Welcome to 2024 with Hope Springs!

Celebrating a New Year

New year signals a fresh start—an opportunity to reflect on the past year of your relationship and explore your future together.  New Year’s relationship resolutions may be just the spark you need. 

Your relationship is constantly evolving as you and your partner spend more time together. Reassess the state of your relationship, paying particular attention to how you both felt about your relationship over the past year.

• What aspect of your relationship was most satisfying?

• Most frustrating?

• what would you like to see changed?

• Where would you like to see progress? 

SET REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

Reflect upon the things you’d like to change as well as what a realistic change would look like.  If you and your partner have been struggling, don’t expect change to happen overnight.  However, making a long-term commitment to each other is the first step in getting your relationship to where you want it to be.  Dialogue about where you want your relationship to be in two months, six months, a year……..

BREAK DOWN YOUR GOALS

Good resolutions include specific details and the bigger picture.  While having a stronger relationship may be your ultimate goal, improving your communication about small, everyday topics (like your day at work) or the way you decide which show to watch together make for specific, attainable goals.  

Breaking your resolutions into smaller goals makes them less daunting. 

EMBRACE THE PROCESS

Let Hope Springs assist you to focus on the means of getting to where you want to be, not just the end goal. Improving your relationship is a process.  We can journey together as you get to know your partner on a deeper, more intimate level through . 

(From the Gottman Institute)