Stay-at-home date Ideas

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 Over time, everyone changes and evolves. And, if you don't take the time to consistently talk and get to know each other and how you've changed, it can have a negative effect on your relationship. Afterall... if you don’t really know someone, how can you truly love them? The Gottmans (marriage/relationship experts) have discovered that "From knowledge springs not only love, but the fortitude to weather marital storms. Couples who have detailed love maps of each other’s worlds are far better prepared to cope with stressful events and conflict. Partners who are already in the habit of keeping up to date and are intently aware of what each other are feeling and thinking aren’t as thrown off course by changes and stress in each other’s lives. " 

Here are some ideas to help you update your love map! 

Get some takeout from a few different joints... and get creative! Try to see how many different types of food you can try. How about some egg rolls, tacos, sushi, and mango sticky rice! Have a culinary trip around the world at home.  Especially right now, it's more important than ever to support our local restaurants. Here's a list of all the places open right now for curbside pickup or even delivery in some cases. 

There is a great opportunity to be more hands-on with your partner during an at-home date night! Why not take the time to learn to give (and therefore GET) a great massage! Checkout this great online resource where you can get a free  "How to Give a Great Massage At Home" guide as well as sign-up for a few other courses to make amazing at-home massages part of your date-night repertoire. 

Been dying to get to the  Guggenheim Museum in New York?  What about the  

Musée d’Orsay in Paris?  Well, even with travel being more difficult right now, you still can! Check out these awesome online tours of some of the worlds best museums. 

Find what's in your fridge and pantry and see what you can make! Select something from each of these categories and get creative in the kitchen!

• 1 meat
• 1 fruit
• 1 vegetable
• 1 starch
• 1 grain or noodle
• 1 preservative, canned or boxed item  

Get creative with some homemade ice cream! This is a fun date activity to do over and over again, because you are developing a skill, creating new flavor combinations, and figuring out how to make perfect ice cream... and every time it can be different. There are lots of ice-cream makers out there... here are some good ones to get you started. 

While tapes and CDs are a thing of the past these days, the sentiment behind them isn't gone. Sit down and create a Spotify playlist with tunes that make you think about each other, remember romantic moments, or want to dance.  Then... dance. Or makeout. Or whatever.... wink wink.

If you're like us and have already watched The Office a million times, sometimes you need to watch something new! Which is why I was so excited to learn that there a lot of Broadway shows available online! 

Nothing will bring you closer together than talking about your dreams for the future together. So, sit down with some poster board and start dreaming! Need help getting started? Here are some tips to creating a dream board.