If you don’t want to break up your family, control stress
Stress can be the cause of your family breaking up … completely. You have the solution so that it does not happen!
Being parents and having a family is full of challenges … And this is known by anyone who has children and who also has a partner. Finding the time and strength to handle it all can be difficult, but it is not impossible. If stress is controlled, then it will be easier to deal with the most complicated day-to-day situations.
If you are feeling stressed or if there is any tension in your relationship from many parenting obligations, you are not necessarily doing something wrong. That said, there are many things you can and should do to safeguard your own happiness and your connection with your partner in your relationship, and thus, be able to safeguard the family nucleus.
Control the stress you face, in this way you will take better care of your partner, yourself, your children and the entire family. You will learn to build more positive feelings and experiences from now on. You don’t need to wait until your children leave home to elevate your feelings of marital happiness; The following suggestions can help you significantly.
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FIND SOCIAL SUPPORT
Your partner is not the only one who can help you increase the joy of your relationship. Family, friends, and even people with less emotional contact can help you stress less and enjoy your time together more. Here are some ideas to keep things happier:
-Cultivate your relationship
-Create a circle of support with people who can help you when you need it
-Have an emotional support system
-Find ways to minimize social stress (toxic people, unsolicited advice, comparing yourself to others …)
-Eliminate toxic situations whenever possible
BEWARE
It is important that you take care of yourself and your own needs first of all. In this way you can take better care of your partner and also your children. If you feel good about yourself, you will feel good about everything else. Your most extreme type of care would be equivalent to normal care for a person who does not have children … it is necessary that you keep your body in good shape, that you work your physical and emotional resistance to do what you need at all times. To take care of yourself you must comply with these points:
-Sleep enough
-Eat healthy and balanced food
-Find time for yourself whenever possible: play sports, enjoy activities of your interest or simply time to do nothing.
KEEP YOUR BALANCE
Managing family stress requires good balance. This means maintaining balance in all areas of your life: balancing work with family time, balancing meeting your needs with the needs of your children and your partner, balancing time spent away from home and time what about the family, etc. Here are some important ways to balance for you to focus right now:
-Create a balance between children’s activities, your activities, downtime and sleep time
-Do fun things to create memories and beautiful experiences as a family. But not so many that everyone is overwhelmed. You must be honest with yourself.
-Don’t do things you don’t want to do.
-Enjoy every minute
-Remember that the complicated will happen
-Savor positive experiences
-Be a grateful person
-Focus on what you learn from your children and how they enrich your life every day
-There are many things you can do to take care of your partner (romantic dates every night, intimate nights, improve communication, etc.)
-Be patient with yourself and with others
-Create beautiful family moments
-Maintain friendship with other families
If you feel that everything is beginning to go wrong, that stress is taking you on and that you are usually always angry, then you will have to seek family advice to help you focus on what is most important every day.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.