To connect with your partner, don't curl up on the couch — go on a double date
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- Studies suggest that spending time with your partner and another couple is an easy way to improve your relationship.
- Couples tend to enjoy the time they spend together with friends even more than they enjoy spending time alone together.
- That's possibly because you can see those friends admiring your partner the way you once admired them (or still do).
Earlier this month, historian Stephanie Coontz published an op-ed in The New York Times about improving your marriage by acting like a single person.
One sentence jumped out at me: "Aside from having sex, which most of us prefer to do without outsiders around, people enjoy doing activities with their partner and friends together more than with only their spouse."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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