How much time should a couple spend together?

Time spent together as a couple should be beneficial to both. Couples just starting a new relationship may want to spend every spare minute together, which may sound unhealthy to outsiders but both are getting and receiving the intimacy they crave. As long as you and your partner feel this bond growing stronger, the linear time spent together should be viewed as healthy or unhealthy.

There's a lot going on during those first few weeks or months of a romantic relationship, so society's rules rarely apply. Don't be afraid to spend as much time together as possible during the earliest stages of a promising relationship.

As the relationship begins to take shape, however, it may be a good time to examine the effect it's having on your own personal life. Are you still meeting your other responsibilities-work, school, sleep? Are you maintaining your ties to family and friends? If you notice a definite and negative change in your daily routine, you may be spending too much time with your partner and not leaving enough time for yourself.

One of the hardest things to do in a new relationship is manage your time together wisely, but that's what needs to happen in order to maintain your own emotional and physical well-being. Whether it is a formal date or a casual visit, someone has to determine when it's time to part ways. It may not always be a mutual decision, but a time boundary must be established early in the relationship.

Here are some things to consider when spending healthy time together:

1. Work and school obligations.

2. Family and friends.

3. Personal identity.

4. Partner's comfort zone.

Got those from a website. Well I think its quite true. Hmmm however I do have something to add on to. Personally I feel that at the inital stage of the relationship, girls tend to be hesistant and they do not dare to commit so much. They try to find time for their friends. Whereas for guys, they prefer to have as much time as possible at the inital stage of the relationship.

Towards the latter part of the relationship, the girls become more committed and they want to spend more time with their partner. As for the guys, they prefer to have more individual time instead. This is because, for them, their thinking is that since we are together and are already so close we do not need to spend so much time together. Well, thats my personal thinking. I am not sure whether its true anot. =)