Being Present is a Great Present!

YOU are the package!  You can be more present for your partner this silly, busy season…

• Touch base  - spend five minutes – sitting down, looking at one another, to talk about plans
• Eye contact is amazing!! If you often talk on the run or while you are doing something – turn to face your partner and engage your  eyes and establish the connection first
• Show appreciation – the list of jobs not done is endless, so notice what is happening and praise
• Be on the same team  - what keeps us close is that felt sense that we are on the same team, have got each other’s backs and will turn up for one another if needed! Be helpful
• Listen - never underestimate the power of listening without fixing
• Smile to show you care - smiling and nodding show you care though your facial expressions
• Offer some reassuring words: “I understand.  Hang in there. We’ll be o.k.” or “I’ve got you!”

A relationship is an attachment bond and secure attachment is dependent on more than what you unwrapped under the tree on Christmas morning. 
Wrap yourself up this Christmas – being present IS the best present!!