52 Date Ideas

Keep Your Marriage Alive

If you want to keep your marriage alive, you must never stop dating. Here are 52 fun, fabulous, and inexpensive date ideas, one for each week. This gives you an entire year's worth! Now there's no excuse!

Take a walk through a park holding hands and talking about the things you see. Remember to swing on the swings.
Walk through a mall or shopping area. Don't forget to hold hands.
Create a picnic in your den floor, if it's winter make it in front of the fireplace. Turn off the TV, turn on some music, and light the candles
Watch a movie and have popcorn. Turn off the lights and turn the volume up just like at the theaters.
Bake a cake, cookies, or brownies together. Get messy and have fun.
Set up a treasure hunt. Get in the car and let your sweetheart figure out your clues. Visit some places you know he/she will like.
If there is a drive-in in your area, pack some snacks and a blanket and get cozy in the back seat.
Take a bubble bath together and have conversation about your favorite childhood memories.
Place a blanket in the back yard one night, cuddle, and count your lucky stars and discuss whatever comes up.
Wake your spouse up before sunrise one morning and watch the sun come up over your favorite morning breakfast.
Take a walk on a nature trail.
Play games together…rummy, charades, puzzles, or a board game can last for hours.
Go to a thrift store and buy your spouse an outfit to wear, and agree beforehand that you will wear whatever is purchased. Have fun with it.
Create a movie together. Plan your plot before hand.
Have a photo shoot of each other. Change outfits a couple of times.
Volunteer at a food bank together.
Plan a spa day at home. Take turns pampering each other with hand and foot massages. Soft music and candles a must.
Visit your local high school's football or basketball game.
Visit a cemetery to find the oldest date on a headstone that you can find.
Visit open houses in new neighborhoods. The model homes are fun to go through.
Visit a furniture store and discuss your likes and dislikes.
Have a picnic in a beautiful setting.
Look through photo albums together.
Do an arts and craft event together. Make candles, water paint on a pad while at a park, try to draw a picture of each other.
Stay in bed all day together watching your favorite TV shows.
Take a tour of garage sales in the ritzy areas.
Have a theme night together. Dress for the occasion, add the food, and a movie.
Have a mystery progressive night out. Start at 1 restaurant for an appetizer, go to another restaurant for the entree, and third place for dessert.
Play in the rain together.
Head to a batting cage and hit some balls together.
Take a test drive in your dream car.
Exercise together.
Make a CD or Playlist on the computer of your favorite love songs together.
Watch Monday Night Football together. For dinner tailgate in your kitchen.
Go bowling.
Take a class together. Check out the local community center, library, recreation center, or college.
Have a shaving cream battle, outside of course.
Rent a bicycle built for 2 and ride together.
Go for go cart rides.
Visit an arcade.
Throw a prom in your living room. Get prom gowns and suits at the local thrift store. Have the room decorated and music playing through the TV or CD player. Dance the night away.
Bake some sweets and take them to the fire department and police department.
Just for fun get a psychic reading together.
Sightsee in a major city near you or in a nearby small town that you've never been to.
Visit a comedy club.
Go back to your roots that brought you together. Where were you when you met? What activity were you doing when you met? Go there or do something of the same sorts.
Visit the beach, day or night.
Play billiards.
Go for a game of mini golf.
Go to a concert or a local pub with live music.
Visit a children's hospital.
Visit an animal shelter.

2 Responses to 52 Date Ideas

Bc

Just for fun get a psychic reading together.

this is not of God how is this a christian website

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- Rhonda Neely
  
  Thanks BC for visiting my site and viewing the date ideas. By visiting my site I’m curious if you’re having marital problems and seeking help? There are 51 other date ideas you might like and approve of to help you in your life at this time. The words “Just for fun” are the key in this and nowhere do I recommend anyone getting a psychic reading for a Christian life changing reason, simply something for kicks and giggles. May you find focus on all the good things in people and in your life! Filling your mind with positive thoughts will replace the negative thoughts. Blessings and love to you!
  
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I grew up daddy’s little girl.

Thought I was a princess to all men, not realizing I was just daddy’s princess.

I had an extreme sense of entitlement.

Like many of the mistakes my clients have shared with me, I too had to discover marriage wasn’t all about me. I too had to learn the painful lessons about “give and take”.

Growing Lessons I’ve learned from Divorce:

My first marriage was a 15 year relationship and this is where I learned that letting go of who I am wasn’t a healthy experience. Not for me, nor for my marriage.

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After dating my first husband 7 years I decided to take a new tactic the second time around and married after only 4 weeks of knowing each other. Heck, it worked for my parents who after dating only 4 weeks before marrying had a happy, fun, loving, healthy marriage that lasted 62 years when my dad passed away. Why couldn’t it work the same for me, right?

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I realized early on in my life that I’m a Freak for Love.

Just staying together isn’t what I’m about, it’s staying together where you’re not only committed but also connected. Connected with values, give and take, fun, and respect, and that’s what I teach.

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In a physically abusive relationship, I’m not your gal.

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Spiritual

Want more fun in the bedroom

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Are smart enough to know that change is necessary

Open to guidance and new ideas

Ready to let go of stuff that no longer serves them

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Open to my honesty about their marriage and can handle a word or two from the potty mouth

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I love motorcycles

I love hot cars (not stolen ones silly)

I’m a freak for love

I love inspirational and uplifting quotes

I’m a positive thinker

I love to find the good in people

I’m tenacious and don’t give up easily

I love to have fun; can be either fun in the sun, or dancing in the rain.

I try to make at least one person’s life better each day

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I’m SO not perfect (and that’s a strength!)

I follow the rules so I can be very black and white

I’m trustworthy

I’m not a skeptic

I believe everything happens and it’s always a blessing

I make friends for a lifetime

I have a tattoo and a body piercing

I feel sexy in the little black dress as well as in the black leathers and a doo-rag

I believe in losing inhibitions in a marriage are fun and important to growth

I’m a southern girl through and through

I’m a sucker for chivalry

I believe there are people who are so rich all they have is money

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