For those of us on the no spend or low spent route, I thought I’d share some of my favorite things to do with hubby at home for a date night! What I’ve realized is that while it’s lovely to have a date night away, the point is that we just want to connect in a more meaningful way and have some quality time having fun together. just the two do us.
So while the boys are doing their tv time, once a week we do some of the following-
1. Play one of our favorite two player board games
Nate’s favorite is Cribbage. Mine are Dutch Blitz and Lost Cities! Have you played any of these?
Dutch Blitz you both are playing quickly at the same time. It gets very competitive, very quickly and there always ends up being raucous laughter about someone illegally doing girl on girl or boy on boy plays. This is not one of those kinds of games, but if you’ve played the game, you know 🤣
Lost Cities is such a fun two player game. It’s not a fast play like Dutch Blitz. It involves a lot of strategy. After we learned to play this game, we played it every night for months! Both these games are so addictive.
2. Share one thing you both appreciate about each other this week and take turns answering two questions from this card deck
This is my friend Sabrina’s point! I’ve been wanting to buy those physical card decks on Amazon for couples but Sabrina told me about this free app from the Gottman Institute! It has so many questions! My favorite is going on the love maps and making it like a game- read the question and try to guess what your partner will answer and they do the same for you. It’s a fun, see how well we know each other game. This is great if you or your partner are “quality time” love language people.
The “share one thing you appreciate about each other” bit is great if you or your partner are “words of affirmation” love language people. Those are my top two! These were Sabrina’s ideas. So thankful for good ideas from friends. It takes a village to raise a marriage apparently. 🤣
3. Watch a good show or movie together
I don’t know about you, but I don’t watch anything really dark without Nate, but shows or movies that keep me on the edge of my seat or are “who done it” kinda thrillers are perfect to watch with a guy to cuddle with. He much prefers it to my regular teen movie or romantic comedy pick. 🤣
These four picks are the best shows we’ve watched together.