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The Perfect Night Begins at Home with Food and Nobody Else–Except Your Significant Other

It doesn’t matter what sort of couple you’re part of–whether it is a new marriage, you have three kids or no kids, boyfriend and girlfriend or a gay relationship–you are probably both too preoccupied with your daily routine to just commit sufficient time for each other. We always have more things to do than we have available time. You may well wonder whether the world has always been this way or whether it is only in these modern times.

Unfortunately, one of the first things to get postponed “until there is enough time” is intimate time with our significant others. We fool ourselves into believing that we’ll soon find more time once this project at work is completed. Or we pray that we won’t be so busy once little Sarah’s soccer season is over. We soon find ourselves pondering if our relationship has become lifeless. Perhaps, we think, this happens to all couples after they have been paired for some period of time. Even if it does, that is no excuse. No person, no project at work, no “to do” list at your home should become more important to you than your partner–at least not every time that a choice has to be made.

Here are a few suggestions for a perfect, unique, special evening staying at your own home.

 

Set an evening to ship the kids off to Grandma’s (or a neighbor’s house)

Unplug the television

Choose some CDs that you each enjoy

Unplug or turn off all telephones, computers and any other contraptions that could possibly interrupt you

Order a chef prepared, gourmet meal from an Internet store–one that needs virtually no effort on your part but stills tastes as if it’s from a four star restaurant

Purchase a bottle of fine wine or, better yet, a stimulating mixture of crisp fruit juices

Park the cars a block away or in the garage with the door down

Close all drapes

Turn off the lights

Light mildly scented candles

Eat slowly

Take time to talk about one another in hushed tones

Actually attend to what your partner says

End your dining experience with a small piece of fluffy New York cheesecake and a glass of dessert wine or cup of freshly brewed tea

Worry about the diet some other day

Don’t do the dishes

Extinguish some of the candles

Don’t go to the bedroom

See if you can think of any activity that relaxes you–in a stimulating way

Oh, yeah. Talk some more

 

Repeat next month. You will find that you are still too busy to suit you, but you won’t mind as much if you take some quality time for yourselves at home.

 

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