By Emma Martin
Welcome to another year! As you move into this new year, we hope you had an incredible experience with your friends and family closing out 2024 and have developed some great plans for 2025.
For those of you who are married, we hope that those plans include wellness and love with your significant other. But how do you develop a plan that includes love? Don’t you already love your significant other?
Of course, but that is not exactly what we mean. Sometimes, life’s stress and busyness can create distance between you and your spouse, and it is important to reconnect and revitalize the relationship.
One way you can do this is by rediscovering each other’s love language and making a plan that includes a focused effort throughout the year to engage your spouse in a way that speaks that love language.
For example, if your spouse has a love language of quality time, make sure you plan into your day time to sit and talk with them or plan date nights—with the phones put away.
If your spouse loves words of affirmation, leave notes on the bathroom mirror or in their lunch box. If their love language is acts of service, plan time to draw them a bath or even take on some extra chores to give them a break.
Maybe one with the love language of physical touch would enjoy a massage or even increase the number of hugs they get throughout the day. Little things like this can go a long way toward a healthy marriage and increased wellness.
It’s all about the fact that you thought of your spouse and are making a concerted effort to show them they are loved. A loving relationship with your spouse can increase wellness in all aspects of your life, decrease stress, and generally make life more enjoyable. Put the effort into it because they are worth it, and so are you.
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ABOUT EMMA MARTIN—Leading the way as our VP and Co-founder of the Full Range Foundation and the President of Full Focus Coaching