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 | Valentine's Day "Fun Factor" from PracticeImago.com Celebrate this Valentine's Day by spending a few minutes getting even more connected with each other. Print out our instructions and question list to get started! |
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| The Love List Take an inventory of your strengths to build team spirit in a new marriage. |
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| Splitting Household Chores Use this worksheet to illuminate the household roles you learned as a child. Then, talk about how you'll divvy up the work in your own household. |
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| Whose Space Is It, Anyway? Power struggles aren't just verbal. They can also be turf wars as you and your spouse vie for control of the living space in your house or apartment. |
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| Rebuilding the "We" You can rebuild your unity as a couple by finding daily activities to share. This exercise, which takes about 20 minutes, can help the two of you choose activities and times to be together. |
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| Unpack Old Marital Baggage Old grudges, resentments, unfulfilled dreams, and still-tender hurts often resurface during the Reunion stage. Use this worksheet to help you decide what to keep, what to toss. |
Like a lot of this type of advice it amounts to a couple of obvious things to do, that will probably work if the relationship problems are essentially superficial. In my case -- my wife has total control over the internal space of the house, and would not consider giving up any of it, I am the "bread" winner, and she is mostly stay at home (what she does there is important, and I value it) which means that the discussion of who does the housework is misleading. My wife would never let me cook.