What keeps your relationship fun?

[RoseAnna93]

We live rurally so any sort of date night has to be planned and ends up really expensive and time consuming.

We have meals out, meals indoors we cook together, go on long walks, watch movies/ series, play board games etc but looking for new ideas if anyone can suggest any? We do occasionally go to the cinema but there isn’t much else around.

I often find myself wondering what do normal couples in normal places do together? Other than eat and watch TV (in whatever form that comes in), there isn’t much to do!

Have sex 😅

Have a few nights away and see bands. And have sex 🤣🤣

Lots of sex. And trying new ways to have sex.

Build some flat pack furniture.

Great question.

Sex.

And

We live in the city in walking distance of cheap pubs, restaurants and theatres, and most of our dates are at home.

we Change up how we eat - Sometimes a picnic lunch outside or at a park, or we have a BBQ outside then sit by an outdoor fire.
Depending how old you are - we sometimes spend the evening taking turns at choosing old music videos to watch from YouTube. Some from the 70s and 80s which is our youth, but really anything.
We have nights in where we play old records and cd's and chill
I play guitar and he plays bass and sometimes we jam together
Sometimes we sit quietly reading our books together
As long as you feel intimate and close and it's fun, and/or it ends in sex (it doesn't have to!), it's a date!

Our relationship is positively unfun, because it largely involves bringing up a gigantic 8 year old who throws things and still needs nappy changes.

When we get a break we:

• sleep
• have nicer meals at home, watch a film etc
• very occasionally go to the pub/a restaurant
• even more occasionally go away for a weekend/night and make ourselves look presentable. Hot tub breaks or small city breaks
• Have ALL the sex to make up for the exhausted bedtimes the rest of the time.

Those small breaks of just being ourselves are what prevents us from killing each other/slowly dying of exhaustion. Couldn’t do without them!

We live in a similar place. We have a small concert venue near us, they have a lot of tribute bands on and we go there quite often. Its not too expensive and always good fun. We also entertain quite a lot and enjoy cooking for people together and having people to stay (they have to stay, no taxis!)

Me & my partner don’t live together we live just over an hour away, he works away Monday - Friday as a long haulage truck driver and he has 2 DD and I have 1. He has his every second weekend and I have my DD 7 days a week. My mum will watch my DD when we want a child free night. This is usually us going to dinner to somewhere we haven’t been and want to try the food, cinema or bowling. Then we get home and love to just sit with each other talk and watch tv. Usually ends up in some nice underwear and lots of sex as others have said. When we have all the kids his eldest and my daughter are 12:13 so they spend most of their time upstairs playing Roblox and messing around and the wee one stays with us until 8 then she goes to bed. We usually have a takeaway, get cosy on the sofa and watch a movie. He usually has a beer I don’t drink if the kids are there incase one of us needs to drive during the night. We always grab kisses etc when we can, also have some questionable sex in different rooms the kids can’t access, we also do have sex in bed, and we always have sex in the
mornings I don’t know why but every morning together we do it. We do have high sex drives though.

what about going for a nice late night walk in the evening somewhere quiet. Go out with a picnic.

or get this sex games like dices etc and have a fun game. Xxx

On a more constructive nite @RoseAnna93 we do all the things you mentioned above. We both have children from prev relationships so we travel at least 3 times a year as a couple. It’s fun experiencing new things together and making new memories. We both work full time but mainly as home which enables us to see each other more as we don’t live together. We also plan a suprise birthday outing for each other which is always a fun day / night out. We have inside jokes as well which keeps things light.

Having a silly laugh at things together, walking the dog together and having a good catch up and chin wag, enjoying nice experiences like lovely meals, hotels and short breaks.

I have laughed at these responses 😂 I can’t remember the last time we had a night away though so I might add that to my to do list to sort!