Keep The Love Alive
Bona|August 2017

Spending quality time with your loved one can help maintain a close tie between you.

Masanda Peter
Keep The Love Alive

Most couples strive to conserve the spark in their relationship by scheduling regular time together. The goal is to keep injecting creativity into your relationship and reconnect with each other. This can be done through simple actions such as taking walks together, or something more unusual such as taking an art class. Here are a few ideas to get you started and liven things up:

MAKE TIME

Life has its own challenges and there is so much to do – work, church activities and other commitments. These can swallow up your time and result in couples neglecting their relationship. But, you must make time to connect on a romantic level – just the two of you. There are many ways to do this, and these involve thinking out of the box.

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