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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 info age, it is getting growingly 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 essential things will crowd in and take what precious little time you do have. Pick a night that will be “date night” with your collaborator and make a game out of being as originative as you may be. Try to see how a heap of things you may do without spending money. To get you started, I’ve come up with galore suggestions to help you for the next year. What follows are 52 ideas for how to spend originative time together without spending money. Feel free to add or alter any of the items on the list to suit your peculiar kinship and circumstances. WINTER 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 a lot of finger paints and give rise to 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 give rise to 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 14. Work on a rebuilding project together. 15. Plan and finish 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 a lot of completely wet rain. 18. Give each other a massage. 19. Play catch—football, baseball, softball or Frisbee. 20. Go to a car merchandiser 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 may get the most free samples. 26. Go rollerblading or bike riding. SUMMER 27. Build a campfire and roast marshmallows. 28. Go swimming or skinny dipping. 29. Give each other a manicure or pedicure. 30. Go someplace crowded to humans 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 originative and engage in sexual role plays. Be any person you’d like to be for the night who is also stimulating 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 40. Go for a drive together. 41. Go window shopping. 42. Incorporate feed into your love making—chocolate syrup, whipped cream, fondue, strawberries—anything you and your collaborator enjoy. 43. Call or write to an individual you haven’t had contact with in a while. 44. Cook something together. 45. Spend an evening just talking with each other. Talk in regards to the things you have done, plans you have for the future, important humans 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 imaginative story together—either orally or in written form. 50. Take turns being each other’s genie in a bottle by fulfilling your partner’s each wish and fantasy. 51. Play in the fallen leaves. 52. Create an stimulating scavenger hunt that ends in your bed. Now you have 52 suggestions for things to do with your collaborator for each 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 oftentimes as you’d like. The main point is not to see how kinky you may get. The idea is to keep your kinship alive by making time together a priority. It is essential that you find things to do as a couple that you may both enjoy. If you have vastly dissimilar interests then you may enter this with the spirit of taking turns and each agree to happily participate in the action chosen by the one whose turn it is that week. As long as you make a habit of making your kinship a priority and allocating time each week for rejuvenation of the sensations that attracted you in the initial place, then you stand a good chance of staying together for the long haul. Please don’t let insidious boredom enter into your kinship through the back door. This is what often happens when we are busy placing other things in front of our time for each other. You recognise 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 isolated for each other. Other than natural disasters, threat of death or major crises, do not grant your time together to be invaded by any outside forces. Make sure to give rise to prospects for you to do things together without outside influence. With more than 50% of today’s marriages ending in divorce, make this little investment in the longevity of your relationship. You have not one thing to lose and everything to gain. What’s stopping you? Start today.
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