Okay, I stumbled upon all these articles. I won't make you read this one, but it was regarding Paul Simon's song about 50 ways to leave a lover, and how there are most certainly 50 ways to love your lover. I'm going to get creative. I wonder if I should include things already being done. This is for me, by the way, but feel free to jump on any of them.
1. Make out. Often.
2. if you're near one another, touch. We used to do this when we were dating, and after being married with kids for a few years, it's easy to let it go.
3. stop what you're doing and watch them. Ever feel someone watching you? Remember how that felt? (as long as it wasn't the creep stalker guy that you couldn't shake, of course)
4. Share a really, really good meal together, with no kids, no tv, no radio.
5. Have a pillow fight.
6. Rearrange the bedroom/buy a new comforter/take the bedframe down (haha!!!)- do something fun for the bedroom.
7. Have sex somewhere other than the bathroom. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! DID YOU HEAR THAT!!! i meant bedroom. :D
8. Hold hands while driving.
9. Write a love note and stick it in their pocket to find later.
10. Play cards instead of watching a movie or TV.
11. Get one of those cheesy question books and go for it. Find out something you didn't know about them.
12. Play hide and seek.
13. Go out in the backyard and lay on a blanket and watch the sky.
14. Find a new place to go. Museum, food, park, whatever.
15. Write your love story and give it to him. Do it up fancy with a cover to keep for the kids/grandkids/great grandkids
16. Plan a surprise party.
17. Get him a day off without him knowing about it. Hole up at home, or go hit the road.
18. Have pictures done.
19. sit quietly under a willow tree.
20. Light some candles, turn off the lights, put on some music and dance.
21. take a class together.
22. Commit to getting a babysitter every couple of weeks, once a month at the VERY LEAST and go do something as unmom and undad as possible.
23. Find a cause to support together.
24. 50 is a lot to come up with.
25. So i'm cheating on a couple of these by filling up spaces with something else.
26. Go park somewhere and make out.
27. You know how there are some things that you say "no" to? Say yes, just once.
28. Every now and then, no matter how tired we might be, let's go out of our way and do that thing that they have been asking us to do that we keep not doing.
29. Notice what he's doing around the house or for the kids and say THANK YOU.
30. Praise them to someone when they are not around.
31. Go pull weeds together.
32. Get out of the routine after work- go look at Christmas lights, go collect the reddest leaves possible, go pick flowers, go fish at the neighbor fishing hole, eat dinner in the backyard.
33. Where did you used to go when you were dating? Go there again. (We used to climb the ski jump. I wonder if i still have it in me to make it up that thing...)
34. Paint your nails red. (I dunno...Cullen loves that and i never do it because I don't have time for upkeeping that shit! But I should just do it.)
35. Why not have sex on the kitchen table once?
36. kiss goodnight for at least 20 seconds. A real one, not a peck.
37. renew those vows, in private or however, every 6 months or so.
38. Take a vacation without the kid(s), at least once a year, more if possible.
39. Take lunch together.
40. make a list of dreams and make them happen one at a time. the trick is to actually DO THEM.
41. Go to a beach.
42. Acknowledge something that bothers you IMMEDIATELY. Think of what you want them to hear and say it that way. Or write it, if you're really irritated. That way you can edit before delivering it.
43. Is this one stupid? Write his parents a love letter, thanking them for the gift they have given you. (I happen to love my inlaws but lots of people don't)
44. Put gas in the car if it's low, for them.
45. FINE- go ahead and clean the whole car for them inside and out.
46. Do it in a little white tshirt and shorts and when you get caught doing your good deed, spray him with water and LET HIM SPRAY YOU BACK.
47. Strip poker!
48. What's his favorite snack? Buy it.
49. "Pretend" that he is merely another form of you, and treat him with all the love and respect that you/he deserve.
50. Go ahead and say that dirty little thing in your head.
Whew. That wasn't really as hard as I thought it was going to be. I'm going to print it out now, and hang it up in our room. Then we'll do another after we cross all these off. 10 times. :) Got some?
What a great list!
ReplyDeleteYou've covered just about everything!
When you are at a party or have people over and you catch his eye, give him a playful wink.
Similarly, when they are people over, slip into the bathroom or pantry and give him a big, real kiss.
Wear sexy lingerie, let him catch a glimpse of it early so that he will be thinking about it for hours until the time you two can finally be alone.
Make the other person breakfast-in-bed.
Massage the other person's feet. Especially after a long tiring day.
Go skinny dipping.
Let them hear you compliment them in front of somebody else.
OHHHH I love it! Breakfast in bed! And the foot rub! Good stuff, Nik! I love this list!
ReplyDeleteI love this list too except I can't wink!
ReplyDeleteAnd Nicki - I'm never eating at your dining room table or using your bathroom again. J/K!
HAHAHA! FWIW, I haven't done the table thing yet. It sounded like a good idea, but I'm not sure I'm that fun. I'll work on it. You've sat on our couch plenty of times though. ;) hah!!!
ReplyDelete(at least you also know I steam clean those suckers every few months. heheheh)
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