Finding time to spend quality time with your partner is an essential part of any relationship. Understanding each other’s needs and sharing time alone together will strengthen your relationship. Empowering Mums offers you some great ways to find time to spend with your partner and offers tips to keep vital lines of communication open.

Make Time For Each Other

Life as a busy or working mum is very hectic. Between general chores, raising the children, running the household, looking after extended family members such as elderly parents and seeing friends, your partner can quite often be overlooked. It is all too common to allow time to slip by without ever addressing each other’s needs.

Finding time to spend alone together can be challenging. A word of advice here is not to class time spent with the children, dining out with friends or spending a day catching up on chores as ‘quality partner time’. Ensure you make time to be alone together.

Spontaneous alone time can be fun but it almost never happens! Instead of relying on the very rare occasion when the house is quiet or the grandparents offer to baby-sit, try to schedule some alone time into your diaries. Sometimes this means organising such an occasion far in advance and this is okay, as long as it is scheduled into your diaries. Whatever you decide to do, make sure it is booked in and ensure you get together on that date.

Quality alone time doesn’t have to be expensive but should allow you to be able to talk through whatever is on both your minds, for example you could take a walk alone together in the countryside or catch up over a bottle of wine in the evening.

Talk and Listen

Now you have scheduled time to spend together, make sure you are considerate to each other’s needs. Taking time to talk in a rational way will help you to support each other through the general challenges of life as busy parents.

Allow him to let off steam. Often we take the lead in sharing our problems but make sure you listen to any challenges he is facing and help him to deal with them. It is also good to discuss what you both want from your relationship at this time so you can both fulfil each other’s needs appropriately.

Arrange A Surprise

It does take a great deal of effort to find alone time with your partner. Don’t allow traditional roles to influence your relationship. Rather than waiting for him to spring a surprise trip away on you, try to schedule some time-out together yourself. Schedules permitting, this makes a great treat for you both.

In general, try to have fun in your relationship and try not to lose your original spark. Here are some top tips to strengthening your partnership and spending essential quality time together:

• Realise your relationship is a major priority in life.
• Diarise alone time: this will ensure you get to spend some time together without worrying about other events getting in the way.
• Keep talking: this will ensure you understand what each other wants and needs from your relationship.

Above all enjoy your relationship and the time you have together!

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