6 Ideas For Healthy Goals To Strengthen Your Marriage In 2021

Straightforward ways to invite more joy into your relationship

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This article is about two of my favorite things: setting and accomplishing goals and building healthy relationships. I spend a lot of time thinking about both topics and looking for unique and helpful ways that they might overlap and be useful for you and your significant others.

I want to break down the title of this article before jumping into the practicalities because there are a few things to point out. First, these are ideas, not laws. As such, I hope you use these ideas as reference points and not as an instruction manual for success. This leads to point two. These ideas are about healthy goals, not productive ones. If you wanted to read about how to “succeed in all areas of your marriage,” I’m sorry to say that this isn’t that article.

This is much more focused on small, hopefully, non-taxing and stress-free ways that can boost your overall health (mental, physical, emotional, spiritual) while adding positive value to your relationship. Which is the last point of clarity. I used the word “marriage” in the title because that's the stage of life I am in and that’s how I am practically seeing these ideas play out in my life. My wife and I, having been married for 5 years, are…