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52 free things to do with your partner in Date Night

One thing that works to keep relationships alive is spending quality time with others. In this day information age, it is increasingly difficult to carve the time to nurture our relationships. What with long hours of work, helping children with homework, transporting about extracurricular activities, getting dinner, cleaning and going through the routine of going to bed, what time is left?

Unless you manage the time of their relationship, other less important things public and take what little time they have. Choose a night that will be "date night" with your partner and make a game out to be as creative as you can. Try to see things you can do without spending money.

For starters, I've come up with some suggestions to help you during the next year. What follows are 52 ideas on how to spend time together without spending money creatively. Feel free to add or modify any elements of the list to their relations and circumstances.

WINTER

1. Take a drive to see Christmas decorations.
2. Play the cards — perhaps strip poker.
3. Watch a movie together.
4. Go out and have a snowball.
5. Get some finger paints and create your art own body to others as his canvas.
6. Go sledding.
7. Go ice skating.
8. Exercise or exercise together.
9. Step program of improvisation own.
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 bookstore, coffee and read for hours.

SPRING

14. Work on a remodeling project together.
15. Plan and hold a seat project work together.
16. Do the spring cleaning together — room by room. When finished, you reward for making love in the room is cleaned.
17. Wear old clothes and mud fight after some heavy rain.
18. Give a massage.
19. Play — the soccer ball, baseball, softball or Frisbee.
20. Go to a car dealership and test drive the car of your dreams.
21. Shoot basketball together.
22. They dance together.
23. Take a shower together and wash each other — everywhere.
24. Take an adult education class free together.
25. Go to a mall and a contest to see which of you can get free samples.
26. Skating or bicycling.

SUMMER

27. Build a campfire and roast marshmallows.
28. Go swimming or skinny dipping.
29. Give each other a manicure or pedicure.
30. Go to a crowded place to watch people.
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. Take in a show of fireworks.
35. Be creative and engage in sexual role plays. I know that nobody would be the night that is also exciting your partner.
36. Sit by the water somewhere.
37. Make a long strip tease each other.
38. Have a water balloon fight.
39. Sit outside and read poetry to others.

FALL

40. Take a walk together.
41. Go window shopping.
42. Incorporate food in your love making — chocolate syrup, whipped cream, fondue, strawberries — anything you and your partner enjoy.
43. Call or write to someone who has not had contact with in a while.
44. Cook something together.
45. Spend an evening talking with others. Talk about things you've done, the plans for the future people, it is important in your life or current events.
46. Take a bubble bath together.
47. Go to free movie or museum.
48. Take a drive and find the potential of older homes and property.
49. Create an imaginary story together — either orally or in writing.
50. In turn, each one being another genie in a bottle by fulfilling your partner every desire and fantasy.
51. Play in the fallen leaves.
52. Create an exciting scavenger hunt that ends in bed.

You now have 52 tips on what to do with your partner for every week of the year divided by season. Certainly you do not have to follow my suggestions. Feel free to add your own account or to repeat your favorites as often as desired.

The main point is not to see how evil you can get. The idea is to keep your relationship alive by making time together a priority. It is important to find things to do as a couple you both can enjoy. If you have a lot of different interests, then you can enter this in the spirit of take turns and each agree to happily participate in the activity chosen by the one who gets this week.

As long as making a habit of making their relationship a priority and allocating time each week for rejuvenation of the feelings that drew him first, then a good opportunity to stay and for long term.

Please do not let insidious boredom into your relationship through the back door. This is what often happens when we busy placing other things ahead of our time together. You know what I mean — the job, children, our friend in crisis, etc. There is always a concern competing for the time it has reserved to itself.

Other natural disasters, the threat of death or serious crisis, do not allow your time together to be invaded by foreign forces. Be sure to create opportunities for you to do things together without outside influence. With more than 50% of marriages today end in divorce, make this small investment in the longevity of their relationship. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. What is stopping you? Start today.

About the Author

Kim Olver has a degree in counseling, is a certified and licensed counselor. She is a certified reality therapy instructor. Kim is an expert in relationship, parenting and personal empowerment, working with individuals who want to gain more effective control of their lives and relationships. http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/FreeTeleclass.htm

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