Date Your Mate Month
Everyone knows that long-term relationships require intention and a certain amount of work for couples to be able to stay healthy and happy for the duration.
Date Your Mate Month brings a little reminder to couples that they might need to make more of an effort to meet each other’s needs and keep everything going smoothly for the long haul!
How to Celebrate Date Your Mate Month
Considering ideas for how to get involved with Date Your Mate Month? The options are almost endless, really, but perhaps begin with some of these ideas:
Go Out on a Date
It’s easy to let the little things in life take over and become a barrier for spending intentional time alone with a partner.
Whether it’s a spontaneous outing that allows a couple to go on a let’s-see-what-happens adventure, or a well-planned date that includes various favorite activities or places – or both – Date Your Mate Month is just the time to make it happen.
Stay in for a Date Night
For some couples, staying in for a date can be much better than going out!
This might be related to keeping within a certain budget or struggling with the anxiety that can come from choosing a restaurant or making reservations, there are plenty of things that can be done for Date Your Mate Month that happen at home.
Have a picnic in the backyard, or even on the living room floor. Try reading a book out loud to each other, playing a new board game or some other quiet activity that builds into the relationship in a simple way.
Try a New Activity Together
Reintroduce the excitement from earlier in the relationship by trying a new activity together, which can foster intimacy.
Try new activities together such as going ice skating, trying rock climbing or doing some other activity for the first time together.
New activities engage different parts of the brain and can encourage creativity and bring back the spark for Date Your Mate Month!
Get Some Conversation Cards
For couples who have been together so long they think there is nothing new to say, try picking up a deck of conversation cards for couples.
A wide range of these can be found online or at a local bookstore or game store, which help to promote conversation with creativity and imagination by asking unexpected questions and answering them with each other.
Other events that are related to Date Your Mate Month include Kiss Your Mate Day in late April, Creative Romance Month in February and National Spouses Day.
History of Date Your Mate Month
Date Your Mate Month was founded by a grassroots association of women and men who were hoping to encourage couples to work harder at reigniting the spark of romance which brought them together in the first place.
It seems to have been first celebrated in 1993, but the popularity of the internet in the early 2000s brought more traction to the growing event.
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