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Comment by D.J. on March 10, 2012 at 9:37pm

Robert:

That sounds like an awesome idea. I'll keep it in mind when I get hitched.

Comment by Robert Jenson on March 10, 2012 at 3:08pm

One of the funnest date nights my wife and I do is called "Naked Movie Night".  We go to the store and buy a movie and stuff for dinner.  When we get home I make dinner while my wife relaxes and does her thing.  We have a romantic dinner and then go into the family room to watch the movie.  There we have blankets or sheets.  If we are both feeling up to it we lose the clothes and cuddle under the blankets while watching the movie.  It is very nice to be close and relax after a stressful week.  If "things" happen or not, it is a great way to reconnect.  (We don't have kids so we don't have to worry about little ones walking in.)

Comment by Steve M on May 2, 2011 at 4:03pm

I'm excited about tonight. My wife and I are going to see the Russian Ballet - "Sleeping Beauty".  We have never seen a ballet and are surprised that they chose to come to our fair town in the desert.

Most of you guys are going to say, "ugh!"

I'll tell you more after tonight.

 

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Comment by Douglas Garthwaite on March 24, 2011 at 8:02pm

(This is just a stream of conscious about the subject so bare with my rambling and as a prior disclaimer, I am but a mere 20 year old still in the field of battle)

As a general note about the world of Romance. I think a LOT of the "lack of romance" is that (speaking from my own motives) guys think the things that might be romantic are corny or silly and think that they'd be too childish to try, I know I have these incredible ideas that I'm quite frankly rather frozen to try just because at the moment I can't drive her there (lack of a car at the moment) so having her drive us to the area just seems foolish.

When you're a kid (in my context I'm going with teenager) you are still relatively fresh in the world and don't have anything hindering you. As you go through life and either have women harden your heart or you marry a woman and you stagnate because you no longer feel you have to pursue them that part of your mind atrophies.

Just do something silly, don't let age or maturity effect things. If you used to write "I love you" in flower petals, hell do it again.

As a final note I think the main thing is to just put forth the effort, I think that it's a win win, A-she'll appreciate the gesture from you and B-you'll be exercising that muscle putting you well on your way to being a Don Juan all over again champ.

Comment by Jacob M Lee on December 30, 2010 at 5:23pm

Quick Tip:

When you go out, don't dress to meet your own minimum "dressed up" standards, society's imposed standards, or any of that.

 

Dress to make the other women jealous of your lady.

There's tons of guys out there where too-big shirts, mis-matched clothes, boxy suits. Don't be that guy. Make that guy's girl wish he was you.

Comment by Jacob M Lee on November 21, 2010 at 1:25pm

fake it till you make it.

Do things that you know would be romantic, even if right now they feel trite or silly or what have you. And while doing them, actively try and get into the romantic mindset. It can take a while, but you'll get back to it.

I'm going through a similar thing: having been a hopeless romantic of a teenager, then realizing how that was making me weak, I focused on being 'ok by myself', which is important. But I feel like I don't do the silly, romantic things anymore. And now that I'm in a relationship with the love of my life, I need to, especially because she's not very good at it either. So, I do the sweet silly things for her, and it's been working.

Comment by D. Salandy on November 21, 2010 at 7:14am

Hey there,
I'm very glad this blog exists. I feel as if there's something's wrong with me. I used to be a very romantic fella in my youth. I don't know what has happened in the past twenty years, but somehow I'm not as romantic. Not even a little bit. And my marriage is suffering because of it. What the heck happened? This used to be soooo easy for me. Now, I'm out of ideas. HEEEELP!

Comment by William W. How on September 16, 2010 at 3:56pm

From the first friend:

this weekend, we're going to a festival downtown and we're gonna be in a speed chess challenge. then we're going to opera in the outfield. it's opening day for opera season, and they livecast the performance on the big screen at [the] baseball stadium. you can set up a blanket and picnic in the outfield, lay under the stars and watch the opera.

Comment by William W. How on September 16, 2010 at 3:54pm

My friend (or her boyfriend) continues to have all our mutual female friends swooning, except one cute redhead:

last night we went to the hispanic heritage festival at the [performing arts] center... free ozomatli concert, mexican food and cervezas, and fireworks over the river. i'm a sucker for fireworks...

Another girl commented:
Last night we were talking about the whole watching planes take off over the river deal, and we agreed it would be pretty cool.
And yeah, fireworks are fantastic. I really want to go to one of the [outdoor performing arts center] performances that have fireworks at the end. I think that would be awesome. Then again, there's something about just lying on a grassy hill in the dark, watching fireworks, that's pretty tough to beat.

The first girl noted that alcohol considerably boosts the romance factor.

Comment by William W. How on September 14, 2010 at 12:47pm

A college friend just sent this, bragging:
so the new BF is taking me out tonight to watch the planes take off out over the potomac... putting the top down, popping open a bottle of wine, and then when the planes are done, we're gonna watch episodes of arrested development on the laptop. so romantic...

And the next day:
successful night...including a viewing of "waiting for guffman" and a surprise presentation of delicious tamales!! man, this dude's on a ROLL!!

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