#Cultivate15 Day 9

Significant Others: When we choose to become romantically involved with someone, we’re opening ourselves to a very deep relationship. How can you nurture a healthy, loving relationship with your partner? If you’re not romantically involved with someone, you may choose to evaluate former relationships to identify ways in which you’d like to nurture future relationships.

My husband and I have survived several difficult situations throughout our relationship. On a few occasions, I doubted we would come out on the other side together, but we have made a point to cultivate our relationship by talking to each other and making time to spend together. Of course, my work schedule makes it fairly difficult to plan regular date nights and activities, and I tend to tire easily as a result of my job description (still at the big box retailer greeted everyone with a warm smile, after all). During 2015, I’d like to work on finding spontaneous activities that don’t necessarily require a lot of energy. I tend to workout better on my own, but perhaps I can convince Mr. Man to take walks with me — cultivating our relationship and our health at the same time. And I definitely miss playing cards together. Maybe we’ll invest in a new deck of cards.