#3: Long Live Date Night!

This is an easy one to ignore or let slip away. It’s sort of like doing daily devotions…if you don’t include it in your schedule ahead of time, it will never happen.

Making a special night for each other, every week or every other week is so important. Even if you stay in the house, this time is meant for you both to totally focus on each other. No blackberries, phone calls, text messages, commericals, or friends to get in the way.

Whatever you end up doing for date night, make sure you hold hands, kiss often, and snuggle up. This makes it different from any other night together.

Do things you don’t normally do: Go ahead – get the appetizer. Take a walk (hand-in-hand). Dance to your favorite song. Play a video game.

Feed the romance any way you can because the reality is that most days you will be too busy to focus at all on the other person. We have become (me especially) multi-tasking addicts. Mark and I will go entire days without having a “real” conversation – but it’s those date nights where we had 3 hours of intimate conversation that linger in my mind.