Married life: How alone time can benefit your relationship 36 Articles

by Mariya G

A marriage is a collaborative partnership. For this joint venture to work both partners have to bring something to the table. Each spouse has to be a complete individual, with a personality, opinions, interests, desires, a...read more

by Allison Whitehead

Oh boy, is that true. But you don't have to take that to extremes. You can be apart but still in the house together. My partner and I run our own business, so we do spend a lot of time together. We also do agency wor...read more

by Vivian Edwards

Marriage is a group of two people but two separate individuals with dreams and thoughts and personalities. Use your alone time to benefit yourself and that alone benefits your partner and the relationship. Alone time giv...read more

by Amanda Billings

Being apart from my husband for a while always makes me miss him. It gives me the chance to step and back look at 'the big picture' of us, instead of focusing on the everday small things. It also allows me to look at thi...read more

by full circle

Do married people have to be together all the time? My own answer to this would be "NO". I got married because I want a companion for life, but my life needs space once in a while. Two distinct individuals come together by...read more

by Krystle Hernandez

Marriages often require two individuals to live together under the same roof for extended periods of time. Spending so much time together, couples can often feel claustrophobic or even irritated by the smallest behaviors ...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." If you have never been married, you will never truly understand that phrase. I love my husband with all my heart, but the more I am around him without a break, the more I want to chok...read more

by Amber Goff

I don't mind my husband's company in the least bit, but I do firmly believe that taking time out for myself is very beneficial to our marriage. I spend the entire day taking care of my children, cleaning, cooking, and ...read more

by Lindsey Stell

Why is it that no matter how mad at my husband I am, as soon as he walks out the door, I wish he were back home? Absence makes the heart grow fonder. . . it's true! Spending every waking moment with someone will onl...read more

by Gina Gray

Is Silence Golden? Silence is Golden Everyone has heard the old saying Silence is Golden I'm sure. So what relevance does it have regarding relationships? Well the silence I am referring to is that silence that occur...read more

by Bob Schmidt

Not only can alone time benefit your relationship, it may improve it. Marriage is the union of two individuals. Each comes into the bond of marriage unique from each another. Within a healthy marriage that individual ...read more

by Rootswoman

Time alone in a relationship is very important in a relationship because it allows both of us to take time to reflect on everything that is going on in our lives. I have 5 children so taking a trip to Jamaica is out of th...read more

by Lauren Russell

To truly appreciate being with your spouse, you have to remember what life is like without that person. If you are always with your spouse, you will tend to take that time and that relationship for granted. When you spe...read more

by Kim Sharpe

Just because you are married does not mean that you loose your individuality. We all need our alone time and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. My husband has a huge shop where he goes on the weekends sometim...read more

by Susan Nagy

Alone time is great for building a stronger relationship. However, there are two different types of "alone time" to be addressed here, and they are both beneficial to your marriage. The first "alone time" that I will refe...read more

by Leslie Villagomez

Alone time is cherished very much within my household. My husband and I have a 10month old and our days are always filled with chasing him around and feeding him and playing with him. When he goes down for a nap we don't g...read more

by Jordana Hammersly

Ah...wedded bliss!You've tied the knot, the honeymoon was wonderful, and after months of spending every non-working waking moment together, you find yourself ready to pull your hair out. How could this be? You love your ma...read more

by Janea Washington

Alone time in a relationship is not just important its necessary. A wife needs to remember that before her husband became her husband,he was a single man. He had hobbies, friends, and stuff that he liked to do. Now, the sa...read more

by Annetherese McCorkell

I find that I don't want time alone away from my husband, but I have been married only ten months. I do like to have a bubble bath with candles or music on though, but I don't mind if he comes in during that time. ...read more

by Dale Mazurek

How To Make 20 Years Of Marriage In the day of internet at any given time you can find hundreds and hundreds of ads to help your marriage succeed. There are books, tapes, DVDs, counsellors and lessons of every differen...read more