Parents, Here Is What Making Time For Your Marriage Actually Means

Christine Organ is a loving wife and mother. She’s also a lawyer-turned-writer who’s written stories, articles and books about parenting and the married life. Her experience as a mother of two and dedicated wife makes it easy for her to translate personal experiences into content and share them with the world.

Recently, Organ took on the challenge of trying to define what making time in a marriage actually means. In her opinion, “Making time for your marriage changes as a marriage evolves. Making time for marriage used to mean weeklong vacations, regular date nights, and Sunday mornings in bed. But as a marriage progresses—and especially after kids enter the picture—’making time’ takes on a whole new meaning. Making time for marriage requires flexibility, patience, and a whole lot of creativity.”

She took the time to point out a more realistic definition of this phrase. Through her examples, couples can get a better feel of what it means to make time with and for your partner. As a result, your marriage will be happier and healthier!

Check out what making time for your marriage truly means, according to this author/wife:

Making time for your marriage means a long hug or a quick butt squeeze in the kitchen.

Making time for your marriage means emailing and texting 50 times a day about things like grocery lists and soccer practice and your mother-in-law’s birthday because it means more time to actually talk when you’re together.

Making time for your marriage means laughing at the first 10 minutes of Saturday Night Live together before one of you falls asleep on the couch.

Making time for your marriage means trying eight times to finish a sentence, interrupted with a “Daddy, guess what?!” each time, and then finally giving up with a sigh and a smile, because whatever you were going to say can wait.

Making time for your marriage means quickies in the bathroom while the kids watch Saturday morning cartoons.

Making time for your marriage means laughing at inside jokes no one else understands even if you drive people crazy in the process.

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Making time for your marriage means a few minutes awake in bed in the early morning pre-dawn hours, limbs twisted and breathing in sync, before a parade of children comes crashing through the door demanding cereal and cartoons and diaper changes.

Making time for your marriage means sending tacky emoji-filled texts, forwarding dirty jokes in the middle of the afternoon because it might make him laugh in the middle of a conference call, and every once in a while sexting a photo of your boobs (via Snapchat, of course, so the kids don’t find it when they grab your phone to play Angry Birds).

Making time for your marriage means a shoulder rub in the two minutes between tucking the kids in at night and a child popping out to tell you that his nose is itchy and he needs another drink of water.

Making time for your marriage means the occasional date night when you vow not to talk about the kids, but you start talking about them before you’ve finished your first drink.

Making time for your marriage means long conversations in the minivan on the drive home from the zoo while the kids sleep in the backseat.

Making time for your marriage means browsing the aisles at Target together on a Friday night because one of you wants to look at patio furniture, the other wants new sunglasses, and you’re out of milk.

Making time for your marriage means forgiveness—lots and lots of forgiveness—because you’re too damn tired to fight about it anymore.

Making time for your marriage means dreaming about a future together and remembering a past together for about three minutes before you are snapped back to reality by a toddler peeing on the kitchen floor.

Christine Organ certainly has quite a few different definitions of what it means to make time for your marriage, but each one is sure to lead to a more practical relationship goal. Making time for your marriage means taking in the small things, and enjoying each and every second with your partner, not setting aside mandatory times dedicated to spending time. Love every second and every moment, and you can get the most out of  your marriage!

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