How much is playfulness part of your marriage? Marriage can become ho hum unless we invest time and creativity and effort into it. One way of keeping your marriage fresh is maintaining playfulness.
Recently on an interview Andrew Denton did with Alan Alda one of the things Alda he loves about his wife is her playfulness. That showed it the photo he had of her which was a treasured keepsake.
On Saturday Mick and I put up our Christmas decorations, well all except for the tree which hasn’t been bought yet. But when we went to out the lights and he star and bell on the window we realized how dirty they were. No way could the lights go up on that.
So Mick took the Windex and paper towels outside while I kept mine for inside. But as we washed the windows we made a game of it, playing tag with the spray, squirting it at each other. Of course the glass was between us so no-one was getting wet. It was all juts a bit of fun. It passed the time easier and the job still got done.
Then yesterday afternoon we took the dogs for a walk and as well as getting our own exercise. As we came through the bush we saw a large white rabbit. ‘I’m late I’m late for a very important date,’ Mick said quoting the famous white rabbit from Alice’s Adventures in the Lewis Carols’ novels, books we both remembered from childhood.
‘So now I know we live in wonderland,’ I replied.
‘Of course,’ Mick said, because that’s what we often feel about this place where we live.
Playfulness is important in marriage whether it’s in the bedroom or in relating to and raising our children. It’s important in doing chores or whatever else we’re doing in our married life. A little bit of playfulness, even a simple pillow fight or water fight, can make the everyday and mundane fun.
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