3 WAYS TO SHOW LOVE TO YOUR SPOUSE
You can express your love to your spouse throughout the day and powerfully affect your marriage. When you show love to your spouse in a meaningful way, your spouse feels loved, cherished, and appreciated. As a result, you strengthen your connection and intimacy.
There are a number of ways you can express love to your spouse. In this blog, we will share 3 practical and powerful ways you can show love to your spouse. Above all, expressing love to your spouse needs to be done intentionally and strategically.
Here are 3 ways to show love to your spouse:
1. Support Your Spouse’s Dreams
Successful couples have shared dreams and goals, but they also have individual dreams, goals, and aspirations. Therefore, when you support your spouse’s dreams you are expressing your deep love for him or her. This can be accomplished in the way you budget your time and finances so that there is room for your spouse’s dreams to take shape and materialize.
Perhaps you may run errands for your spouse or take care of the kids so that your spouse may work on an important task related to his or her dream. You may start a savings account to help your spouse invest in the resources needed to accomplish the dream.
Communicate openly with your spouse about money management to maximize the chances of achieving the dream. Having healthy conversations about money and finances will strengthen your love connection and marriage.
2. Send Encouraging Messages to Your Spouse
Another practical way you can show love is by sending messages to your spouse throughout the day. You can send messages in different ways. Sending a brief and encouraging text, a lovely picture, or making a phone call are ways to deliver a powerful word of encouragement.
For example, we recall times in graduate school when we would leave notes of encouragement to each other either because we had a class presentation, a major paper to write, or sometimes, for no special reason. These encouraging messages reminded us to press on and focus on our dreams and they strengthened our love for each other. Now, we use our phones to send lovely text messages throughout the day.
3. Have Fun with Your Spouse
The simple act of having fun and laughing together as a couple can be a way to express love. It can help protect your minds from stress and practice self-care together. It also communicates that you enjoy life with your spouse. According to the Mayo Clinic, laughter has multiple benefits to couples including providing stress relief, improving your mood and immune system, and it relaxes your body among other benefits. Additionally, we believe that your spouse will enjoy your company even more when you show that you are a fun person to be around.
Watching funny videos, playing board games, laughing about a funny moment in your lives, may help you feel connected. Consequently, it might remind you why you fell in love with each other in the first place.
Take the time this week to show love to your spouse intentionally and strategically. Implement some of these tips and increase your intimacy.
What are other ways you show love to your spouse? Write/share in the comments below.
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Drs. Elias & Denise Moitinho