Four Date Activities that will Strength your Marriage
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Remembering that dating stage? Well it isn’t over just because you are wearing a ring. Dating should continue into marriage, you should still be dating your spouse. Save my marriage is an exclamation that stems from many reasons but one of them might be because you stopped pursuing your marriage. People change and grow. Consistent dates with your spouse will help so that you grow and change together as a couple and not growing apart as separate individuals. Take turns planning for them and decide a time to do it weekly. Here are 4 ideas you can try as a couple to get this tradition going.
Date Idea #1: Simply get tickets to a near by show or movie and then go out for ice cream to discuss what you thought about it. The actual going to the movie together isn’t what will bond you closer together as a couple. The discussing it at the end or the event will. You get an opportunity to share feelings, ideas and inspirations on something you both experienced. Listen to each other talk and comment on each other’s ideas. This will strengthen your communication skills.
Date Idea #2: Go for a walk and take a picnic. It is an opportunity to get caught up on the happenings of the week, discuss future plans and relive old memories. Communicating is key a date so activities like this opens up valuable time to just talk while taking part in another activity.
Date Idea #3: Go and volunteer some where for the evening. It will relieve stress and you will get to see your partner giving kindness to those around you. Working together for the good of someone else is a real bonding experience. It gives you an experience to talk about and relive in the future. It also brings a feeling of peace and joy that you both are sharing in.
Date Idea #4: Go feed the ducks at the duck pond. This activity is low key, inexpensive and stress free. It doesn’t have to last all evening on those weeks that are just chalk full already. But this time together will give you an uninterrupted time to talk to one another, get to know your spouses new ideas and what is weighing on them. Just be open with one another and enjoy nature together.
The main point of these activities is to open a time to communicate with each other and to do the activity together, uninterrupted by the craziness of life. Take the time to strengthen your marriage even if it means cutting something else from your weekly schedule. Save your marriage by making it a priority.
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