7 Tips To Rekindle Your Romance In Your Relationship
Originally published at lmt-lss.com on April 4, 2016.
The passion is still there, it just needs to be unearthed.
Has your relationship started to feel stare and boring? Is it not as exciting as it once was? Help is at hand. No relationship needs to be banal. Bring back the excitement with these tips.
1. Plan dates together.
Go out on a date together, like you used to back in the old days. Dress up, meet at a different place, and act like you hardly know each other for one night. That means no fighting, nagging or criticizing. Plan date nights regularly, to get away from the mundaneness of everyday life.
2. Take off your fighting gloves.
If you know you always end up in a fight while discussing certain topics, stay away from those topics. When you are consciously trying to bring back the spark in your relationship, remind yourself not to fight over the small things. If you find yourself being pulled into a fight, resist the urge.
3. Take off on a trip.
The mundane realities of everyday life may be getting you down. Go off on a trip and have adventures together. Research shows that we tend to be more attracted to people around us during life threatening, or adrenaline-filled moments. Go ahead and exploit that scientific fact to improve your relationship.
4. Flirt like you’ve just met.
Often in long term relationships, we stop flirting with our partner. If you don’t do the things you used to do at the beginning, how do you expect your relationship to stay as it was at the beginning? Bring back the spark with some heavy-duty flirting.
5. Break the touch barrier.
If you don’t cuddle, kiss or touch your partner unless you want physical intimacy, that could be the reason the relationship is going downhill. Hugging kissing, and cuddling is how humans show their affection. Don’t neglect your partner, and show your love by more cuddling.
6. List the things you love about your spouse.
If you both do it, this can be a good bonding exercise. But if you’d rather not do it out loud, simply remind yourself of the things you love about your partner, and what made you fall in love. It will bring back some of the old passion.
7. Talk to each other more.
Where nothing else helps, talking does. Whatever problems your relationship is going through, talking it out helps.
Your relationship might seem nothing like the heart-racing, passionate, exciting thing it once was, but don’t worry. The passion is still there, it just needs to be unearthed. It’s hiding beneath all the clutter of chores, bills, tiffs and responsibilities. All you need to do is clear the clutter away to bring the spark back into your relationship.
