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Poll: How did having children affect your couple?

How did having children affect your couple?
Options:
It gave us strength, we are closer than ever
Sure intimacy is trickier, but we also gained a lot
It was challenging at first but we're learning to adjust
It was very difficult for us as a couple
Results:

It gave us strength, we are closer than ever
23%
Sure intimacy is trickier, but we also gained a lot
29%
It was challenging at first but we're learning to adjust
25%
It was very difficult for us as a couple
22%
Total votes: 241
Created by Kathy
Posted on 01/29/2008 03:22 PM
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Comments:
My husband works two jobs. He leaves before we get up in the morning and comes home around 5p, has dinner with us, leaves again for his second job, and comes home right before we put are son to bed but the upside is that we get him more on the weekends.
posted by Chelle on 01/30/2008 04:06 PM
We barely ever get couple time. We always say that we should just schedule it in but we never do. The daily grind seems to take over and we have just enough time in the day to do what needs to be done. Anyone offering to babysit? (LOL)
posted by elaine on 03/31/2008 12:34 PM
My husband and I were married for a very short time before having our baby girl. We havent had the type of "married life" prior to family life that most couples have but we make it a point to talk through issues that come up and of course try to make time for intimacy.
We learn more about each other every day and looking at our daughter reminds us of what our love brought about!!
posted by Allison on 05/08/2008 01:17 AM
We were married for 15 years before our child came along. We had lots of difficulty and stress revolving around the birth of our son. We do everything with him now. He's going to be four in December and I think we've gone out as a couple 3 times (Grandma and Grandpa live very close by and we have neighbors that love him dearly and would take him whenever we needed). We are very close as a family but our "couple" and all that goes along with it has really been put on hold. So far, everyone seems to be ok with the situation, although my hubby would like more sex. But, I must admit, that was happening before baby came too.
posted by Michelle on 06/24/2008 09:07 AM
We were married for just over three yrs when we had our daughter but being militaly and everything that was going on at the time we actualy only lived in the same house for half of that time. It was little hard at first cause we moved when our daughter was 3 months but my husband had been working his new job since Victoria was 2 wks and driving the 250 miles every other week to see us and help pack. We said when I was pregnant that we would leave Victoria with her grandparents and go out once a wk for our sake haha!! -- because of moving so much we have only been out with out her a handful of times. Its just so hard to find a good baby sitter when we moved for times in the last yr and 3 months.
As for sex we would both like it a little more but moving, new job stress and being to tired well you get the idea. Some how we find time though other wise I would be pregnant right now.
posted by Anne on 12/29/2008 01:56 AM
My husband and i had our daughter after 2 years of dating. we got married on our 3 year anniversary, she was 1 year old and was our flower girl. Things still get hard sometimes, but we both love being parents and hope to have another when she is 3 or 4
posted by Courtney on 09/02/2010 11:15 AM
My husband and I got married when I was 8 months pregnant, so we got very little "married time" before our son came. We didn't get married just because of him. We were planning to get married before, but I wouldn't change it for the world. We have become stronger, and love each other, and our son, more and more every day!
posted by Taylor on 04/24/2013 08:18 PM
  
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