6 Ways COVID-19 is Affecting Relationships

6 Ways COVID-19 is Affecting Relationships

If you’re living mostly in isolation with your partner due to Covid-19 at least one of the following is likely to apply to you.

Is Your Relationship Due For A Service?

Is Your Relationship Due For A Service?

Most couples with children are in their relationship for the long haul. And just like anything else you rely on for your happiness and wellbeing, if you want your partnership to go the distance, you need to take time to look at it, look after it, maintain it, protect it - and at times even repair it.

Relationship maintenance is like keeping a car in great working order. There’s no better feeling than having things hum along nicely as you’re holding hands and heading to the horizon together. So, using that analogy, we’ve taken the basic requirements a vehicle needs to stay roadworthy and applied it to a relationship.

Three words you won’t want to hear these holidays if you’re trying to conceive

Three words you won’t want to hear these holidays if you’re trying to conceive

As others talk and reminisce about the year that’s passed and their hopes for the coming twelve months, this can be an incredibly emotional time for you and your partner. Add into the mix that the whole festive period is centred around one of the most religious and well- known pregnancies and birth in the world, you may feel that ache even more intensely particularly if you are asked ‘any news yet?’

Five Relationship Gifts to Give Your Partner This Christmas

Five Relationship Gifts to Give Your Partner This Christmas

Christmas is a time for giving, but no-one ever said it had to cost a fortune! So, this year, why not give your loved ones these five relationship gifts. These gifts don’t break, in fact they can last a lifetime - and your partner will likely love you even more because of them!

Couples at Christmas: Long distance relationships

Couples at Christmas: Long distance relationships

Relationships come in all different shapes and sizes – and sizes, for some couples, includes the travelling distance between them!

Though some couples (even with families) manage to have happy, fulfilling permanent long-distance relationships, on the whole, long distance circumstances when you’re planning a family or have young children are due to commitments one or other of you have elsewhere. This could be due to shift work, work in remote locations, study, deployment, caring for elderly or ill parents or any other of the myriad of factors families live with.

So, how can you make long distance work as a couple and as a family at any time, not just during the holidays?