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Well since we live in the Fab Las Vegas we get a hotel room for the weekend about once a month. So instead of a date night we have a weekend just for us. No cell phones,e-mail, laptops, wedding by color =) its really nice and I truly fall in love with him all over again on those special weekends.
Also we do a lot together gym,church, usually when I'm on my laptop he's on his right across from me , and we also get pedicures together...Love that!

He is my best friend I swear we are attached at the hip and we love it!!

I love this post. It will be neat to see what others do in their relationship. I love the weekend away like TrulyBlessed mentioned. My FH and I should do that!

A few things that my FH and I do are leave little notes to each other. We always hid them in areas where we know the other will find it during the day. Whenever my FH travels for work, I hid about 5-7 notes throughout different areas in his luggage. We both have a memory box, and we put our notes/cards in those boxes. It's so cute to look back at them! We also go on date nights once a week. I love having good convos with him and have 1-1 time. My FH also will surprise me with flowers just because.

Great ideas shared. We like to set a date each month for a new restaurant that neither of us have been to. We go all out & get dressed up and everything. It's always our highlight. We also leave babytalk messages for each other, lol. I try to let him know at all times that Im never too busy for him.

We go hiking alot.
and we love to take pictures ( we are self proclaimed Amiture phtogs) But it is so much fun once we get out in the forest and it's Just the two of us! It melts my heart everytime! : )
Oh and the best part is once we are all tired and finally reach home there is nothing like cuddling on the couch and relaxing with him!

We designate a date night once a week. Dinner or a movie, or something special just for us. And we pledged to keep this forever.

On a regular basis, we just shut out the world and literally just spend time together. Cuddle time. Usually happens every day when we're together, even if it's for an hour.. Put away the cell phones and the computers and for me, WBC (LOL, my biggest challenge!) and we just chill together. We love movies, walks, watching sports, go for a drive somewhere relaxing, and we love cooking together.. We regularly make each other dinner and let the other one relax. We spend a lot of time together actually and I wouldn't have it any other way. Mark is totally my best friend and I love just being around him!

Sex helps. (I'm kidding... well, mostly. We do notice that if it's been a while, the overall intimacy in our relationship strains, so we give it a priority if it's been a week or so since our last rendezvous.)

It's a lot of little things for us. Greeting each other with a hug and kiss when we get home from work, when we wake up in the morning, and go to bed at night. And not just a quick one. Oh no. We slow down and enjoy it! Cuddling on the couch and watching a Netflix and making popcorn. Sharing a bottle of wine with dinner, and actually eating dinner at the table. (That only happens twice a month, maybe?) Taking the dog for a long walk and holding hands the entire time. He spends a lot of time in the office, and I spend a lot of time on my laptop in the living room a lot of days. We make a point to "visit" each other every couple hours, even if it's just to bust out a stupid dance move and make the other person laugh. (Thank GOD no one else sees us!) Or, I just climb in his lap and demand attention. Hey, whatever works! :)

I like ALL the ideas on here!

me and my fh we still go out on dates. once a month

GGGGIIIIIIRRRRLLLL!!!

I'm not going to lie. Laughter, I mean every single day! We've always done that, since our high school days! When we got back together 12 years later after high school, he was exactly the same. Funny, humerous and always turned negativety into a possitive. I'm kind of of the same page as that to, so we are very possitive in many ways.

Believe me, we experienced ups and downs too. All relationships/marriages are not always peachy~king. We've had a couple of people trying to break us up from the family, but we didn't let that happen. Better to keep you relationship/marriage on the under. Less confusion and it's no one else's business but yours. Now if it's an abusive relationship, you have to express the outsider for that and that' s important. But otherwise, don't let others interfere with your relationship.

Money is always the number one wooes in any relationship. Make sacrifices and make it happen.

Sex is sometimes a factor, make sacrifices and make it happen.

50/50 plays a major factor in our relationship, make sacrifices and make it happen.

Shut your mouth when the time is right, make sacrifices and make it happen.

Never go to bed angry, (I know it's hard), make sacrifices and make it happen. He always does that to me, if I was mad at him. (Drives me plum nuts!)

Dating weekly is VERY IMPORTANT, make sacrifices and make it happen.

Talk sexy/dirty weekly, make sacrifices and make it happen. (They like that...Even just, hey...have I told you how crazy I am about you? You sexy lamb foot!!!) LoL, they like that!

Wow, the list goes on and on....After 11 years, you get more and more creative! Sometimes, I go out to his office in the back of the house and give him surprises...(private) Hehehehe He Loves That!

Enjoy your marriage packages ladies! Life is to short!

my fh and i live 5 hrs apart so when we do get to see each other we find that those moments are the ones that we cherish the most. We try to not go to sleep angry and we usually make up before saying goodnight. when we are together its usually just sitting and talking or watching t.v. most of the time im on his macbook and he's reading but even then i know he's there for me if i need him. we have a saying together and it goes "true best friends don't always have to say a lot to know how the other is feeling." and every now and then we'll get a hotel room together. lol

We don't spend every minute together. I truly believe that the reason we are madly in love 5 years later is b/c we are also very independant of each other (we have our own friends, our own actiivites and we are on opposite schedules) so the times that we do spend together are always special. Sunday is our day (no exceptions) we go to church, brunch/lunch, shop, movies, etc.

We may also do a random night where we go grab a drink or dinner and we ALWAYS spend about 3 nights a week watching reality tv (my fave) or sports or top chef, etc together (we enjoy doing nothing together :) We are genuinely friends so I hink that helps.

We LOVE playing board games together... like battleships.....so nerdy...its part of my vows lol. We also go for walks together...its a great bonding time. We also do little things for each other... like make him lunch and put a little love note in it as a suprise.

Right now we live 4 hours apart, so when we're together (which we are this weekend!! :)) we try and have a "date" but we love just going on walks, rollerblading, watching movies, making dinner together. We love just being together and cuddling. We don't constantly have to be talking, we know how the other feels. When we are living together, I would love to be able to plan a date night once a week, or even every other week or something, just so we have a night when we know we can go do something just us. :)

I love all of the ideas here!

I had to come back :) Matt and I also write each other a ridiculous amount of notes :) when I wake up in the morning there will be a note that says "you're sexy...have a good day" "I love you" etc and I leave him notes often too. We also exchange cards just because . He leaves me "breakfast" in my car sometimes. He will go to the car and leave a muffin and a note for the day. You get the point. When I am away on business, he has been known to send flowers to the hotel room. Basically keep the romance alive by telling each other how hot, in love, etc. Love is an act not a feeling.

The other thing we do that I never had in other relationships is that we do things for each other without compaint. If I am being really lazy and we're sitting on the couch and I say, please get me my ____, he does it without question and I do the same for him (always)....

Well as you said gratefulbride everyone does have their ups and downs no one is perfect. With me and my FH we just love spending time with each other. We both work two jobs and sometimes we are not around each other but when we are we end up GLUED to each other. He is a very loving and loves to mess with me LOL. Like he likes to just lay around and mess with me, his excitement is always playing in my face. We watch a lots of tv shows together because we both like most of the same things. Oh and every Sunday we eat from our favorite restraunt, that is a must. LOL He is not a real active person, he just likes to be at home up under Me. :) I think one of the things that keeps us going is that we are very passionate to each other. Like when we get around each other we kiss and hug. My family and friends just laugh at us. We're like big kids. LOL We always tell each other I Love You. And I am like some of the other WBC Brides if we are mad at each other we don't go to bed mad. No matter who is in the wrong we just let it go because life is too short and tomorrow is not promised. So I say to everyone if something little that you fight about you be the bigger person and let it go.

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