Keeping Your Relationship Alive During Pregnancy
If your pregnant and married or in a relationship you might be having a hard time keeping the romance alive...this article will help you with this!
Relationships are difficult enough to sustain under normal circumstances and keeping your relationship alive is no different. Add to that getting fat, being cranky, feeling sore, and getting emotional at the drop of a hat and you have just added a lot of additional stressors on your relationship. Yes, being pregnant can put a strain on a relationship. From a woman’s perspective, you feel terrible, you feel like you look terrible and your emotions are so all over the place that neither you not anyone else can anticipate how you will react to anything. Add to that the financial burden of medical expenses and an upcoming baby and you have a ticking time bomb.
The good news is pregnancy is temporary. It lasts a while but it will eventually be over nonetheless. Your hormones will go back to normal; you will feel like yourself again eventually. But what do you do in the meantime to keep the relationship alive? First, you need to recognize that you are pregnant and this is a different state. Also, he needs to realize this and be patient with you. It can cause tension in a relationship but three are ways around it starting with communication. You should both talk about the situation regularly especially when you feel things are strained. Just getting it out in the open will help a lot.
Next, make sure your man is involved with your pregnancy. No, he can’t feel what you are feeling but if he is aware of it and is involved with all the ins and outs of your pregnancy he will feel more sympathetic to your plight and also feel like he is a part of what is going on. You need to try to do some normal couple things while you are pregnant. Go out, have some fun and take some time to be romantic with each other to keep your relationship alive. Sometimes this can be difficult when you don’t feel well but it is important.
You need to have a balance between baby activities and couple activities for keeping the relationship alive and romantic. Keeping him involved with planning the nursery and going to doctor’s appointments will help but also going out to a movie or having a nice dinner will keep a sense of togetherness. You will feel better knowing he still sees you as a woman and sexual being and this may very well help to alleviate some of your insecurities during this time.