Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 7

This is the seventh and last post in my Hitched series on premarital tips for married couples who either never learned - or have forgotten how to keep the foundation under their "marriage house" as strong as possible.

7 ) Define Your Personal, Couple and Family Goals: Have you ever discussed your goals with your spouse? Even if you did at one time, have they changed? For long term marriages so much can change within the relationship itself over time and the most successful couples navigate these changes well. Goals are another area to check in on occasionally together.

• Career
• Hobbies, Interests
• Dreams
• Where to Live
• Hopes for children

It can be a fun exercise to take the time to explore these areas with your partner. Perhaps you can make plan a night where you have uninterrupted time to re-assess the above mentioned areas.

Thanks for joining me in this series. Miss the earlier posts? Here they are:

• Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 1
• Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 2
• Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 3
• Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 4
• Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 5
• Want a Lasting Marriage? Get Back to the Basics - part 6

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Lisa Brookes Kift is a Marriage and Family Therapist and author of The Marriage Refresher Course Workbook for Couples, a cost effective, do-it-yourself, therapist-guided alternative to couples counseling.

Other articles and blog posts by Lisa Brookes MFT on Hitched:

• How Marriage Counseling Can Help, Now!
• Communication Challenge: How Well do You and Your Spouse Listen to ...
• Affair Recovery Tip: Allow for Transparency
• Get Onboard with Some of Your Partner's Interests
• Hug Your Partner. Increase Oxytocin. Feel Loved.
• Sustaining Healthy Relationships - 5 Tips
• 10 Qualities of Great Marriages
• 5 Signs You Don't Fight Fair in Your Marriage