Giving your partner your full attention and staying present with them whenever they try to connect, whether by answering a question about your day, or agreeing to
do a household chore together, are ways to intentionally connect.
Not exact matches
If you're
doing a
household chore, on vacation
together, or worse — being intimate — will your spouse ever slip and say, «Well, my first spouse
did things this way...» If that happens, how will you feel?
Verily contributor and certified Gottman therapist Zach Brittle wrote about the importance of working out your needs as a couple and agreeing
together exactly which
household chores need to be
done regularly, as well as who will generally
do them.
Often this is while
doing everyday things like
household chores or while playing games
together.
So we made a deal: I'd sign if he signed an agreement as well — to
do weekly specific
household chores I'd had to force him to
do during the months we'd been living
together.