Playfulness and Passion: Here’s why you should be prioritising playfulness in your relationships
Play encourages passion within relationships because it keeps desire alive.
Playfulness invites passion.
Passion builds desire and connection.
Couples and partners who continue to be playful with each other are more likely to experience longer, more fulfilling relationships.
Playfulness encourages adults to bring back elements of curiosity, silliness and presence.
Play invites laughter, it invites trying without failure, trying without heavily weighted expectations and goals.
Playfulness thrives with authenticity.
It simply allows partners to explore communication and connection with a sense of ease, acceptance and open mindedness.
All while building emotional safety, without boredom.
Desire and passion thrive with emotional safety.
And playfulness is a powerful way for couples to show vulnerability and be authentically goofy, without fear of judgement.
Playfulness stimulates desire because it creates spontaneity, it encourages imagination and wonder which are essential for keeping passion alive.
Play invites partners to shake up routine intimacy and continue building connection, even in longer term relationships.
Connection fuels passion within relationships and play is what supports couples to connect.
Playfulness in relationship builds emotional chemistry. Flirting and approaching day - to - day life together with an element of playfulness makes even the most mundane tasks meaningful.
Sometimes playfulness can be as simple as inside jokes, spontaneous adventures, dancing, play fighting or making up silly voices and stories just to be goofy.
These a few super simple, extra fun ways to introduce play into your relationship:
Write flirty notes and leave them for your partner.
Pop a little spicy note somewhere they will find it. On the mirror, or bench. In a book they’ve been reading.
e.g.
An activity: ‘Come meet me in the kitchen in 10 mins for a surprise’
A spicy message: ‘I just want you to know I’m still thinking about the way you touched me last night’
2. Play a game, invite an element of competition with prizes.
Choose a game together, card or board game or even a video game. Each person picks a prize that they would like if they win. It could be something simple “I get to sleep in tomorrow while you drop the kids off’
or spicy “I want you to give me a full body massage if I win”
3. Plan an adventure together.
Plan to spend your next day off together checking out something new! It could be a hike, an art gallery, going for a coffee or out for lunch in a new town or suburb. Go for a drive, play music you both love and go exploring together.
Relationships that prioritise play are essentially prioritising building passion and connection.
While it can come naturally at the start of the relationship, the most important part is to continue making space for play within the relationship as it grows over time.
Studies have shown again and again, that adults who continue to approach life playfully, have much greater relationship satisfaction. They also happen to be some of the most content and inspired people in society!
Simply put, play is essential for passion.
When you start prioritising play, you will fuel desire and connection within your relationship.
If you needed this reminder, this is your gentle nudge to start prioritising today.
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