Every few years I remind couples what they can do on their dates or activities to add spice to their relationships. Here is a list of ideas that can really bring excitement in your relationship.

• Take a trip to Elizabeth Island, Exuma.
• Snuggle up and play your most romantic CD's or DVDs.
• Rent a romantic video and hold each other close as you view it.
• Have a candlelight dinner with a delicious menu planned by the two of you. And be sure to use you best cutlery and finest china. You may order the meal from a caterer, but enjoy the meal by candlelight, and even in sexy nightwear.
• Spend an evening experimenting with different types of loving touches.
• Watch a sunset together and take a walk together in the moonlight.
• Ladies, take the initiative in lovemaking. Call your spouse on the job today and begin preparing for the special night.
• Go on a second honeymoon.
• Spend the night in a hotel.
• Read love poems to each other.
• Purchase sexy lingerie. Have a private lingerie fashion show just for the two of you.
• Enjoy a picnic together at the beach.
• Make love in the living room (windows closed, children not around).
• Go window-shopping after the store areas have closed and hold hands as you walk along.
• Go on top of the Water Tower to kiss.
• Share a milkshake on a hot day.
• Go out for pizza and have fun.
• Watch the dog show on TV.
• Purchase matching outfits.
• Go to the perfume shop and learn about the various fragrances, then pick out one for each other.
• Frolic in bed when the weather is too bad to go out to work.
• Go to Club Med, San Salvador.
• Redecorate your home together.
• Hug a lot and kiss a lot.
• Exercise together.
• Take a long bubble bath together.
• Give each other massages.
• Celebrate "being especially sweet day" on the first day of every month or quarter by being especially sweet to your spouse.
• Enjoy dinner at an elegant restaurant.
• Invite your in-laws over for a special day and entertain them like royalty.
• Walk the dog together.
• Have an outrageous meal day. See who can come up with the most outrageous but tasty concoction.
• Shower together.
• Leave a love note under the pillow.
• Dress up and rent a limo to take you around for an evening.
• Spend the evening dancing together in your bedroom to your favorite romantic music.
• Engage in a pillow fight.
• Have your portrait painted.
• Practice for a kissing competition.
• Invent something.
• Plan a campfire for couples.
• Plan a lunch time dinner date on a busy day.
• Fall in love all over again.
• Bake bread together.
• Build a tree house for the two of you and hug and kiss in it.
• Go to see the sunrise.
• Have an evening for sharing stale jokes.
• Prepare a written account of your first year together. See how far you have come and how much you have grown together.
• Read a love story together.
• Go sailing to Balmoral Island.
• Kiss every time you part and every time you meet again.
• Give each other romantic pet names and use them often.
• Say "I love you" often and mean it.
• Go bird watching.
• Accept each other without trying to remake each other.
• Eat your meals together as often as you can.
• Enjoy nature together.
• Prepare a book of love coupons and give coupons to each other for redemption whenever your spouse wishes.
• Have a evening sharing your thoughts and feelings with each other.
• Sleep naked together.

o Barrington H. Brennen is a mar-riage and family therapist and board certified clinical psychotherapist, U.S.A. Send your questions or comments to barringtonbrennen@gmail.com; write to P.O. Box CB-13019, Nassau, The Bahamas; or visit www.soencouragement.org; or call 242-327-1980, or 242-477- 4002.

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