5 Things The Happiest Couples Do On Weekends, By A Psychologist

InnovationScience5 Things The Happiest Couples Do On Weekends, By A PsychologistByMark Travers,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology.Follow AuthorMay 10, 2026, 03:21pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.What separates a thriving couple from a disconnected one often comes down to weekends. Here’s how to start using yours to strengthen your love, according to research.gettyBalancing a full-time job with a personal life is already a demanding, precarious juggling act. Choose to add a romantic relationship into that mix, and it only becomes more difficult to manage. Yet simultaneously, the stakes get higher, too: the more a couple has to juggle, the more important getting the balance right becomes.Speaking both as someone who researches relationships and someone living in one, I’ve seen how easily weekends can slip by without finding the time or the means to meaningfully connect with your partner. But I’ve also learned that it doesn’t take much to turn that time into something genuinely restorative for both people involved.Here are five things that the happiest couples do together every weekend to keep their partnership strong, according to psychological research.1. Carve Out Quality Couple Time (With No Tech Allowed)According to a 2022 study from the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, partnered individuals experience lower work-life balance in comparison to singles, given the maintenance that a partnership demands. At face value, this probably seems like a damning statistic. But in context, this dissatisfaction typically arises from the perception that a relationship is the distracting factor in relation to work-life balance. In reality, for the majority of couples, it’s far more probable that work stress spillover is really the culprit to blame — aided a...