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Babying Your Relationship While TTC
Work on Your Relationship While Waiting to Conceive
By Teri Brown
Tips You Can Use
Dr. Haltzman offers the following tips for using this time as a way to strengthen and reinforce your marital intimacy: 
When you discuss things, make your top priority trying to understand your partner's point of view, NOT making sure your partner understands yours. - Marriage is not 50/50. Each of you should be putting 100 percent of your energies into giving, NOT giving partway and then waiting around to get what you think you deserve.
- Communication doesn't equal talk. Remember that people communicate in many ways, from their looks to their actions or inactions. Be aware that just because your partner may not be having a heart-to-heart, deep conversation with you, he or she may still be trying to communicate very powerfully with you.
- Sex is a part of establishing closeness in a marriage. It's not merely some add-on to marriage when other things are going smoothly. Couples should recognize that having a healthy marriage includes regularly engaging in conversations and regularly engaging in sex. Both are powerful tools in keeping a couple close.
- Fight fair. Couples who are happily married don't fight less than couples who divorce – they fight better. Knowing how to start a discussion gently, and then being sure to work to heal things when you're not pumped up with adrenaline, can help a couple find greater happiness in their union.
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