In celebration of Date Your Mate Month, Here are my 5 tips for mate dating that will keep your relationship alive and well.
1. Create a Date Night Every Week. Select a day that you know will not be pre-empted by the NBA playoffs or a mahjong game and stick to it.
2. Take Turns on Creating Your Date. Alternate each week as to who selects the outing. Get creative. It can be as simple as dining in by candlelight, to finding events to attend such as comedy shows, movies, plays, or concerts.
3. Pre-Date Night Foreplay. Show some enthusiasm and excitement the day before your date. Leave a love note on your pillow or send a sexy text message in anticipation of your special night. Take out the lingerie that has been collecting dust in your bureau.
4. Memorialize It. Be your own love historian. Bring a camera or Flip video along and take photos of you and your sweetheart at different locations. Upload them to your photo sharing account on Flickr® from Yahoo! or on Google's Picasa™ Web Albums. Upload your favorite shot onto your desktop for quick viewing.
5. Leave the Board Room Behind. If you have had a bad day at work or a presentation with a tight deadline, keep these conversations away from your date night. There's plenty of time to talk about work outside of your sacred evening. Romance requires nurturing and consistency.
The simple ritual of creating a date night can help you become as excited as you did during the first three months of dating, and can last for decades, if you want it to.
Julie Spira is the author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online. Visit her at CyberDatingExpert.com
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If your marriage is falling apart (and ALL eventually do) your best bet is to learn to emotinally detach from the partner in order to save the marriage. At fhu.com I learned a meditation exercise that helped me get above the promblem. My husband was beating me. If I gave him sex, he would beat me more. As soon as I learned how not to resond to him and give him back to hiumself he started to get better. That's the only reason we still together 40 yrs. later.
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