Posts Tagged ‘relationship’

Sharing Quality Time With Your Partner.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

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. (more…)

How the Sometimes-Single you can strengthen your family relationship

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Have you ever observed your single, child-less friends? From a brief glance, you’ll notice they splurge happily on the latest trends; they can often be found working out at the gym or stretching at a weekly Pilates class; and they have time to relax over a glass of Chablis with colleagues. Delve deeper and you’ll find painfully high stilettos, a fabulous little black dress and matching lacy underwear all ready for that just-in-case, last minute night out with the girls. (more…)

Revolutionise Your Relationship

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Springtime is finally here and, like most mums, you’re keen to get your annual spring clean underway. And, like most mums, you’re probably finding this a difficult task when the children are constantly vying for your attention or pulling out all the toys you’ve just put away! Your list of spring-cleaning tasks might look like this:

  • De-clutter the kitchen drawers and cupboards
  • Sort out the toys in the playroom
  • Clear the garden so the children can enjoy the nice weather
  • Put out-grown clothes away or give them to charity

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