Keep the Romance Alive
I’m sure we received the same counsel you did on your wedding day: “Keep courting your spouse your entire marriage.” True, it is great advice, but the stress and time constraints of residency can easily push aside our commitment to courtship and romance. My wife and I found little ways to show each other our love, appreciation and commitment–love notes left on the kitchen counter; a thoughtful text in the middle of the day; candlelight spaghetti dinner after the kids went to bed. Two specific things she and I did to keep the romance in our marriage were weekly dates and yearly trips. It certainly pinched our budget, but as often as we could we would go on a weekly date – out to dinner or just take a walk in the park. Additionally, each year we used one of my vacation weeks to get away alone together without the kids. We didn’t visit family or friends, instead we spent a week in New York City or rented a cabin in the mountains or took a Caribbean cruise. Our trips gave us something to look forward to and they energized us to push forward another year. It’s hard to imagine how we would have managed otherwise. {Medical Marriage Tip #8}
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