How to Keep Your Relationship Alive After Baby Arrives

Babies are a blessing – but they’re also one of the key life events that can cause libido changes – because they leave significantly less time and energy for your relationship. If you’re looking for ways of how to keep your relationship alive after baby arrives, it can be reassuring to know it doesn’t have to be complicated or take hours – it just has to be done.

When you commit to small actions, every day, you’ll enjoy your relationship so much more (and possibly, even your baby!) because you’re not simultaneously stressing out about your partner. You’re adoring them.

4 Ways Of How To Keep Your Relationship Alive After Baby Arrives

1. Share a 6-second long kiss

Sexual intimacy often falls to the wayside in the early stages of parenthood. If you’re looking for ways of injecting energy and passion into your relationship or marriage – one good way, that keeps the fire burning, is sharing a 6-second long kiss.

Sharing one kiss a day that’s 6 seconds long will boost the romance and make sure to keep your relationship alive – even when your baby is stealing most of your time and energy.

2. Schedule alone time – for yourself and your relationship

Babies take up a lot of our time. They need to be fed, changed, and put to sleep round the clock – meaning there’s little time for anything else.

Even if this can’t be avoided, just 10-15 minutes a day with your partner, or half an hour per week, can do wonders for your connection.

Create healthy relationship expectations by both committing to simple things – going for a walk and holding hands, watching a funny YouTube clip, reminiscing about fond memories. It doesn’t have to be expensive or flashy. The important thing is that you prioritize each other and connect.

Esther Perel talks about the importance of cultivating your own identity as a means of keeping the heat in your relationship.

She means that sexual desire exists in the space between us, and in order for that space to survive – we need to hang on to who we are as individuals.

As time to yourself doesn’t magically appear when you have a small baby, you need to work at prioritizing it. And just as with time for your relationship, it doesn’t have to be hours – even 10 minutes to yourself where you focus on you and what you want, can be enough.

3. 60 seconds of intimacy, 3 times a day

Another way of keeping your relationship alive after baby arrives is by committing to 60 seconds of intimacy, 3 times a day. This intimate 1-minute moment doesn’t have to be sex, or even lead to anything remotely sexual.

The only requirements for this exercise are that these 60 seconds are something you two share together and don’t involve practical talk, like who’s putting baby to sleep or who’s going to do the washing up.

Examples might be:

• sharing a moment holding hands,

• gazing into each other’s eyes,

• or having a cup of coffee together.

It’s truly that simple!

If you do this three times a day, every day, you’ll likely find that you’ve hacked the code to keeping your relationship loving.

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4. Remind each other that this too shall pass

When you’re rolling the pram indoors at 3AM because your baby just won’t sleep, or you’re wiping yourself down after yet another spit-up session – it’s easy to forget that this won’t always last.

When it’s tough – and it invariably is with a baby – take turns reminding each other that it won’t always be like this.

By telling each other that this too shall pass, you’re bringing yourselves out of a negative headspace and into a more positive one.

It doesn’t mean the struggles all stop – it does, however, offer some temporary relief from the negative, catastrophic thoughts racing around your brain.

At the same time, you and your partner are offering each other emotional support, helping you both get through this as a team. This boosts emotional intimacy and is helpful for how to keep your relationship alive after baby arrives.

And when emotional intimacy is boosted – you might just find yourself wanting to be closer to your partner sexually, too. Read more in this blog post if you’d like tips on how to ease into having sex after a long period of time.

Keeping The Spark Alive Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult

When things are hard, we tend to feel like the solution has to be complicated. When it comes to getting through the baby years with your relationship in tact—it can be simple.

In order for you to keep your relationship alive after baby arrives, you only need a minimum of 6 seconds and a maximum of 10 minutes per day. That’s it. In this time, you can either share a 6-second-long kiss, share 60 seconds of intimacy 3 times throughout the day, or 10 minutes to yourself or your relationship. By doing this you’ll be able to keep the fire burning and grow your emotional connection.