Time Management

Time management is a valuable tool in life. The thing most people wouldn’t think needs great time management is relationships. If a couple, before they start dating, have different groups of friends, they definitely need time management. They need to learn that speding time with your friends and those of your s/o (significant other) equally is important. Everyone needs to spend time with your own friends…even sometimes without your s/o (if you have a different group of friends). A person needs to not spend every waking moment with their s/o. After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Also, a person needs to just be able to be with their friends. If your s/o fits into your group of friends (or you into your s/o’s group of friends) then its fine to hang out with either group of friends (or even as one big group) but make sure its equally with both groups. People dont want to leave their comfort zones; they did so to date and that is usually the most they want to or can handle leaving their comfort zone. Also, if one of the couple always hangs out with their s/o’s group of friends, when/if the relationship ends, they might have lost the “old gang” of friends they once had, or at least it could be hard to fall back into their comfort zone. The worst thing to do is to end up broken up with your s/o and have no one close to you to comfort you and tell you everything is going to be alright. And they can’t go to the s/o’s friends as they were originally the ex’s friends. They need their own friends to go to. Hence the reason they need to keep their old friends. Dating a person from a different group of friends is supposed to help you make more friends, not lose some.

Conversely, a couple has to learn not to spend too much time with friends. They need some alone time to be a couple and do “couple-y things”. After all, its awkward for everyone involved if a couple gets too into PDA. In addition, its not healthy for any relationship if the couple spends too much or not enough time together. The amount of time spent together should allow both parties to be comfortable.

For couples with the same original group of friends, you still need time management but it is perhaps a little easier. There only needs to be a balance between alone time and time with friends.

This one was a little personal to me so i hope it helps and that you liked it.