Roommate syndrome is unfortunately an all-too-common experience for couples in long-term relationships, and is especially a force to be reckoned with for new parents or couples with children. Learn what roommate syndrome is and how to rekindle the flame in your relationship, plus get our FREE e-book that will teach you The Fun Way to banish roommate syndrome for good!

What is roommate syndrome?

Roommate syndrome: When your relationship with your partner – the person who is supposed to be the love of your life – starts to look more like a platonic friendship between two bickering roommates. There’s little romance, little sex, and little fun. You may even start questioning whether there is still any love left in the relationship.

(Spoiler alert: THERE IS! And we can help you feel it again – the fun way.)

If this sounds like you, you and your partner might be suffering from roommate syndrome:

• Every evening after the kids go to bed, you each retire to your own room of the house to do your own things, or to opposite ends of the couch where you sit scrolling your phones instead of interacting.
• The majority of your conversations are about whose turn it is to change a dirty diaper, do the groceries, or take out the trash.
• You can’t remember the last time you laughed together or did anything silly.
• Sex with your partner feels like a chore rather than something fun to do together.
• You both seem to be living your own separate lives together in one home, and only the children or your mutual household responsibilities seem to bring you together.

Any of these sounding familiar?

If so, you and your partner may be suffering from roommate syndrome. But don’t panic! There’s a way to get that spark back and feel like loving spouses again.

Isn’t roommate syndrome normal after having kids?

Ask your girlfriends and they will tell you: roommate syndrome with your partner after baby’s arrival is totally normal – it’s just a phase that will pass with time.

Yes, it is completely normal and all too common, and yeah, like anything it might pass with time. But is it worth taking the risk that it doesn’t?

You can wait out the storm and just let things get better on their own over the next YEARS, but during that whole time your love, connection, and friendship are going to slowly be breaking down and disappearing. Are you sure you’ll be able to recover on the other end? Or are you willing to work that much harder later to get your relationship back?

Another thing to consider is that parenting is hard! Really frickin’ hard. And it only gets harder when you and your partner aren’t working together as a team. When you’re bickering and pissing each other off and not being aware of each other’s needs. That’s not a productive way to parent!

There is a better way!

Don’t miss the first years of your children’s lives in a failing marriage. It’s distracting and draining and not a healthy environment for your children to grow up in. Young children are so incredibly impacted by their parents’ vibes and learn everything about relationships from us.

Our method, The Fun Way is your lifeline to maintaining and strengthening your marriage, even while you have little kids constantly clinging to you. Even when you’re exhausted. Even when there seems to be a billion things to do. Even when it seems like you and your husband are “fine.”

Be better than fine!

Kicking roommate syndrome to the curb only requires a small commitment for a huge reward to your relationship, your family dynamics, and your own happiness. And the commitment we are asking you for? HAVE SOME FUN!

Isn’t it worth a try?

Rekindle the flame in your marriage by having some fun

When we open the door to fun, our stresses melt away, our to-do lists magically seem shorter, and our partners once again become the people we fell in love with. Fun brings us back from the hardships of adulthood to a place that is much more inviting: the comforts of a relationship with our best friend filled with laughter, new experiences, and love.

Fun takes us back to a place where you and your partner enjoy talking to each other about silly things. Where you want to have wild sex. Where you would rather spend time together with your hubby than doing just about anything else in the world. Where chores don’t seem like such a burden. Where you both contribute equally as a team to a happy household. Where you feel like you again.

The Fun Way is your ticket back to the relationship you remember when you first fell in love and your ticket forward into the family life you’ve always dreamed of.

So all aboard the fun train! Let’s turn that roommate back into your hubby and get that flame rekindled.

Read our FREE e-book to learn how to kick roommate syndrome’s ass

Don’t let roommate syndrome plague your relationship. Have some fun and find that loving feeling again. We explain step-by-step how The Fun Way can help your relationship in our free e-book Forget Roommate Syndrome: The Fun Way to Rekindle the Flame in Your Marriage With Kids. Just click “READ NOW” below to get started!

What’s included in The Fun Way e-book

Your e-book explains more about what The Fun Way is and how you can apply it in common scenarios in your relationship, even when you are busy with little kids.

In the book, you will find what to do:

• When you don’t feel in love anymore
• When he can just kick back and relax
• When you’re stressed
• When he isn’t helping
• When he doesn’t want to spend time with you
• When you need quality time
• When he won’t talk
• When you never connect anymore
• When you have no common interests
• When you are keeping score
• When you are friggin’ exhausted
• When you have zero sex drive
• When you can’t relax
• When you have no village to help
• When you are fighting

Are you ready to rekindle the flame in your marriage?

At Dating in Captivity, we believe that fun is the key to banishing roommate syndrome for good. With a little investment in having fun, you will see your relationship blossom into something far beyond just two people living together in the same house.

Imagine if instead you could be a team. Lovers. Best friends. If you could enjoy laughter and silliness and new experiences together, even when you have the demands and responsibilities of little kids.

We believe you truly can have it all.

Let’s have some fun!