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Your marriage
What keeps a marriage well is not the big gestures. It is knowing each other, turning towards each other in ordinary moments, staying regulated when it gets hot, and repairing quickly when it goes wrong. Most of the practices here take under five minutes.
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How long you have
Approach · Gottman
When · Any ordinary day
Name one goal you are building toward together, and say it out loud as ours.
The home, the children's upbringing, a habit of worship. Something you are making together.
Agree with your spouse on one value you want your home to stand for, and live it this week.
Generosity, honesty, patience, prayer. Pick one, name it, and let it show in the house.
Tell your children, or each other, one good part of your story of us.
How you met, a hard thing you got through, why you are proud of this we. Say it aloud.