I think I have to write these dares the day after they are taking place so I can record what happened. The chapter is titled Love Takes Delight. Remember when you first started dating how you couldn't wait for an email, text or call from your spouse. Remember how your heart thudded in your chest, your smile took over your face and you may even have blushed a little when you were talking. That is how delight shows up in the beginning. After a few years, that delight tends to fall by the wayside and life starts happening. You get into schedules, have stress and want to maintain a great life so you nag. Today was about putting all that aside and doing something your spouse wants to do. You are going to start the process of regaining the delight in your spouse by putting their wants first and setting aside something you want. The goal is to purposefully neglect an activity you would normally do to spend quality time wiht your spouse. Just be together.
So I know this sounds dumb but it worked for us. I do the cooking and my DH does the cleaning up. Yesterday he had just arrived home from a three day business trip and wanted to just sit on the couch together after breakfast. So instead of worrying about the dishes going in the dishwasher or the laundry or the workout. We sat on the couch for 45 minutes, sometimes talking, sometimes being still but holding hands, cuddling. It was phenomenal. The dishes got put away, the workout was completed but not until we had taken the time to just "be" together. That is one the of the greatest things about my husband, I can just "be" with him!
Go ahead, take delight in the one you love and you will be blessed!
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