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52 Romantic Things To Do With Your Partner On Date
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One of the things
that works to keep relationships alive is spending quality time with
each other. In this day of the information age, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to carve out the necessary time to nurture our
relationships. What with long work hours, helping kids with their
homework, transporting them around to their extracurricular activities,
getting dinner, cleaning up and going through the bedtime routine, what
time is left?
Unless you
orchestrate
the time for your relationship, other less important things will crowd
in and take what precious little time you do have. Pick a night that
will be “date night” with your partner and make a
game out
of being as creative as you can be. Try to see how many things you can
do without spending money.
To get you
started,
I’ve come up with some suggestions to help you for the next
year.
What follows are 52 ideas for how to spend creative time together
without spending money. Feel free to add or modify any of the items on
the list to suit your particular relationship and circumstances.
Winter
Dating
1. Take a
drive to look at the Christmas decorations.
2. Play
cards---perhaps strip poker.
3. Watch a
movie together.
4. Go
outside and have a snowball fight.
5. Get some
finger paints and create your own body art with each other as your
canvass.
6. Go
sleigh riding.
7. Go ice
skating.
8. Work out
or exercise together.
9. Stage
your own improvisation show.
10. Sing to
each other.
11. Review
or create a photo album or scrapbook of your memories together.
12. Play a
board game---perhaps chess, Scrabble or Twister.
13. Go to a
book store, get coffee and read for hours.
Spring
Dating
14. Work on
a remodeling project together.
15. Plan
and complete a yard work project together.
16. Do the
spring cleaning together---room by room. When done, reward yourself by
making love in the room you’ve cleaned.
17. Put on
old clothes and mud wrestle after some drenching rain.
18. Give
each other a massage.
19. Play
catch---football, baseball, softball or Frisbee.
20. Go to a
car dealer and test drive the car of your dreams.
21. Shoot
basketball together.
22. Dance
together.
23. Take a
shower together and wash each other---everywhere.
24. Take a
free adult education class together.
25. Go to a
mall and have a contest to see which one of you can get the most free
samples.
26. Go
rollerblading or bike riding.
Summer
Dating
27. Build a
campfire and roast marshmallows.
28. Go
swimming or skinny dipping.
29. Give
each other a manicure or pedicure.
30. Go
somewhere crowded to people watch.
31. Go to a
free outdoor event, perhaps a concert.
32. Lie on
a blanket outside and watch the clouds or stars.
33. Go on a
picnic.
34. Watch a
fireworks display.
35. Be
creative and
engage in sexual role plays. Be anyone you’d like to be for
the
night who is also exciting for your partner.
36. Sit by
the water somewhere.
37. Do a
prolonged strip tease for each other.
38. Have a
water balloon fight.
39. Sit
outside and read poetry to each other.
Fall
Dating
40. Go for
a drive together.
41. Go
window shopping.
42.
Incorporate food
into your love making---chocolate syrup, whipped cream, fondue,
strawberries---anything you and your partner enjoy.
43. Call or
write to someone you haven’t had contact with in a while.
44. Cook
something together.
45. Spend
an evening
just talking with each other. Talk about the things you have done,
plans you have for the future, important people in your lives or
current events.
46. Take a
bubble bath together.
47. Go to a
free movie or museum.
48. Take a
drive and find the potential in old houses and their properties.
49. Create
an imaginary story together---either orally or in written form.
50. Take
turns being each other’s genie in a bottle by fulfilling your
partner’s every wish and fantasy.
51. Play in
the fallen leaves.
52. Create
an exciting scavenger hunt that ends in your bed.
Now you
have 52
suggestions for things to do with your partner for every week of the
year divided by season. Certainly you don’t have to follow my
suggestions. Feel free to add your own or to repeat your favorites as
often as you’d like.
The main
point is not to
see how kinky you can get. The idea is to keep your relationship alive
by making time together a priority. It is important that you find
things to do as a couple that you can both enjoy. If you have vastly
different interests then you can enter this with the spirit of taking
turns and each agree to happily participate in the activity chosen by
the one whose turn it is that week.
As long as
you make a
habit of making your relationship a priority and allocating time each
week for rejuvenation of the feelings that attracted you in the first
place, then you stand a good chance of staying together for the long
haul.
Please
don’t let
insidious boredom enter into your relationship through the back door.
This is what frequently happens when we are busy placing other things
ahead of our time for each other. You know what I mean---the job, the
kids, our friend in crisis, etc. There will always be a competing
interest for the time you’ve set aside for each other.
Other than
natural
disasters, threat of death or major crises, do not allow your time
together to be invaded by any outside forces. Make sure to create
opportunities for you to do things together without outside influence.
With more than 50% of today’s marriages ending in divorce,
make
this small investment in the longevity of your relationship. You have
nothing to lose and everything to gain. What’s stopping you?
Start today.
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