How? Here are some ideas for an expensive, yet meaningful, date acitivites to avoid marriage burn-out. Great tips from Nancy Van Pelt.
1. Kidnap your partner for a mini-vacation. – an afternoon or evening of something he/she has been wanting to do
2. Drive through a new housing development and tour a model home.
3. Check out new furniture in a furniture store. (it does not cost anything to look)
4. Take a stroll through the park. Try out the swings and see who can swing the highest.
5. Take a tour of yesteryear – cuddle in bed; stip a hot drink; or spend an hour going through family albums together, reminiscing about fun times shared in the past.
6. Take a late-evening walk. Talk about what’s on your hearts. (be sure it won’t end up in a nagging or whinning)
7. Go exploring – any place your mate would like to go (within reason) = to a mountaikn hideaway or a ghost town you’ve heard about.
8. Buy a copule bottles of bubble blowing liquied. Go to the top of the tallest place around – a building, a mountain, the roof of your house. Blow the bubbles and watch them drift out of sight.
9. Go to the nearest pond orlake to feed the ducks. Toss leftover bread to the ducks while you watch them dive and fight for lunch.
10. Try a hot-tub date. If you don’t have a tub, use a friends. (Or you can even check out a hotel or motel in town) Let the hot, bubbling water soak your stress away. Talk about something fun.
11. Dress up in your best clothes, and then go to eat – at McDonalds! Your formal attire in an informal place will be fun. Play footsie with each other under the table.
12. Create a treasure hunt for your mate. Begin with a note directing him to a specific drawer in the kitchen, where he’ll find another note telling him to go to the car, where there will be a bouquet of flowers with a note with instruction on what to do.
13. Take turns asking each other out on a date.
14. While one of you is atg a board meeting and the other is driving thge kids to music lessons, redezvous someplace and share a bag of M & M’s.
15. Be adventurous. Climb a mountain together, go surfing, or travel to a foreign country.
16. Take a night class together 0 cooking, photography, landscaping, a foreign language, or craft. This provides something new to talk about.
17. Meet for lunch one day a week. This gives you both something to look forward to and breaks the monotony of the week.
18. Plan an afternoon of biking in a favorite neighborhood, in the country or an interesting place. Take memory pictures.
19. If you have a sick child or lack a sitter, plan a date in your bedroom or in a cozy bath converted into a luxury spa for two. Light the candles, play your favorite romantic music, and read love letters you wrote for each other long time ago. Add a cup of tea and homemade cookies, and you’ve got an interesting evening.
20. Make a list of six acitivities you would like to do with your mate. At least once a month take turns picking one activity from your partner’s list and joining with gusto. Whether it’s horseback riding, scuba diving, or in-line skating, participate graciously just as you would if you were dating and not married.