A while back, I read a study that stated that - the average couple spends less than 30 minutes a week in one-on-one personal intimate dialogue. If this is anywhere near accurate, it is a sad commentary on the quality of today’s relationships. (Keep in mind this time was quiet time when not: having sex, having dinner with the kids, shopping, working in the yard or whatever. It was dedicated - let’s talk time.)

You can’t build a positive, nurturing, loving and lasting relationship on 26 hours of shared time a year. It is even hard to build a real, solid, and long lasting friendship in this amount of time. How are you doing? Are you spending more than 1 hour a week in personal, intimate, real and vulnerable sharing with your significant other? If not why not?

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Are your reasons listed above? If so why not take some time and evaluate them inn ore detail. If you can’t do it with your significant other, then at least do it alone and come up with your own reasons or causes.

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One of the reasons above that people use to justify their lack of presence with those they love is to bear gifts, lots of stuff. In most case theses people would much rather have the gift of our presence than our presents.

Presents can never make up for the lack of presence. People who (and I have been guilty of this many times) believe that they can justify the lack of presence with presents fail to understand what the special people in our lives really want. They want more of us, or even some of us, or for some people even just a little of us.

You share yourself with others by “being” with them. You are not with them if when you are with them you are mentally somewhere else. I know this sentence may be a little confusing but those of you who need to do a better job of being present know who you are and I am confident you get my point.

Gifts are nice if they are given with no strings and no emotional expectations. We are only fooling ourselves when we think we can barter our gifts to satisfy our own emotional weaknesses.

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