5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Marriage Burnout: 1) Spend quality time (ALONE). One of the benefits of marriage is sharing your life with someone, but that can also be one of the disadvantages. Spouses can sometimes get all caught up in marriage and forget about themselves. Not taking time to love on ourselves, do the things we enjoy and pursue our personal dreams, leaves us with regrets. These regrets are normally taken out on spouse. Spend a day where you are just you, not a spouse or a parent. 2) Practice gratitude. Look for and count the blessings in your life. Healthy family, friends, home and jobs remind us things are never as bad as they could be. 3) Rest. We sometimes take on too much and it can contribute to our feeling the burn out. The sooner we realize we are not supermoms, superdads or super spouses, the better off we will be. We have to let ourselves off the hook. We can’t always do it all. We have to surrender, rest and ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of knowing the deepest truth of who we are. We are not superhuman and shouldn’t ever pretend to be. 4) Discuss your frustrations. While sharing this with our spouse is ideal, being open about our feelings can be discussed with anyone we truly trust. As long as this person will listen, offer support and be completely honest with us. It’s not healthy to hold on to those kinds of emotions and not release them. 5) Pray that spirit away. Negative feelings and energy are absolutely no good for us personally or romantically. Ask God to release any thought or action that negatively impacts your relationship. SOURCE: bit.ly/1eZqY19
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:31:28 +0000
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