How to find time with your partner among kid chaos

Finding time together... That challenge can seem as gargantuan as finding a parking spot at a Michael Kors 75-percent-off sale. (Sorry, my slip was showing.) Carving out one-on-one time with your partner is critical.

Your partnership is the foundation upon which the family is built. But the minutia of the daily grind erodes connection, it eats into free time, and it eats away at closeness. You and your partner become co-pilots instead of co-vivants.

But here’s the deal: Nurturing the primary partnership is about quality, not quantity. Here are a few ways to make your relationship "intimacy efficient"…