The months after your wedding?also known as the newlywed phase?are an exciting, wonderful time for couples. You?re still basking in that post-wedding glow and beginning to figure out how you and your partner are going to work together as a married couple. Depending on whether or not you lived together before your big day, there may be lots of practical things to figure out: What would you like the temperature of your home to be" Who will be in charge of what chores" What time do you like to go to bed or get up in the morning"
If you or your partner have children, however, there may be many, many more things to figure out as you learn to navigate this new phase of life with your happiness?and your sanity?still intact. Here are some ways to make this transition into new family life easier. Go On a Couple-Only Honeymoon

I?ve said it before and I?ll say it again: make sure you go on a honeymoon as a couple before you jump right into family life! Not only do you and your partner need that time to be romantic and excited about your future together, it is also a great time to start discussing what you?d like your lives to look like now that you?re an official family. Although I wouldn?t necessarily recommend focusing your honeymoon on creating family rules or chatting about kids? chore charts, this alone time can be useful for starting to brainstorm and discuss what your ideas and hopes are. Having that one-on-one time to bond together will keep the newlywed glow ...