Spring cleaning isn't just for your house. Try spring-cleaning your marriage:
- Clear the air. Are there any conversations you have been avoiding, or arguments that have come up a few times? Schedule a time to talk.
- Make room for new experiences. Look at your calendar of commitments. Do you need to free up one night a week as a couple or as a family?
- If you've been building up resentment, it's time to dust it off and unload past hurts. Then move on.
- Are there proverbial cobwebs around the marital bed? Take the necessary steps to reconnect and clear them out.
- Give thought to spiffing up your appearance. Has it been a while since you cleaned out the closet and cleared out ill-fitting clothes and old sweat pants?
- Clean and organize areas where you spend the most time. Keep your bedroom clutter to a minimum -- and leave the TV in another room.
- Check tarnished relationships. If negative friendships or family stresses are contributing to marital disharmony, give them a good scrubbing. Be united as a couple, and set boundaries where needed.
- Keep it maintained. Just like we can't clean our houses once in the spring then forget about it, we have to work on keeping our marriages renewed and fresh.
