{"id":8646,"date":"2017-05-25T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=8646"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:34:40","slug":"honeymoon-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/honeymoon-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips for Making the Honeymoon Phase Last a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to keeping the magic alive for a lifetime, here\u2019s what I know now: Forget about premarital counseling or talking exhaustively about how to parent, where to live and how much to save for retirement.<\/p>\n

Turns out that song about how the greatest thing you\u2019ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return was right–sustained romance is a matter of learning a few simple skills.<\/p>\n

But maybe they didn\u2019t offer Relationships 101 at your school, just like they didn\u2019t have it at mine.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t learn Intimacy Skills\u2122 before my wedding, and just a few years later I believed I had married the wrong man. I dragged my husband to counseling but ended up feeling more hopeless than ever when he didn\u2019t want to spend time with me or even make love to me.<\/p>\n

I thought my only options were to spend the rest of my life in a loveless relationship or to divorce. But when happily married women showed me a few of their practices, something magical happened.<\/p>\n

The man who wooed me returned.<\/p>\n

One of the big secrets they taught me was that women are the keepers of the relationship and that we have the power to make it happy and intimate–or stressful and tense. Just as Spider-Man learned, with great power comes great responsibility. I believe we women have a responsibility to learn the skills that contribute to lasting love and to pass them on to each other.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 things I wish every bride knew, but most don\u2019t:<\/p>\n

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