Relationship Bonding Fun

Looking for relationship bonding fun? Don’t wait until you are the couple who sits at the dinner table and has nothing to talk about. It can be a devastating moment emotionally, when you realize you have supposedly talked about everything in your relationship. You need to constantly be moving forward in a relationship, looking for something new about your spouse, child, or parents every day to bond closer to them.

When you bond closer in your relationships, it helps you through the difficult times. When you are constantly having relationship bonding fun with each other, you do not have to worry about one of you suddenly saying “you’ve changed,” in a negative way. You are excited to grow together and “change” together.

Sometimes we have to go backwards to remind us what to do in the future to keep the love and spark alive in our relationships. You marriage may have started out in the honeymoon stage where everything was perfect and you constantly went out on dates, left little love notes for each other, or showed care more to each other on a daily basis with your words or acts of affection.

Sit down wherever you are now as a couple, and create a vision statement for your marriage. What do you want your relationship to look like 20 or 30 years from now? More than likely both of you in the relationship are both dissatisfied with the status quo or the same things that may happen over and over. You get bored, frustrated, and want your relationship to change for the better. However, you cannot be the same person you were 10 years ago. It is natural that we physically change, which can affect our emotions and actions.

There are some things we can do now, that we did in our past, to create relationship bonding fun. Create a vision in which you love change and embrace it. Create a plan to fall back in love. Rekindle your relationship, by going back in time and doing some of the following bonding activities.

• Go to the place where you first met, and redo your first date. Schedule date nights, at least once per week.
• Visit old friends of your past you have not seen in a while, and go on a double date with them again.
• Go talk to the pastor who married you, or the marriage counselor you met before your wedding. If neither of these apply, it is important to seek outside help from someone wise who can help you get your marriage back on the right track.
• Start with small acts of kindness and respect by calling each other old loving names you used when you first met and show love with small things you did for each other in years past. Leave a little post it note on their steering wheel in the car, to read before going to work in the morning.
• Look up team building games online, and try them. You would be amazed at how much you have to work together in this relationship bonding fun games.
• To help increase physical touch more, go back in time and start holding hands again.
• Renew your vows and commitment to each other, by writing them down on a “Message to the Future” letter to each other.
• Keep a gratitude journal and discuss at least one great thing that happened each day.
• Have a second honeymoon or go on a fun couples’ retreat.
• Be kids again, and go jump in the fall leaves or make a snowman together.
• Have some quiet time together at a local park without cell phones or kids.
• Surprise each other with little gifts, like flowers or something completely unexpected and new.
• Cuddle in the bed longer like you did when you first got married.
• Fill a Wedding Time Capsule with sentimental items of your past, and a bucket list that you as a couple want to accomplish. Then, in 20 to 30 years open the time capsule and see how much closer you have come as you did all this relationship bonding fun.

Assuming you are invested in your relationship enough to make a change, we urge you to go back in time and look at your old mementos and memorabilia to recall great memories, and then come up with ideas of how you can recreate those moments. Your relationship must take priority over everything else in your lives right now.

Looking back can be a great way to have relationship bonding fun. It can also help you remember where you came from and appreciate how far you have come. So, what are some relationship bonding fun activities you can share with others who may read this? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie