how do you combat/stop boredom in a long-term relationship

[peacefuloptimist]

Just wanted some advice about how to keep a long term relationship alive. How do you keep your lives together from becoming monotonous and repetitive especially once kids are involved? I love my DH but miss the romance of our early days together when everything was new. Now I feel like everything is so predictable and with ds just 6 months I don't know how to recreate that spontaneity and passion that was there at the start. Pleas help.

Get a baby sitter & put on your glad rags & go out & make it a rule that you won't talk about your DS. It will help.

Marking a place as I am having the exact same problem

Me too, would love to know the answer for this!

Wine, candles and long baths together (talking is easier under these circumstances) - don't wait for DH; if you're romantic he'll follow your lead.

Read erotic fiction.

Oh and, according to my DH, spontaneous blow jobs are the key to a lasting marriage!

Play a "resistance" game where you have to try and seduce your partner, while trying to resist their advances. Have a boundary which is off-limits e.g. kissing, touching somewhere that underwear usually covers, and the first one to break the boundary has to give the other oral sex for a solid ten minutes