8 Keys to Help Keep Our Kids from Pulling Us Apart {Part 3}

*This is Part 3 of our series on Keys To Keeping Our Kids from Pulling Us Apart. You can read Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE.

5.   Take time away together.

Before we were married a wise couple challenged us, “Make a commitment now to go on a weekly date alone.” Do it for the rest of your life. We took their advice, and it has made a big difference in our marriage, especially when the children began to come along.

It hasn’t always been an evening. Sometimes it’s been breakfast, or when the kids were in school, a luncheon. And we haven’t made it every week. Yes, emergencies come up but throughout our marriage, we’ve made it 60% of the time.

If we hadn’t put it on the calendar every week, it would have been much less.

When our kids were young, we use to trade babysitting with another couple twice a year for a weekend getaway. We kept their kids; then they kept ours. Once we had five kids, it was harder to find anyone who wanted to trade!

But I learned the value of a few nights away alone to nurture our marriage.

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