The best relationship advice no one ever told you

In a relationship rut? Feel like you and your spouse are ships passing in the night? More than 20 years into our marriage, we found a simple 5-minute exercise that changed everything for us. It's called the Daily Temperature Reading.

You do it face to face and eye to eye, once a day, in under five minutes. Here are the seven steps:

1️⃣ Appreciations: share one thing you noticed and are grateful for 2️⃣ New Information: keep each other updated on work, kids, and life 3️⃣ Puzzles: bring up something you're trying to figure out 4️⃣ Complaints with a Request for Change: let off a little steam in a safe space (don't go nuclear!) 5️⃣ Apologies: real ones, asking for forgiveness 6️⃣ Prayer Requests: carry each other's intentions 7️⃣ Wishes, Hopes & Dreams: dream together and row in the same direction

Stay to the end for a bonus tip just for the guys.

🙏 Support our ministry on Patreon: https://patreon.com/jasonevert

📄 FREE printable PDF of the steps, plus a free ebook on human love: https://chastity.com/daily-check-in/ 🎙️ Our 3+ hour interview on Pints with Aquinas with Matt Fradd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbKYnfK3dbs

We learned this exercise at a marriage retreat with Dr. Bob Schuchts and the team at the John Paul II Healing Center. We're so grateful for their work and highly recommend their retreats: https://jpiihealingcenter.org

The Daily Temperature Reading was originally developed by family therapist Virginia Satir.

Try it and let us know in the comments how it goes!