Walking Together

If you want to change your relationship with your partner, in a positive way, start walking together daily. Have a regular appointment and a regular route, so you both know what's expected and you're both accountable for doing it.

Since his surgery, Brad's been a little slower than usual, but now we are back walking the whole two miles almost every day. But it's not just the physical, health-related, reason that makes it important to us. It's the time to connect. Sometimes we talk about little things on our minds, sometimes I tell him stories from books I read, sometimes he vents about work, sometimes we dream big about our future plans. Sometimes we don't talk at all, just looking around and striding side-by-side in harmony.

A chance to have 40 minutes every day, devoted to nothing but us, is a blessing.