Ideas for spending quality time with spouse

[belinsky.j]

The background to my question is that I recently got married (3 months ago) and I find that during weeknights after we have had dinner and before going to bed, we spend a lot of our time watching Netflix together and while I enjoy that time with him I know that it may be difficult going forward to find shows that we both like and that don’t have unnecessary content that would be detrimental to our faith (violence, sexual content, etc). I just was hoping to find ideas for how we can spend our time together that is not just watching TV. Sure I love to replace watching TV with reading books or other hobbies (I prefer to read most of the time), but we can’t really do that together so I think that’s why TV has been our most common fall back activity. Let me know what you and your spouse enjoy to do together and why Thanks!

 

[dollysro]

Walks together
Cards or board games
Pray
Talk
Take a class
Host others
Volunteer
Midweek evening mass and / or confession
Budget discussions
Plan a trip
Gardening when the weather is good, plan for it when not
The list is endless!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

We actually loved to hang out in the same room both reading our own books or working on our own computers, or sometimes he’d go in the next room and watch TV because I usually didn’t like to watch it, and if we found something interesting or funny we’d share it with each other at an appropriate time. Or I could be working on some hobby thing while hanging out with him in the room; he didn’t need to be knitting or crafting along with me for us to spend time. We had a lot of fun together that way.

What does your husband like to do in the evenings?

Remember also that some people are tired in the evenings after work, and might not have a lot of energy for doing a hobby at that time. I know when I was working a 9 to 5, after dinner I just wanted to relax until bed time and so did my husband. TV or reading books was good for relaxing. For doing hobbies, weekends might be better because you’re not already all tired from a busy day.

 

[Mtatum1958]

Married three months or so. You have so much to learn about each other. Why not take turns asking a question about some aspect of your relationship, future aspirations, beliefs, etc. Take some time to reflect and then share with each other.