The media paints life after marriage as dull, but we married people know better. Want to keep your romance fiery and fresh after the wedding cake has been eaten and the thank-you notes delivered? Here are some great ways to date your spouse! The first step to dating your spouse is commitment. After all, commitment is what marriage is about! So commit to do something fun with each other regularly.
Men, you need to come up with your own ideas for how to date your wife. You know your wife better than anyone else. Only you know how to best cultivate and guard the woman God has given you. Attend a wedding. Sit in the back row and spend the whole time whispering memories from your own wedding. Make a list of ten things your wife loves to do. Each new time you take your wife on a date, do one of those ten things as your date.
In fact, studies show that just two years into marriage, couples report that their relationship has become stale and boring. Enter this brilliant idea on how to go on a real first date with your spouse in a video from blogger Kristina Kuzmic. They love how it provides a creative way to get to know each other better, even after their years of marriage. After all, as life goes on, our schedules get busier and busier.
They just can't seem to have a night out that doesn't involve talking about the kids, household tasks, scheduling logistics, and, worse yet, complaints about one another. Still, most women and men alike, long to recapture the pre-marriage, mid-courtship "date-night feeling" when their conversation was both comfortable and captivating, their mutual attraction was electric and palatable, and the night was filled with the promise of deepening their intimacy and providing a delightful escape from their daily routines and stressors. This longing to recreate date-night intimacy could be related to a primal urge for survival. There is a well-documented connection between the support that comes from a well-functioning intimate relationship and the personal well-being of the relationship partners. Intimate relationships buffer partners from the negative outcomes associated with the stress due to life events like pregnancy, birth of a child, job loss, illness, retirement and, of course, routine daily stressors, as well.