Marriage Communication and the Importance of Spending Time Together

Marriage is the most difficult maze you will ever get lost in. It is the quest that will take all of your years to conquer. Marriage can equal either bliss or chains. It all depends on what you make of it. Marriage depends on many different things to be successful. Trust. Love. Communication. Time. Friendship. Understanding. Honesty. Loyalty. These are just a few on the main things that a marriage needs in order to thrive.

In order for any relationship to work and be fulfilling all aspects, or things, must be balanced. This article specifically pertains to all of the many things both listed and not listed above. When you spend time with the one you love you have a chance to fulfill all of marriages many needs. All of your many needs, and all of your spouses needs too. For families, your children will benefit from the time you spend with your spouse! Let me explain how...

I am going to include children in this article for just a minute because many of the couples out there have a family. Look at it from a child's point of view. When Mommy and Daddy don't talk to each other or do anything together kids notice. When there is a silence, a thick stressful atmosphere, and a "coldness" in the air the children feel it too. Silence is the opposite of communication. When couples don't spend time together there is no chance for communication to occur. A stressful atmosphere is caused by unsaid words, unshared thoughts, angers, regrets, unfulfilled needs, wants, and desires...etc. Children feel but don't understand. The see but don't grasp. The whole family suffers when there is a stressful, silent, cold atmosphere in the home.

When husbands and wives spend time together they have a chance to talk. When they talk they are communicating. When they communicate they use their listening and understanding skills. Why? For the sake of love. When husbands and wives spend time doing things together like cleaning, cooking, parenting, or even lawn work they are still communicating. Communication is more important in a relationship that love. You can love someone with all of your heart but if you do not spend that time together with them communicating the relationship will eventually deteriorate and rot to nothing. When husbands and wives do this they are happy. They talk and laugh together. They take turns sharing thoughts and feelings about everything and anything so openly and freely. That freeness is a direct result of spend time together often.

That freeness equals a feeling of the deepest trust and understanding. A love so pure and strong and whole. Just spending time together can assure that freeness and those feeling remain. That's what marriage is made of. Those feelings. Those things you just can't describe. The secure-ness in knowing your spouse is your spouse. None of this can be if couples don't spend time together. When there is too much time gone by not spent together the silence creeps in and the joy fades. The stress returns and the communication is lost. Fighting prevails and there are tears to replace smiles. Spend time with the one you love. Laugh, do, talk, and listen. Understand, love, cherish, and never take for granted those precious times you spend with the one you wish to spend your life with...