The Relationship Dream List

By John M. Grohol. Posted on Jan 6th 2013.

Use this popular and surefire technique to grow closer in your relationship in 2013

6) Add and prioritize. Discuss other things you’d like to do together in your lives that may have been excluded from your individual lists. Add these to your new shared list, and prioritize the list.

The Relationship Dream List isn’t meant to be a to-do list. Your shared dreams create an underlying sense of mutual direction in your relationship, while also creating greater meaning and a foundation of turning towards each other. Unwelcome routines and other day-to-day issues may still come into the picture and temporarily push our relationships to the side, however, shared dreams can strengthen the basis and a create a continuous sense of togetherness in our relationships.

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