With the festive season around, what about bringing some excitement into your life around the holidays? No, we’re not talking cocktail night or travel. Something that you can do within the city, try doing within the regular days of the week. Role reversal is a fun activity that you can try as a couple. You don’t really have to look at gender-stereotyped roles here, simply swap the things you normally do with those that your partner does—whether they are chores at home, or running errands outside. It could be anything—big or small—but swap it, and try and do it. Try it at least for a week or more, and see how long you last. There are reasons galore you should try it, besides that it’s something new! Read on.
Spices things up
It’ll be a good change for you both, from your own routines. You will have so shuffle your day perhaps, move around a few things on your schedule to fit in the new things, and perhaps seem irritating in the beginning, but it will lead to a different kind of satisfaction once you are able to achieve it.
Creates healthy competition
You both need to lay down some ground rules before you decide to try it out. One of them should be that it should not create situations where you cross the line into pushing each other to match your standards. In fact, it should generate a lively, healthy competition, that whom did the friendly, neighborhood ‘sabziwala’ offer the higher discount (or freebies) to!
Generates empathy
It is an exercise which will definitely enable you to walk a mile in each other’s shoes and should make you appreciate the time and energy spent in doing things that you both perhaps took for granted. It’ll make you realize that what the other person does is as tough or time-consuming as what you do. The next time around you think or say something about it, you will think twice.
Strengthens emotional bonds
With everything that is new, if you feel like asking for a little help from your partner for accomplishing a task, just go right ahead and so it! If he acts pricey, let him have a good laugh and bond over it with him. It works both ways. Basically, understanding the other person’s viewpoint is essential, and with that new understanding, you will be able to bond better.
Helps redefine roles
Once you both have tried out what the other does, perhaps you will be able to take another look at what each of you used to do, and what you are able to do now. In that light, you both can sit down one evening and reshuffle your chore and errands schedule according to what suits whom better.
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