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30 Days to a More Romantic Marriage
Keeping the home fires burning might take more than a little spark. The comfort that comes from years of married life is wonderful, but it also means igniting the old spark might require dredging your relationship in love-filled lighter fluid!
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"Following the first two weeks of these little surprises, our love and appreciation for each other increased."
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When my husband and I were dating, he brought me a rose every week. He promised to bring me one each week for the rest of our lives and continued to do so for the first few months of our marriage. Then, he decided it was more meaningful to do the dishes. So, after two months of marriage, the romance went down the drain--so to speak.
Twelve years and three children later, we have found that it takes a conscious effort to keep the love alive. In his book 1001 Ways to be Romantic, Gregory J. P. Godek says that romance is about the little things. It's much more about the small gestures—the little ways of making daily life with your love a bit more special—than it is about the extravagant, expensive gestures.
His ideas include doing something romantic for your spouse every day for thirty days. I decided to give this idea a try. It was fun surprising my husband and seeing his reactions. Here are some of the creative, inexpensive ways I showed my love for him and the results I saw:
1. First, I made a card and put it under the windshield wiper of his car. He thanked me as soon as he got home from work.
2. The next day, I left a treat and note on the seat of his car. After I did this, my husband said he was going to have to keep an eye on me.
3. On the third day, I sent a card in the mail. When it arrived, I stuck it in with the rest of his letters. Upon finding the card I sent him, my husband said that all these little surprises made him feel special.
4. I put a romantic movie from the library and some licorice on his pillow on the fourth day. After the kids went to bed, we watched the movie together, but he fell asleep half way through it.
5. The following morning, I wrote "I Love You" and drew a big heart on the bathroom mirror in red lipstick. When my husband discovered the message I wrote on the mirror, he showed it to our children. Later that day, my three year old son scribbled on the mirror with red fingernail polish. I guess he wanted to show me how much he loved me too. (Note: "Goo" cleanser removes lipstick.)
6. I taped red paper hearts all over his windshield and wrote titles and lines of love songs or poems that I liked and wrote, "I love you" in several different languages on different hearts. My husband caught me taping the hearts on his windshield, but later I could hear him laughing as he read them.
7. Right before my husband left on a trip, I taped some of our favorite love songs and stuck the tape in his car stereo. Later, he called to thank me.
8. While he was away, I called his voice mail to sing lines of love songs like, "I just called to say I love you" and "Have I told you lately that I love you?" It made me feel closer to him and he said he laughed when he got the messages.
9. The night after he returned, I read him some poetry by Robert and Elizabeth Browning.
10. The next day we started reading a book on improving marriage relationships.
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By Alice L. Beesley LDSLiving Magazine Jan/Feb Issue
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