimes we even include little notes. That way even though we?re eating apart, we still think about each other during our lunch hour.
So, do you and your husband do any daily routines that you feel make your relationship better?
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermWe used to be really bad about watching tv while eating dinner... Lately we have decided to start turning off the tv and eating dinner at the table. It is actually really nice, we get to have a conversation with no distractions. We both feel a lot closer to each other to have a little down time to talk and relax.
It's not necessarily a daily routine, but I often leave notes for Chris on his computer, or in his wallet...somewhere he will find them later. Any time I slack for a week or two and leave another one, he always makes a comment about how he wondered if I quit writing them forever (translation: he missed them).
We also always say good morning, good night, hug and kiss each other goodbye, say I love you when we're leaving or going to bed, etc.
On Saturday and Sunday mornings, we usually stay in bed for an hour or so after we wake up to snuggle and watch TV.
And we always go out to breakfast at least one morning on the weekend (sometimes both mornings). Gives us a chance to talk and enjoy each other before we get busy with the rest of the day.
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We always get up from the couch/desk/etc. and hug/kiss each other when either of us gets home from work...
When I leave on business trips I'll leave him 3-6 post-it note love notes around the house so he'll find them throughout the time I'm gone.
We almost always spoon before falling asleep. If I'm not correctly oriented DH will sigh an aggrieved sigh, and rotate me onto my side into "correct spooning position." LOL.
We always kiss eachother good bye and also good night and we end every conversation with I love you. I would love to get little notes, that is so cute!! Lance does pack my lunch every once in a while, but usually I try to pack it the night before.
We used to go to breakfast every Sunday morning but now that I work weekends and have to be to work at 7AM we don't go, and I really miss that.
It isn't necessarily treats at work, but I am the queen of bringing treats home. Like stopping to get cupcakes, or make strawberry shortcake...things like that.
He pretends to hate it because he doesn't "need" that stuff, but he always seems to really enjoy it
Megan & Chris
We always say good morning, I love you and kiss each other bye. If DH's is still in bed when I leave, I kiss his forehead and we say I love you.
Afterwork I get home first. I'll either take Oscar for a walk and meet DH at the train stop to walk home together, or I'll run to the door and give him a kiss when he walks in.
We eat in the kitchen, but usually have the tv on. Recently we've been turning the tv off and DH will put on classical music (we both love) or something chill. We talk about how our days went.
We always say love you when we end conversations.
Whoever it up first one weekends makes coffee for us.
After we turn off the light at night we always chit-chat a little, which I've come to really love.
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Dinnertime is a biggie for us. We usually sit at the kitchen table and eat together without any TV/phone/computer distractions.
C also walks me out and gives me a hug & kiss every morning on my way to work.
But, I think my favorite part is that we always make sure to pray together at night before we go to sleep. It's such a major part of our routine now that it's hard to believe we didn't used to.
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Mike's up an hour before me so I'm still sleeping sound when he leaves. He makes my lunch for and always gives me some awesome snack that I get so excited about at work! When he's ready to leave, he comes in and kisses me and we said our goodbyes and love yous and always tell each other to have a good day.
During the day we bbm each other random things, especially if I know he's stressed of if he knows I am - we try to ease the stress before we get home.
I get home first so I make sure dinner is ready for us when he walks in (I also straighten up) so we have the most time at night to spend together.
Bed time, we always end up playing around and laughing and then right before we actually go to sleep we say our goodnight love yous and sleepy goods.
Lol, ditto here. I have been known to do this with cupcakes (there are too many good bakeries by work).
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We give each other back rubs almost every night (though I receive more than him, hehe).
Kiss each other hello and good bye, greeting each other when the other gets home.
We take turns bringing each other breakfast in the morning.
We have a date night every week. It's a day that is written on both of our calendars The day of the week changes because of his work schedule, but he writes his schedule a month at a time, and when he puts out his schedule we pen in our date nights. We take turns planning it, but the two rules are that it is just for us (no double dates on this night), and we cannot talk about work or anything stressful. I love that when our schedules are packed, and I'm having a rough week, I can look ahead to our date night and know that it is a time where we can just be together. Often we "dream" on our date nights...what we can our dream home to look like...what kind of a restaurant we would open up together...what we want to name our kids. It's the most important nights of our week.
ETA: I realize that the title of this thread was "daily" things, and this was weekly, but it is one of the biggest things we do. The daily things we do have already been said: bring each other breakfast in bed, say I love you at the end of every conversation and throughout the day via BBM, give each other back rubs. Ooohh! I just thought of a few others: I bring him a Coke, he brings me wine. And we wait to watch "our" shows until the other is around.
Thanks to our not-so-new-anymore pooch, we've started eating any at-home meals at the dining room table, and it's become one of my favorite parts of the day. We used to sit in the living room and watch tv while we ate. But now, we actually have a conversation, though admittedly the tv is still on.
We always email each other throughout the day,which goes back to our first days of dating, since we met online. Sometimes it's venting about work, sometimes it's a conversation, and sometimes it's just me saying "I want to gooooooooooo" over and over again. But it helps us feel connected throughout the day. It helps that we both have office jobs, and are attached at the computer all day long.
Also, we say I love you a lot - always before bed and before one of us leaves for work/whatever, and just randomly throughout the day.
And not daily, but we've started meeting for lunch once every week or so. We work about 20 minutes apart (provided the subway behaves), but on slow days at the office, we're able to extend our lunch a little. It's really nice to have that extra time together during the week.
Timmy makes coffee every morning.
His reward is my being less cranky :-P Man I miss it on the days he sleeps in (pretty rare, luckily!)