The “Us” Factor

This month, your challenge is to share how you and your husband make each and every day of your marriage special. What are your daily relationship rituals? How do you nurture the “us” factor? Tell us the big or little things that make your marriage sing like a fine-tuned violin.

Marriage is such a hard thing sometimes.  I think we get into the routine of forgetting why we get married and get into the comfort of everyday routine.  Valentine’s comes around and we feel we need to spend lots of money trying to buy gifts, or we find ourselves upset because our hubbies forget all together the whole Valentine’s day and feel no different than when we were single and not doing much of anything.

While Valentine’s day can be a focus of love and adoration, how can we make everyday special with our spouses?

Here’s some fun ideas to bring love back into your relationship that we’ve tried/used/are using:

• date night! especially if you have little ones; even if you can’t go out, have a picnic in the living room alone.  Our children go to bed at 7pm so we have our own quiet time together and can say hello w/o getting distracted.
• go for a walk – even around your own yard.  We are fortunate to have a large acreage so we can walk for a long time with the kids or alone, but even when we lived in the city, just going outside in our yard together made some pretty treasured moments.
• slip notes into his jacket pockets/wallet/pants so he can find them later… it’s amazing how many times that has brightened his mood… I sometimes do this once a year and place a bunch (like 20 of them) in all different spots .. glove compartment, lunch, pants, socks, etc… he finds this quite funny.
• find out what he really likes…  if he likes wii or golf, do it with him at least once a year!
• massages.. foot massages, head massages, hand massages… the art of touch is so very important to keep intimacy alive in your relationship!
• send him an email, twitter, or FB during the day, whatever he checks to tell him you love him.
• leave him a voice message (something sexy lol)  not only is it amusing, but it will make him smile and know that you still find him attractive!
• read together out loud! It might surprise you, but sometimes guys really like this.  We find we discuss more and he likes hearing your voice!

I could list a lot more, but I hope that will help you bring some luv’in to your house!

What do you do?

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