With all the demands placed on married couples during Covid-19, especially those parenting school-aged children, it’s no wonder that all forms of intimacy in marriage - physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual, are suffering and in need of help. Even couples in the healthiest marriages are reporting an increase in irritability, isolation, sadness and despair.
So what can couples do to rebuild communication and enhance intimacy? In a blog post entitled “How to Reconnect with Your Spouse and Reignite Your Love,” Catholic author Jeff Cortez offers these words: “When stress enters our lives we have two ways we can respond to the stimulus, we can either allow our minds to accelerate the problem and dwell on the worst case scenario or we can choose to shift our mindset and focus on what is good, positive, and praiseworthy.”...
Additional Resources for Reconnecting with Your Spouse
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