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Stuck in a rut? Use these 25 tips to spice up your marriage.

Marriage will face ups and downs. However, in time of struggle, you do not have to hit rock bottom. One of my favorite exercises for couple is to take 3 of the activities from the list below and practice them for a week.

This list can be life changing for your marriage. You can watch your relationship stuck at an average point or you can take the initiative and revive your marriage today.

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Will you fix your marriage by just doing this list? Yes and no. Yes, if you are intentional and are willing to look at the individual in the mirror. Yes, if you are willing to be patient with your spouse and work on this list regardless if your spouse does not respond on the first day or the first week.  Yes, if you are checking your heart while you are doing this list. No.  If you take this list and apply as a check off list with no intention and no passion. No, if you are just doing the activities, but your attitude is your spouse should change his or her behaviors first. Marriage is active. Just doing the list is not enough.

Here are the 25 tips that are guaranteed to spice your marriage. Be intentional. Be active.

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1.              Have  weekly dates

2.              Sit facing your partner when you are talking

3.              Kiss each other when you leave and when you return

                home

4.              Pray with each other

5.              Discuss your personal goals with your partner

6.              Have sex regularly and often

7.              Give each other a full body massage

8.             Call or text each other throughout the day

9.            Share your struggles

10.         Have dinner together

11.         Spend  15 minutes talking to each other

12.         Have a weekend getaway once a year

13.         Set yearly couple goals and create a plan to make them

             happen

14.         Do the week challenge of no negative talk

15.         Apologize when you are wrong

16.         Have couple meetings

17.         Choose another couple to be your accountability partner

18.         Attend a marriage workshop once a year

19.         Say I love you daily

20.         Give your partner praise in private and in public

21.         Read your Bible together

22.         Give each other gifts

23.         Go on an adventure together

24.         Have a no TV week

25.         Have a good memory lanes time

If you are reading this last paragraph, I assume you have read the list. I know some of the tips are so simple both of us would say this is common sense. And you are right. One of my mentors usually says that common sense is so rare these days. For this reason, I am challenging you to go beyond this blog post and practice these tips. Don't just go through the list, experience each activity with thoughts, actions, urges and feelings. Take the first step to spice up your marriage.

Questions: Which one of the tips you will practice today?

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