If your like me we love our spouses and a lot of the time we take advantage of them and w never tell them thank you for all they do for us. Which is why I was excited to find out January 26th is National Souse Day. We shouldn’t depend on a holiday to show apperception to our husbands we should show them every day. But since most of us don’t do that I would like to ask you to celebrate National Spouse Day with us.
National Spouse Day is unknown, but one would assume a married person came up with the holiday. People say National Spouse Day originated from the establishment of Military Spouses Day which was created in 1984. The Holiday started becoming popular around the millennium. National Spouse Day is celebrated as a national holiday on January 26 officially in the USA and UK, but Countries celebrate National Spouse Day as well.
National Spouse Day comes from the idea of showing thanks to our significant other. Did you know workplaces even encourage couples to go on leave to celebrate National Spouses Day and spend the day with their spouses.
National Spouse Day was created for giving time rather than gifts and celebrating our spouse. Couples are encouraged to spend alone time and to reflect on their relationships. Scientific research has shown that twenty minutes of holding hands with your partner or cuddling even, can release hormones that leaves you happier and feeling good which relieves stress and makes you feel closer to one another.
National Spouse Day has become well known for igniting many media sources to survey couples’ behaviors and relationships and has managed to find facts including two million people get married every year in the U.S alone. 17% of those people have previously been married.
Many couples have expressed feeling as though life can get too busy, and National Spouse Day is key to revitalizing relationships at the start of the New Year. Others feel that your spouse should be celebrated everyday, but that an official day to commemorate your significant other is also seen as an honor.
NATIONAL SPOUSE DAY ACTIVITIES
Grab your significant other and revisit the first place you met which can help recreate how you used to feel.
Food has a way of making anyone happy and today is the perfect night to surprise your partner by cooking a meal. Set the dinning room table with candles and put away all the electronics. Then sit down and spend time together talking and enjoying each other.
Look back on your wedding day which is more fun if you’re not a newlywed. Purchase the Newlywed Game or look questions up online and see how well you and your spouse actually know each other?
FACTS ABOUT SPOUSES THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
Research shows that year three of marriage is usually the happiest for the majority of couples.
300 couples get married in Las Vegas every day.
In France, it’s actually legal to marry a dead person.
WHY PEOPLE LOVE NATIONAL SPOUSE DAY
National Spouse Day is a reminder of your love
National Spouse Day should allow for special quality time that many couples crave. National Spouse Day can ignite memories of your first date, your wedding, or the birth of your child which will remind you why you chose your partner in the first place and why you compatible.
National Spouse Day is inclusive to boyfriends, girlfriends, fiancés, and newlyweds. The holiday does not discriminate and is not just for married couples. National Spouse Day is devoted to all types of couples. Everyone has the opportunity to celebrate there best friend or soon to be legal partner spending quality time honoring each other.
In this day and age, we sometimes don’t have time to stop and show appreciation for our partner or to slow down. National Spouse Day works across the board for people in different situations.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
