Go to a Playground!

Playgrounds aren’t just for little kids, you know. For this date, all you need is your spouse and transportation to your favorite playground in your area! In the evening most kids are at home, so playgrounds are open and free! This is a chance for you and your spouse to get familiar with the kid in each of you and play some of those old playground games you grew up on, and maybe make up some of your own. Just enjoy the outdoors and the fun that you can make with even the simplest of sceneries!

Some suggestions may be games like lava monster, tag, monkey bars, etc., just allow yourself to have fun and take a break from the week that you have had to enjoy some good old clean fun J

Don’t Forget to Reconnect!

Playgrounds automatically make us think of little kids. For this date, amongst or after all of the playground fun, take time to sit and talk to each other about families. Whether you have a family, want a family, don’t want a family, etc., take time to share some of your deeper feelings and desires with your spouse, to help create a common ground on which to build your future, and to bring you closer as a couple as you learn to confide in each other these important aspects of your life.

Living Room Campout

Ever get the camping blues? Or want to go camping but the weather doesn’t cooperate? Well, I do! This date takes care of those camping needs, no matter what it looks like outside! All you have to do is grab your tent (not necessary if you don’t want) but definitely your sleeping bags, pillows, blankets, and lantern, and set up camp right in your living room!

To keep up the camping festivities, you can also turn on the stove burner and roast some marshmallows, and heat up some hot cocoa to enjoy around your (pretend) fire. It may seem silly, but it can be great fun to camp, even inside your own home, to feel like you are getting away from all of your worries and just enjoying the little vacation you have created for yourselves as a couple.

Don’t Forget to Reconnect!

Everyone loves stories told around the campfire, right? Well, after you and your spouse get your marshmallows roasted and your hot chocolate heated up and ready, sit around your little make believe campfire and think of the story of how you met and fell in love. It can be so fun to look back and relive the feelings and events that led up to your dating, engagement, and now marriage. Each of you should share your version of the story and just appreciate how far you have come, and how much you have grown together as a couple!

Throwback Night: 80’s

Take it back a few decades and relive the 80’s at Numbers nightclub. Every Friday night the DJ mixes things up with some classic throwback tunes of the 80’s. In between dancing away to your favorite old tunes, relive your childhood by sharing some of your favorite memories with your spouse.

300 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77006
http://www.numbersnightcluub.com/index.php?page=nightly

Daily R&R Tip (Relationship Reconnection)

Remember your spouse is not the same person today as they were in grade school; don’t become upset with them for actions made in the past. Think of it like this: Everything that has happened has shaped your spouse into the person they are today. 

Make-Your-Own Year in Review

No, its not new years, but reviewing the year you have had so far can be a really rewarding experience! All you will need is your spouse and a pen and paper. You will each work together to compile a list of things you want to be included on your review, such as your greatest accomplishment this year, favorite memory, best meal, favorite date, and so on. The challenge is to keep this activity positive; focus on the good things that happened and be willing to let go of the bad.

Don’t Forget to Reconnect!

When composing this activity for a date night, it can be easy to get distracted by the negative and hard things that happened during the year. But there is always next year and ways to make the struggles easier. To reconnect during this date night, after you had composed your year in review, each of you make 3 goals that you have for the next year, and then also make a plan for HOW you are going to accomplish these goals. Keep each other motivated to work towards your goals and try to stick to your plan to make it happen!

Book Club For Two

Book clubs can get a really poor reputation for being long and boring. They can also have a reputation for attracting older ladies who read lots of romance novels. Well, this date night is much different than both of those things, so you are safe!

For this date night you will want to go to your local public library. Once there, look around at some books together and grab a couple that interest you each. Then work together and choose one book that you would each like to read together. Read as far into the book as you would like, and then pose your own “book club” and discussion as a couple.

This date allows you to share interest in something together, and grow together in a different and educational way!

Don’t Forget to Reconnect!

For this activity, since we are already at a library, each of you should find your favorite childhood book, either picture or chapter book. Then you can talk about why this book was your favorite and what memories you have associated with it. This will just be another fun fact you can learn about your spouse to appreciate them even more.

Houston Water Wall

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The Houston Water Wall is open daily from 8:00 AM- 9:00 PM and it is located on 2800 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX 77056. This waterfall is mesmerizing and tranquil. Make a picnic dinner and eat out on the grass while watching the waterfall. This attraction has a tendency to be a bit crowded, so try going towards the end of the day, when there are less people. Grab the camera and take some selfies with your spouse in front of the Water Wall.

Relationship Reconnection:

Making good memories together is a very important part of your marriage. On your way home from the park, stop at the store, buy a picture frame, and print out the best picture of your two in front of the Water Wall. Before placing it in the frame, take turns writing down on the back of the photo, the date, and how much you love each other. Years down the road you will be able to take the picture out and read what you wrote.

Iron Chef Date Night

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Instead of going out to eat at a restaurant, try cooking something different and special at home! There is a company called, Blue Apron and they send you a box of ingredients and a recipe to make a delicious home cooked meals out of. Buy two of their boxes and have an Iron Chef competition between the two of you. Take the recipe cards and put them in a bowel and draw the cards at random, whichever card you choose, is the meal that you are in charge of making. Then, after the meals are cooked, divide each in half and try both of the meals. Don’t forget to dub someone the winner. The cost of the meals is $59.94, for three meals which serves two people. You can choose which meals you want off their website, and you can cancel at any time. You have the choice between six different meals per week, so if you don’t find something that you’d like for this week, check out what’s on the menu the next few weeks. Spending time together and having a little healthy competition is a great way to spend your date night.