Originally Posted by kymbakitty

I know things could be very different raising two children, but we've always had a "travel fund" that we would put money into every month automatically--just like a Christmas Fund. We didn't even see it...if we had, I'm sure we would have had 100 other things to do with it.

Perhaps you could start one and just know it is for flights only...and watch kayak or the many other sites that allows you to put in your "wish list" and it will watch the airfare for you--it's free and what a time saver!

Good luck!!!

Dawn

PS: If your kids see you take time out for your relationship (without them), they will learn to do this with their husband/wife. You can't have it both ways--if you model this for them and take time away from them to build/strenghten your marriage, they will follow suit and know this is "okay." If you don't model this for them, it is unlikely they will ever feel that is "okay" to take time away from their children. And as grandparents (someday), you would love nothing more than to have your children have the best marriage/relationship with their spouse, which should include mom/dad alone time/vacations, but it will be foreign to them if they didn't live it growing up. Just my 2 cents....