WRAL: How I prioritize marriage as a working mom

Stephanie Llorente, owner of Restored, is a regular contributor to the WRAL-TV Go Ask Mom blog where she writes about relevant topics for working moms. We repost that content here.

When I first got married in 2007, I got a lot of advice. From parents. From mentors. From pastors. From friends. From co-workers. From sweet aunts and well-meaning uncles. And it was good advice. I just couldn’t fully understand it – not because I was deft or uninterested, but because I hadn’t lived in marriage yet.

I’m thankful for their advice now, but there is one piece of advice I don’t remember hearing: How to prioritize your marriage as a working mom. I’m 99 percent sure no one offered it because literally no woman has ever fully figured it out!

To be clear, I haven’t either. I’m a proud member of the “I Don’t Have It Figured Out Yet” club, but moms need the benefit of those who have gone before them and deserve the insight that comes with time (and prayers, and wine…). So, instead of waiting for the perfect solution to an age-old problem, I’m openly sharing how we try to prioritize our marriage. I know our marriage methods are imperfect, and our life rhythms are ours to own, but maybe – just maybe – these words will resonate with another mom in the trenches…and that’s worth its weight in gold.