Sometimes with all the rush of our busy everyday lives, we forget to stop and really take time for what’s important. I’m thinking about this because of a comment my husband made this evening. He asked if I still loved him today as much as I did yesterday, because I’m not acting as loving now as I was then. I answered that the reason for that is because yesterday I was in a relaxed mood without any work or stress on my mind. When I have fewer worries or distractions hanging over my head I naturally tend to be in a more attentive mood toward my loved ones. Should it be this way? I don’t know, but it is.

I doubt I’m unique in this aspect. How many of us really take time to, as the saying goes, stop and smell the roses? I have this theory that if each of us took just fifteen minutes a day out of our busy schedules to concentrate our full attention on a loved one, our lives would be much fuller. Fuller in a good sense, I mean. It’s the little things that count; anyone will tell you that. A short snuggle, a massage… Sometimes just lying awake at night and talking with your spouse about your thoughts and catching up on what’s going on in each other’s lives can be a great thing. We get so busy that I think often modern couples forget the most basic thing in a relationship is just being together.

So how can we fix this? How can we cram an extra fifteen minutes into our already jam-packed day? The truth is we can’t. No matter how hard we try, it’s impossible to make a twenty-four hour day last even one minute longer. That’s why we have to carve that special time out of some other time slot. We have to find out what it is that we do every day that can be done without—or that we can at least spend less time on. Maybe it’s watching TV, reading, or some other unnecessary leisure activity. I’m not saying we should cut anything important. Most of us actually have plenty of time on our hands on the average day, we just don’t realize it. I think we would be surprised how much time we could come up with just by cutting out unnecessary activities to spend more time on what really matters—improving the quality of our relationships.

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