4 real ways to keep romance alive in a long term relationship
Live MintIn the recent Raj Mehta film Jug Jugg Jeeyo, Kukoo and Nainaa end up fighting about the unpaid electricity bill at their fifth-anniversary dinner. “It’s very hard to keep the romance going in the way films or books expect you to,” says Sunanya Mehta, a 37-year-old aspiring UI designer living in Mumbai with her husband. Now, eight years later, these things have just become chores.” While not every day is meant to be a scene out of a Bollywood romance, Shruti Shah, counsellor, psychologist and Founder of The Holistic Mind Therapy, says there are four real way to reconcile the domestic with the romantic in a long-term relationship. Don’t Feel Guilty “When living with in-laws, in a joint family, or with kids, many couples have a tendency, especially the women, to allocate more time to the family at large instead of their partner,” says Shah. "While our movies can be a lot more progressive in depicting romance at home, in real life, this is often a stretch – taking time out to spend with one’s husband isn’t considered sanskari.” The first step to carving out some special time for your relationship is to shed this conditioned guilt.
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