Everyone knows the rose-colored glasses at the beginning of a relationship: you are head over heels in love and only see the best in your partner. A few years later, it can be fun to recreate the magic of the beginning. Take at least 20 minutes for this exercise with your partner.
This is how the exercise works:
1. Sit down with your partner and go back to the time when you met.
2. Where did you first meet? Did you feel attracted to each other straight away? If not, how and when did this happen?
3. Go through the first few months when you got serious. What did you think about each other? What qualities did you particularly like about each other?
4. Recall what you did together during this time. Maybe you shared a hobby, maybe you cooked for each other with passion – or simply walked for hours in the evening sun.
5. After you’ve reminisced for a while, ask yourself together whether you could incorporate some of these things into your everyday life again today. Of course, the first holiday together in the south of France is not that easy to repeat. But what speaks against a long walk? Or a two-course Italian meal in your home kitchen?
6. You can take your time doing this exercise – even a whole date if you want. Cook something delicious, open a bottle of wine – and travel back to the time of rose-colored glasses together.
Your feedback on this article to the editors
Article on the topic
Are the other couples happier? Are we still compatible?
And: Are we the only ones who argue so much? Why doubts about love are normal and how we gain clarity.
Nobody goes to a psychotherapist just because of their narcissism. But sometimes there are triggers that shatter the fragile self-image
Why is the suffering associated with unwanted childlessness so great? Two books are dedicated to the still often taboo topic.
