New Year’s New Vows

An Exercise In Love

A New Year gives an opportunity to renew.  Often resolutions are about creating a new goal in the New Year. When it comes to our relationships we don’t always need new goals, we simple need to recommit to the goals we started with. So in this New Year revisit your relationship commitments and renew your vows. You can do this in or out of marriage.

Typically, wedding vows are thought of as a set of promises made by the bride and groom to each other during a wedding ceremony. This is often done without really thinking through what we are saying, but more how we can sound good, romantic and loving.  Let’s take the wedding ceremony out of the vows, let’s take the audience out, let us take sounding eloquent out and let’s just be you and your relationship partner. You don’t need a wedding to commit to and express your love for each other. You can do that at anytime and doing so during the New Year is a fantastic way to start your year together.

After all what is a vow? It is more than a promise, it is what the person in your life means to you and how you are motivated to love and be with that person. As a relationship develops and we get comfortable in our routines and busy in our lives, often the importance of why we are with the person we are with goes into the background. As the years go by even though we are together, the reasons why fade more and more.

Instead of letting our relationship fire burn out, let’s relight our fire by reminding ourselves and our relationship partner why you love each other and how that motivates you to be there for each other. So take an exercise in love this New Year.  Together you and your partner take the time and write down exactly what you love about your partner, how it makes you feel and what you will do this year to honor that.  From sweet to funny, share with each other your New Year’s vows.

I know many will think this is silly, but the only thing that is silly is believing it is silly to express your love in a relationship. So get over your fears, your objections and your reason why not. Enjoy your New Year with New Year’s Vows. This New Year relight your relationship fire and make it a New Year’s tradition.

Wishing you and your partner love and happiness in the New Year,