While you were dating your husband, what sort of things did you do on dates?

[MissBlacksheep]

Just curious. :)

I didn’t really see it as “dating”. But we went to the pub, cinema, restaurants, markets, museums, festivals, gigs, parties and weddings, weekend city breaks, for walks and cycle rides, day trips to beaches and places of interest…same things we did when we moved in together really.

We still 'date' now we're married, in addition to just normal going out to eat or for a day out whatever. Every so often one of us will book a restaurant or activity for a few weeks ahead and invite the other to join us on a 'date'. Silly; but works for us.

Most often it's eating out (breakfast, lunch or dinner), sometimes just a few drinks on a sunny afternoon, sometimes a picnic, the cinema, occasionally a bike ride or a long walk, we live by the coast so has been a boat trip.

We'd go for a drink then home and shag.
Or we'd go for a meal then home and shag.
Sometimes we'd go to the cinema then home and shag.
At weekends we'd go for a walk then home and shag.

Pub, out for dinner, weekends away, lots of sex

Festivals, concerts
Walks & walking challenges
Holidays home country & abroad
Short breaks away city & rural
Car boot sales, local fares, auctions
Meals with wider families/birthday/xmas celebrations
Joined a sport club together
Gardening & DIY
Some spur of the moment, some planned more long term
Try to do a variety of things

I had told him at some point early on that I was in hospital for months when I was a child. My siblings would visit talking about the things they did. They went to the circus, canoeing, blackberry picking, ice skating, jam making, built a tree house, sledging ect. They had a glorious childhood while I was in the hospital. He arranged our dates to do one of these activities. It took me longer than it should have to notice he had remembered and we were doing all the things I missed out on.

Oh he's a keeper

Meals, cinema, days out to places of interest or the seaside, ice skating.

Dates? hahahhahaha

met in a pub. Still waiting for my first date umpteen years & 2 kids later

Meals out, cinema. We both weren't interested in pubs clubs etc but we'd take turns going round each other's place to cook for each other. Day trips to places. But best of all full Sundays in bed

Our first date was to watch him perform in an am dram production (never repeated thank goodness ). Our second date was to a dinner dance - showing my age. We had a shared volunteering interest so that took up a lot of time, plus meals out, cinema, walks ... nothing very exciting and still do much the same 35+ years later !

I was 18 and a student when we met, he was 23 and living in a house share on benefits because he'd just moved to the area and was struggling to find work. So it's safe to say we had NO money.

Our 'dates' consisted of hanging out at home playing on the Wii U, Nintendo DS Pokemon Battles (we're Nintendo nerds!), cooking nice meals together, or picnics. Sometimes we went on a Sunday drive to a new village we'd never been to, stopped the car, and had a wander.

As we got more financially stable, we started going out for meals (just Prezzo, Slug and Lettuce and the like) and the aquarium, afternoon tea etc, or shopping.

By the time we go married, most dates were meals out - my favourite thing ever. Happy with that. I'm not a romantic person at all and the way to my heart is definitely my stomach.

I always associate the circus with dating, because, when we met, dh had never been to the circus and our 3rd date was going to the circus. He enjoyed it so much that we went to 3 or 4 more - different ones - over the next year.

Mostly mountain biking

We were uni students. On our first official date we went to a Chinese restaurant that was far too posh for us. I was also very stoned as had eaten hash cakes with my housemates before I went out. It went well though 😄We went clubbing on other dates, mainly with our mutual friends, so not overly romantic. Still together 25 years later though.

DH and I were both in our thirties with decent jobs; we went out to dinner often, to the movies, to the theater, and a lot of weekend getaways. As the relationship progressed, we included his children as well, so we had "family dates."

We went to the theatre, cinema, out for meals, walks, car trips, museums, steam rally, steam trains, air shows, any old thing.

Potered on his allotment.

I was a bit self conscious of not dancing and he arrangrd some dance classes for us (he was hopeless at dancing as well) we went for afternoon teas with tea dances afterwards, still do.

I couldn't cook (stayed at home and mum looked after me) he taught me to cook and bake.

I bought an old sports car, dad thought it was a wreck and I'd wasted my money, my BF bought a Haines manual and some tools and we spent a weekend fixing the brakes. He didn't do all the work, we worked on it together, gradually we sorted it out and made it mechanically sound. I still have it, he had the bodywork fixed up and resprayed for my 40th. He got himself an old rover which we also still have.