One day rent a hotel suite. Then send your partner a dozen of white and red rose to his/her job, (take one rose out of the dozen), telling him/her how much you care for her or him. Also tell him/her that it was one rose missing out of the bunch and if he or she would like to locate the rose. He or she can find you and the rose at the suite. List the hotel and the room number and when he or she comes and ask for the rose tell he or she that the one rose that was missing was you.
Take time to think about each other, then sit together and write a letter to each other. Write from the heart, tell them what you appreciate about them and what you really like about them. Once you start writing it will just flow. Then exchange letters and read them together. This will bring you closer together...writing is easier than speaking sometimes.
Have fun with playdough or clay or paint a picture together. Visit an art museum and sketch your favorite nudes or lovers. If the statues and paintings could talk, imagine what would they be thinking/saying? Draw, paint or sculpt your sweetie or his/her favorite body part.
Some Popsicle sticks have a riddle, or something written on them. You can get one specially made, and have the big question written on the Popsicle stick. That way, when she gets done eating the Popsicle, she will see the question. You may even want to use their name. Have flowers ready!
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.
Don't go to bed angry. Settle it before you sleep
Play strip monopoly.
Take a piece of paper, cut it into small pieces, and write "I love you" on each piece. Take your significant other's magazines and place a piece in between each page so while they read it, they will see reminders of your love on each page.
Never insist on 'winning' an argument. If someone needs to feel they have 'won', the relationship loses!
Stay in on a Saturday, get up early, read the paper together, eat what's ever in your cabinets (soup and sandwiches is a personal favorite!). Go out for a nice walk, stop at a store or two and enjoy the rest of the evening together. It's quality time spent, and you can dream about your later years together!
If you go on a business trip, give her a flower for every day you will be gone.
Go to an outlet strip mall together.
Get about 15 helium balloons. Before filling them with helium put a note in each one telling your partner what you love about them. Put the balloons in their car and tape a safety pin and note that says "to get in you have to pop each one and read each note." This will make their day!
Thumb wrestle while watching TV.
Have a plane write the proposal in the sky.
Glue all emails or letters from your love into a blank book.
Be more interested in hearing about your partner's day and life then you are telling about your own. I have been dating someone for a year and 3 months and it hasn't failed me yet!
My friend recently arranged a surprise for our 1st date. The big night was the night before he had to move away. As he drove to our destination he began telling me how he chose it. He recalled me mentioning my love of reading. He said that he could tell by the sound of my voice and the way my eyes lit up when I spoke, that I really took great pleasure in it. He relayed his desire to pick a place for the evening that would allow us an opportunity to talk and spend quality time together as well as a place that would remind me of him while he was away. We pulled into the parking lot of a local coffee shop book store where he proceeds to buy me two wonderful hardback books to occupy my time while he is away. We chatted the night away over coffee and then he sent me off in search of my gifts… Needless to say, the night did not backfire! I thought it was a truly memorable, original, romantic, and caring gesture straight from his heart! I’ll never forget it or him…
Get dressed up like your going to a ball. Then go to a local fast food place followed by a trip to a bowling alley, pool hall or another place you wouldn't normally dress up for.
If you don't already have one, steal a key from her somehow. Then, one day where she's not going to be home for awhile...sneak in and clean her house. She will love you.
Purchase or photocopy 2 copies of "Romeo and Juliet", - the balcony scene. Place one copy on an elevated platform (stairs, window, etc.)with Juliet's lines highlighted and play the part of Romeo, leave notes directing her to the window and sneak outside/under the stairs to suddenly start when she appears. Bonus: memorize the lines, added bonus - dress the part.
Eat at a patio diner.
Buy magnetic letters, write a new love message on your refrigerator every morning.
Write your sweetie a note saying 'I love you' in every language you can think of.
Go berry picking.
Buy a flower for her as much as you can, one by one, finding different types and colors and place them in different spots that they might not expect! Soon they will have flowers consuming their house. Plus it is always a bonus to put one in the car seat before you pick her up, so when you open the door her eyes glow!
Bring your significant other three roses and tell them: "this one is for my mind, which is always thinking of you. This one is for my heart, which will always love you. And this one is for my soul, which will always be yours."
My boyfriend took me camping for the very first time. He thought of everything - the flannel sheets and pillow cases, romantic wines, romantic campfires, the works. He ensured I had all the creature comforts. He showed me, a city girl, the stars and his affection. This was the weekend I told him I loved him for the first time.
Make a list of "50 reasons" why you're glad you're with your mate.
The day of your date send a message to the person that says you can't make it. About an hour after your date was suppose to begin place a message in a bottle, a single red rose and a map that has a place to meet on the doorstep ring the doorbell and run to your car and go to the place you want to meet. Their have a dinner and radio ready. eat and then dance the night away.
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