Are you playing with your partner?
Often our experience of the mundane aspects of life gets in the way of being able to have fun or enjoy something creative and novel. The ironic thing about play is that it is an executive function in our brain that creates social bonding, opens creative opportunities, and produces natural healing properties in the body.*
Why you don’t want a conflict free marriage…
The Gottman Institute, out of Seattle, has done a lot of research on this and shown that compatability or having “sameness” doesn’t actually create connection. It is actually the ability to meet your spouse in their difference with understanding and acceptance that creates connection.
