One Snarky Chica with Issues

I don’t have kids, but I do have a significant other.

Sometimes it’s hard to find time to be with each other as we are both working “day jobs” to pay the bills that have absolutely nothing to do with what we really want to do in life - I guess you could say our ‘dream jobs.’

A typical workday involves us getting up and getting ready together. We ride together. We get home and go to our computers to work on stuff separately. We meet back downstairs for dinner. If we’re exhausted, we’ll watch something together. Otherwise, we part again to go be productive.

As you might imagine, this puts an incredible amount of strain on our relationship. We each know why we are doing things apart, but it doesn’t make it any easier.

The solution? Schedule in time to be together.

Forget about time management. Forget about being productive. Forget about goals.

Sometimes you just need to sit in the floor together and laugh. Or talk about things because god knows you haven’t had the time to talk to each other recently. Or go out to dinner. Not because you want to, or because you have extra money to spend, but because it means you get to spend time together with no interruptions and no excuses to head back to your computer.

Even just the smallest blocks of time can make a huge difference.

Now, if you’ll excuse me I need to go prepare to watch the Harry Potter special on A & E with my other half.