I got this in an email from my wife today. Here's some new ideas to try to keep the flame burning (or rekindle it) that started when you were dating her.
20 Ideas for Dating Your
Wife
by Justin
Buzzard
Men, you know your wife better than anyone else, and only you know how to best
encourage and cultivate her as a woman of God. But sometimes it helps to
build off other people's ideas in order to form your own. Here are 20
ideas that I hope will spark your thinking about how you can date your wife.
1. Attend a wedding. Sit in the back row and spend the whole time
whispering memories from your own wedding.
2. Make a list of 10 things your wife loves to do. Each new time you
take your wife on a date, do one of those 10 things as your date.
3. Take up a new hobby with your wife; do something new that you're both
excited about.
4. Do the classic date: dinner and a show. Take your wife to dinner and
to a movie she wants to watch.
5. Take a 12-month honeymoon with your wife. Relive your honeymoon
by scheduling a 24-hour getaway for every month of this year. Each month go
somewhere new with your wife.
6. Devote one hour each night for alone time with your wife. Talk about
how your days went. Joke around with each other. Cultivate your friendship.
Talk honestly about what's going on in your lives. Help each other. Encourage
each other. Pray together.
7. Mark your wife's birthday, your wedding anniversary, and Mother's Day
on your calendar every year and plan to make those days special.
8. Write a love note to your wife. Tell her all over again what she
means to you.
9. Spend an evening stargazing with your wife and talking about dreams
you have for the future.
10. Spend an evening reminiscing with your wife about all you've been
through together and all God has done and redeemed in your life together.
11. Devote the next month to studying a book of the Bible with your wife.
Take 20 minutes several nights a week to read, discuss, and pray through a
shorter book such as Ephesians or Philippians.
12. Visit your roots. Visit where your wife grew up and where you grew
up. Learn more about each other's backgrounds.
13. Hold your wife's hand often, in public and in private.
14. Tell your wife that you love her.
15. Tell your wife that Jesus loves her more than you do.
16. Set a weekly date night. Each week rotate going out and staying in
for your date night.
17. Cancel work for the day and do something special with your wife.
18. Take dancing lessons with your wife.
19. Cut something from your schedule and use that time to date your
wife.
20. Vacation with your wife without your kids, without your work, and
without your cell phone and computer.
Adapted by permission from Date Your Wife, by Justin Buzzard, ©2012, Crossway Books. Listen to Justin talk about the book today through Wednesday on FamilyLife Today®.
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