From the article: Get Your Marriage Out of a Rut
If you view your marriage as being on a one-way track to nowhere or feel stifled, your marriage is in a rut. What do you do to get your marriage out of a rut? Share your get out of a rut ideas.
Share Your Ideas
Won't Work
- My husband will tag along ... will never make an effort to do any of these. We'll probably do it one day and then he'll laugh or get bugged. He doesn't think there needs to be excitement in a marriage. I am bored to death. Want out really bad but have two little kids.
- —Guestnotsolucky
What a Challenge
- My husband hardly listens to me, he says his time is only limited to his work and his farming duties. So it's really hard to convince him to practice those quality time idea and he is also very stingy with money. If it comes to a weekend out he will tell you something better that you have to do with that money rather than spending it on a weekend out.
- —Guestvenee
It Appears I'm Too Late
- Thank you for the ideas. I need to get creative about finding alone time with my wife. The past ten years of our twenty year relationship we've been distant. All my efforts to make my wife happy included doing things for her rather than trying new things with her. After ten years of neglecting myself and our relationship by guarding the strapped budget of a single-income family was a poor excuse to become uninteresting. We're still best friends but at this point she's fallen out of love with me. With much effort and prayer I long to win back the love of my life. Thanks again for the pointers, please lend me some prayers too.
- —GuestMark
Long After the Thrill is Gone
- After ten years we just don't have anything in common. I come home from work and immediately go upstairs to my room to play guitar. She watches shows that I would rather be forced to drink acid. There are no common hobbies or interests. One night a week with the kids to a dinner doesn't count. I have gotten to the point where I think John Cougar was right ... Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. I don't know what to do. I want out but I have two young kids.
- —GuestBoredtodeath
Sounds Good But ...
- How do I get my spouse to participate in these ideas? He blames me for everything and never sees his own faults. And he'd rather call me names and spend a weekend ignoring me than to repair our two year marriage ...
- —notsohappily
Worse Than a Rut
- I like these ideas, but seems like we can't move past the bad days. He has been texting a girl half his age and while he admits he feels old and foolish and nothing came of it, I feel it was because she was not interested in him. My problem, what if she had. My trust is shot.
- —ataloss46
gonna try it...
- its just perfect thing i am looking at currently when things are exactly you have mentioned. i am surely gonna try it and update you in 2 weeks whenther they really worked for me or not..
- —Guestmumbai
couldn't agree more
- These are really useful and guaranteed-to-work advice. Doing something new with your spouse every day and spending more moments together (and lots of touching and cuddling) will bring the life back to your marriage. It's scientifically proven.
- —GuestOrissa
