If there is a game you are good at but your mate is not, sit down and show them how to play. Teaching them the secrets you know can make the playing much more fun!
Turn their birthday into a birthday month.
Record some romantic music on a tape or leave a romantic CD in the car playing for your partner.
Go to the beach together and watch the sunset in each other's arms.
Write a song for your partner and go to a recording studio and have it put on a CD for her. Make up a CD cover with pictures of you together and give it to her! This avoids the awkwardness of singing to her in person, but you'll still receive the same reaction and rewards.
Fill a tub with hot water and oils and anything else you can think of, carry your lover and set them down in the tub and give them a balloon filled with rose petals and a pin, tell them to pop it and when they do rose petals will go everywhere.
When love is great, there is no need for words! For even in silence love is heard! Love her more than yourself!
When you know you won't be home when they get off work etc. Leave a note on the door saying "I tried leaving kisses on the door, but most of them fell off" and leave Hershey kisses on the floor.
Give her a daily calendar with something you wrote on each day so she can read a message from you each day.
On or before Christmas, buy a nutcracker for your loved one. Scoop out the inside of a large walnut, put the ring inside and super glue it back together. When you give her the nutcracker, give her the walnut with the ring inside and ask her to try it out. When she cracks the walnut, out comes the ring!
Make a bulletin board and post date mementos or reminders on it where you both can see it every day.
Give her a foot massage with her favorite lotion.
While your lover is sleeping- place Hershey's kisses along the stairs leading to the bathroom, and fill their shower with rose petals. Leave a note that says, "Since I've kissed the ground you've walked on and showered you with roses, will you be my Valentine?"
Look at photo albums together, bring back the memory when you two first met or your first kiss.
Build a "cushion fort" and ask your mate to join you.
Take your loved one out for a picnic lunch or dinner out by a bluff and a waterfall.
Post a pad of notes around the house with romantic messages on it for them.
Wake up every morning fifteen minutes early to cuddle each other.
Have a picture of yourself made into a puzzle and send one piece a week until the puzzle is complete.
Put 2 tickets to his/her favorite concert. Put the card where they will find it. Inside the card you can write "We can make our own music after the show."
Using alphabet cookie cutters, write a message using home made cookies or jello.
Write your initials in cement or write "I love NAME".
Give your love a lightswitch: You turn me onto life!
If you are a green thumb, grow white roses, if not, buy some (preferably 8) find a container for each one and fill them with water (and don't forget the plant food) afterwards, put a fair amount of food coloring in each one, making one red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, black, and leave one white. The water (and food coloring) should be absorbed into the petals and you will be left with a bouquet of roses, every color of the rainbow, to give to your lover.
Write your partner a thank you note thanking them for all the practical things they do to make your life better (laundry, respecting you, making great love,taking you to a movie, etc.) and tape it to the orange juice in the fridge or to the lightswitch. Use a thank you note for added elegance.
Tell each other what's on your mind 150 of the time. Never hold back. Whether it's little things or something huge. It will bring you a lot closer.
What's more romantic than to look into your lover's beautiful eyes while you both try to draw each other!? The result is a surprise because whether or not you have art talent, the drawing will be special because it is done by you!
Play in a tree house together.
Massages are good! Offer them, you don't have to be professional. It's the effort that counts.
Buy her lingerie even if you're not sure what she likes, just be sure to get her sizes right.
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