| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| Keeping it together |
Anyone who's been married for more than a few years should check out this article from the New York Times' "Well" blog. "Simply spending quality time together is probably not enough to prevent a relationship from getting stale," writes Tara Parker-Pope. "Using laboratory studies, real-world experiments and even brain-scan data, scientists can now offer long-married couples a simple prescription for rekindling the romantic love that brought them together in the first place. The solution? Reinventing date night."
In other words, if you spend every Saturday night going to dinner & a movie, your marriage is likely to slide slowly into dullness. You need to shake things up and do something new and exciting! "For couples who have a reasonably good but slightly dull relationship, novelty may help reignite old sparks."
This makes a lot of sense to me, and I suppose it could help explain why Joe and I have been happily married for the better part of a decade. We've climbed pyramids in Mexico and ridden a ferry through Norwegian fjords; we've attended silent film festivals and hard rock concerts; we've been to the circus and Cirque du Soleil. We've volunteered together; we've enjoyed meals at high-end restaurants and humble burger joints; we've taken road trips over mountains and through deserts. We've gone to see everything from Shakespeare plays to "The Simpsons Movie."
So the question is, what does the modern couple-on-the-go do when it's done everything? Here are a few things we've never done; we may never want to do them, but hey, the option's there!
- NASCAR
- Anything "singalong"/"sing-it-yourself"
- Applied to be on "The Amazing Race"
- Scrapbooking
- Zorbing
- Attended a costume party or masquerade
- Gone on a cruise
If you've been with your partner for a long time, what interesting activities have you pursued together? |
posted by 125records @ 3:11 PM  |
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We hardly ever do anything interesting, but I swear..the secret to our success is separate checking accounts!
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what interesting activities have you pursued together?
Parenting.
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I keep pushing to apply to The Amazing Race, but my wife insists that that would be a one way ride to a divorce.
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We hardly ever do anything interesting, but I swear..the secret to our success is separate checking accounts!