I shared in this post that Justin and I have a routine of taking some time at the beginning of every calendar year to set some goals for the new year, reflect on the year prior, and generally discuss if we are heading down a path we want to be heading down.
You can read more about what kinds of topics we cover in this post.
Recently on Instagram Stories (come follow along!), I shared that we set up another “meeting” to prep for the Fall and I received a few questions via Instagram inquiring to know more about that time. I hope this blog post helps you as I shed a little bit more light on how Justin and I prep for serious discussions.
Justin and I have been married for 11 years! Like any long term relationship, we have the normal ups and downs, but I can genuinely say that I feel like we are both strong communicators and that has led to a lot of clarity and alignment for our marriage through the years. Since almost everything we had anticipated for this upcoming Fall seems to be flipped on its head, we knew that we needed to make some decisions about our future, mostly focused around the kids, in August. So we picked a date, put it on the calendar, and had about a week to prepare individually for our chat.
A few topics we covered were school plans (we are doing 3 different things for education for our 3 kids), athletics, childcare, and a few others.
We spent a few hours covering all the topics we knew we had to cover, and ultimately finished the conversation wit...