Tips To Strengthen Your Relationship During A Vacation
The holiday season is a great time to rest and enjoy with family and friends. However, a vacation is also a good time to strengthen your relationship and friendships. So why are divorces and breakups more common at this time of year?
On vacation, couples spend a lot of time together. This can have a very positive effect if they get along, but an extremely negative effect if the relationship is going through a rough patch.
During the year, everyone is busy with their work, routine and family obligations. This can mask potential problems in the relationship, such as:
- Unsolved problems.
- Lack of communication.
- Disagreement about how to spend free time and plan the vacation.
- Lack of common interests.
- Incompatibility in preferences and passions.
If the couple doesn’t address these concerns before going on vacation, they’re more likely to break up and the relationship won’t last. Vacations don’t work like magic, and they won’t automatically fix problems that have developed over the year.
On other occasions, our expectations have been set too high. When things don’t go the way we would expect, we get frustrated and blame our partner.
How can couples strengthen their relationship while on vacation?
Improve communication
Most of the problems couples face are the result of communication difficulties. It is not only what we say that is important in communication. It is also:
- How we say it.
- Putting ourselves in the shoes of the other.
- How we understand others.
- How we listen.
- The key to positive communication is knowing how to listen.
Create an atmosphere of trust
Without first creating a climate of trust, it is difficult to establish good communication where we feel comfortable sharing our feelings or concerns. It may seem obvious, but there are many couples who need to create this atmosphere of trust.
They need to make time to talk, communicate and be together without distraction and especially without screens. This point is essential to strengthen your relationship and keep it healthy.
be empathetic
Empathy is our ability to put ourselves in other people’s shoes, understand how they feel and understand their motives and opinions. For relationships, this seems obvious, but we often forget it.
Often people use their partner as a “punching bag” to take out their anger, sadness and frustration. It’s about putting yourself in your partner’s shoes, taking into account the circumstances, their feelings, and their emotions.
Learn to speak
When we are in a relationship, we sometimes think that our partner is psychic and will know what we want or like. That is not always the case. In fact, we are all immersed in our own world, our problems and our daily routine.
Occasionally we find that the other person needed us. For this reason, stating your needs is fundamental to strengthening your relationship.
