Reading to your lover. I have found this to be a rewarding and extremely intimate way to share time with my loved one. We have started to book called the "Love Languages of God". This book is written to provide individuals in relations with guidelines and recommendations on how to better understand the love languages of the other person. Typically we take turns reading the book chapter by chapter, with occasional intermissions to check and see if the other is sleeping or not. Since reading is neither one of our most favorite things to do, we have found that sharing the responsibility eases that tension of doing it on the constant basis.
For me reading to her makes me feel good. It helps me to hear myself read, and it sharpens my vocabulary. It is realy a win win situation. Especially since we are sharing something, and learning how we can better love the other person we are reading to. I am a firm believer that whatever a couple does together, helps them to stay together in those rough times. Will there be some, I sure there be. Have there been already? I would be lying if I said that there weren't. However, knowing that a person like herself, having the intentions of doing whatever it takes to make herself a "better person" in my eyes, because in her eyes she may not need to change, helps me to know that I may need to look a bit closer at our relationship and see what it is that "WE" can do to right the course of our love. Not that reading is the saviour to all relatioships and marriages, but I will tell you what, it sure is a good start.