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“Attend to business another day, nurture your love life.”

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I love it when I get a fortune like this one!  (Further proof that the small things in life can make you happy!)
Let’s face it, there’s a never ending list of tasks that qualify as the “business of running our lives” – laundry, mowing the lawn, filling out health insurance forms, writing a business report, paying bills, repairing your house or watch or blouse or…

While these things aren’t unimportant (the bills do need to be paid eventually) when it comes to marriage, NOTHING is as important as nurturing your love life.  The mistake that’s too easy to make is to pay attention to the “business” because it is so tangible, while letting the nurturing go when we run out of time because it has no deadline.

I encourage couples to think of nurturing as a critical activity – and if they need to schedule it and create deadlines for it to make the nurturing happen, why not do so?  Put it at the top of your “to do” list for just one month so that you have some happy nurturing time together each day and see what great things happen to your love.

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