Two people discuss how cooking with your spouse becomes fun when you're fully present and unplugged. They argue that ordinary routines turn playful when you treat them intentionally as fun time and try small novel things together.
Sometimes we don't even recognize that, or we wouldn't consider it play because it's just our normal lives, like cooking. Like, I love cooking, but I wouldn't necessarily call it play. But then when I'm in the kitchen with Matt next to me, I'm like, oh, this is totally more play. We're not on our phones. We're not doing business stuff. We're not watching tv. We're actually, you know, just listening to music and cutting things. So that's a good call.
We take it for granted, like, the normal, everyday things that aren't work, and we kind of view them a little bit as work because they're daily routine activities that we could mindlessly do and we're not present for. So I think that presence of saying, hey, this is actually fun time, and I don't have anything else to do or to focus on, and I can be present here having fun with my husband or doing whatever silly things or trying something new that engages the brain just a little bit.
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