Research shows that having children can decrease marital happiness and the quality of a couple’s relationship. According to an eight-year study at the University of Denver and Texas A&M, 90 percent of 218 couples experienced a decrease in marital satisfaction once the first child was born.
Terry Real, a Boston-based marriage and family therapist, and author of The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work, suggests dating your spouse.
Apparently it's good for children to see parents go off for the weekend and leave them at home, orjust go out on a Friday night. It's a tremendous inoculation against marriage failure down the pike to put a little time and energy into marriage all the way through.
That's a great reason to get a babysitter and make a date.
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