Setting up a date night takes some forethought and planning whether your kids are eight weeks, eight months or eight years old. Childcare is something you should always plan ahead. For the very young children, this may just mean getting the kids settled down for the night and enjoying some quality time together snuggling on the sofa.
If you are one of those couples that always seems to have something come up and interrupt the plans you’ve made, it may just be that you need to designate one night a week that is just for the two of you – and barring a real emergency – you are allowed to ask your family and your friends to bugger off for an evening.
Date nights don’t have to be rose petals and red carpets or candlelight and ballroom dancing, what they do have to do is be about you and your spouse and some time where the world narrows down to an exclusive population of just the two of you. Don’t talk about the kids, don’t talk about the family and don’t talk about the responsibilities.
Talk about yourselves, talk about your feelings, talk about your dreams and talk about where you’d like to be or where you’d like to go. Date nights are about reconnecting and being a couple, remember the days of when it was just the two of you grabbing a quick cup of coffee in the middle of the day or a thirty minute lunch when the only reason you were both driving fifteen minutes out of your way was just to see each other for a few minutes in the middle of the day.
That’s what the date night is about. It’s about the two of you and it doesn’t need to be an expensive dinner in a restaurant or a night in a hotel or even about the money at all. Pack some snacks and sodas and take a long drive, park out under the stars and just talk. This may not sound that exciting, but sometimes – getting to know your spouse all over again is an adventure in and of itself.
And who doesn’t love a good love story?
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