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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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2 practicesTheme · Shared spiritual life
How long you have · Five minutes
Before hammering out differences, start from common ground: what do we agree on, and what are our shared goals?
Name the agreement and the shared aim first. Building from what you have in common makes the rest easier.
Nurture a sense of we, not I: name what you share, your beliefs, goals, and the life you are building.
Seeing yourselves as a team, with shared values and aims, is a quiet strength in hard times.