Family matters

6 WAYS TO WITH ENGAGE WITH YOUR FOLKS, REJUVENATE RELATIONSHIPS AND TAKE CARE OF HEALTHY

Revisiting memories

Mohit and Shivani Jain. (Art gallery owner; homemaker.)

1. Cataloguing their art collection and arranging old photos in albums, apart from cooking and playing board games.

My husband and I have very little patience for each other, so this exercise in isolation is particularly challenging, confesses homemaker Shivani Jain, 40, who lives in Delhi with her husband, Mohit Jain, 47 owner of the Dhoomimal Art Centre. Though they have been married for nearly 20 years, the close confinement soon began to feel interminable, so they both agreed it was time to change the rules of engagement and find ways to reconnect without getting on each other's nerves. Just the other day, we realised that we had never seen our honeymoon pictures since we returned from our honeymoon. So we took all our photographs from the time and started arranging them in albums, which we had promised to do but never gotten around