When a couple wants to rebuild their connection

That the two of you want to rebuild your connection, rather than let it keep fading, is itself the beginning of its return. The connection faded from neglect, not from the death of love — it was crowded out by logistics and routine and taking-for-granted, so you did not fall out of love so much as out of connection, and a connection lost to neglect can be rebuilt by attention; name this together without blame. Rebuild through real conversation and shared time — set aside time only for each other, free of screens and the children, talk about your inner lives and not just the schedule, for the connection that faded through parallel lives is restored through actually meeting again. And both turn toward each other, again and again — respond to each other's bids for closeness in the small daily moments, for connection is remade not in one grand conversation but in the accumulation of small turnings-toward. What faded between you, and what would feeling close again look like?