Date nights

KimWard

Since this was mentioned in the GM thread, I am curious. Do you have regular date nights with your DH or FI? If so, do you always go out, or sometimes stay in? (I am cheap :-)). I guess I figured that we're always together, so we don't need to do this. I thought of it as an escape for when you have kids, etc. but it seems many of you do date nights. Do they make a significant difference in your relationship/marriage? Maybe we will start this...

dreamalotmp

Usually Friday nights are our defauly 'date nights.'  We HAD a plan to go to a different restaurant chosen every other week, but that only lasted a couple of months for some reason. :P   I think that date nights are a great idea honestly, but easy to ditch if you are lazy (like we are) and love Chinese delivery and Netflix. Haha.

dicer2

We schedule date nights in advance so that it gives us something to look forward to.  Yes, we'd be eating dinner together that night anyway, but it makes it a bit more special.  It gets us out of the house when we have no other plans and we'll try new places/do new things.

skybluejen

We try to make a "date night" every weekend, but some weekends we nix it for lazy nights on the couch or a night out with friends. To us, date night actually means going out on a date...dinner & a movie, ice cream and a long walk, things like that. Something cute and a bit romantic.  I think its fun to get out as a couple and act like you still need to impress each other   We liked to get all dressed up and try new restaurants in the area.  One of DH's friends has date night with his wife on every monthly wedding anniversary. They were married on the 13th of the month, so every 13th they go out on a date, no matter what day it is. I think thats a great idea if you don't like going out every single weekend!

SteelrsGrl92

FI and I usually just do diner and relax with some movies. Being were not living together yet (1.5 more months yay) we don't get to see each other a lot cause of his crazy work schedule

hey_its_jenn

I love our date nights.  Like Candice (I think you said it - if not, you're getting credit for it.) said, it gives you something to look forward to.  We normally do it on the 20th of every month, since that is the anniversary of our first date.  And if he's working or something, we do it around then.  We like the typical dinner and movie (since that was our first date) or other romantic-ish things, i.e. just taking a walk holding hands, sitting in a dark restruant in the corner and just talking for a few hours over a few drinks.  Or we'll do something random like throwing together a quick picnic and hanging out at a park.But, yeah, I love date nights!

McBridetobe

We aim to do 2 per month and try to get out of the house.  We usually don't do a fancy dinner or tons of movies.  We'll do a free outdoor movie or concert in the summer, go on a picnic, go to a winery, walk around a festival, etc.  We have an entertainment book, so we use those coupons a lot for date nights.  And we often get gift cards for restaurants or the movies from family...I have a movie GC from my birthday tha we are probably going to use tonight (uh, if we can agree on something!)I do think it is important to do fun things together and set aside time for just us.  It often works out that we end up going out with friends and staying in with each other - DH will play golf with his guy friends, I'll grab lunch or a pedi with my girl friends, so to me - we should go out and do fun things together too! 

KimWard

Cute idea about going out on each month wedding anniversary. I would like us to try more new things, but don't want to spend a lot of $, so this could be a good compromise. I will definitely mention this idea to DH. I feel like we explored a lot more last summer since we were new to the area, but haven't done as much lately.

AMK2009

I guess we have date nights, but we don't really call them date nights.  If we have nothing to do on a Friday, we usually get pizza or hoagies from somewhere and get a movie on demand.  Saturdays we always go out to dinner somewhere with sometimes a movie or shopping or something, unless of course we have something going on.  Occasionally we'll have dinner at a nice place and dress up a little, and we joke that we're going on a "date". 

colleenmclaughlin1

We go out our far share, but we both really like our movie and popcorn nights at home.  FI is a geek when it comes to all things electronic and with our TV and surround sound, it's actually a better movie watching experience than our local theatre.  But we tray to go to a nicer dinner once a month and we've vowed to go out in Boston (we live about an hour or so outside) for at least a drink once a month.  Try someting new kind of thing.

npales

We try to do it every Saturday. Usually we go out to dinner. Sometimes, we just order pizza or Chinese instead and lay around on the couch. During the week, when we are not uber busy, we also like going to the movies. AMC at the Waterfront has $5 tickets on weeknights. We were doing movies a few times each month, but we haven't gone in like 6 weeks since we got busy with wedding things.

cobrien1976

We used to have date night on Friday's or Saturday's once a month.  Dinner and a movie or dinner and Dave and Busters.  But we stopped them a few months back.  Now we do nothing...EVER!

LaFemmeRousse

We go out on a "date" at least once a week.  We don't live together yet and both have busy schedules, though, so we sometimes we need to schedule time just to see each other!Unless one of us is making a really special meal or something, we always go out for date nights.  Usually we do this during the week since our weekends are always so busy with other stuff.  We eat at restaurants a lot, go to movies occasionally, and do lots of other things like concerts, museums, cocktails, walk around a neighborhood festival, the opera, gallery openings, benefits, cooking classes, go dancing, etc.

kwynn

I'm jealous of all your ideas. We do not have date night, Kim. Actually, when we were even dating, we didn't go on too many out of the house dates!My DH hates going out to eat. (Really? Who hates that?) I love going out to restaurants; it is one of my favorite things to do. Like you, I'd like to explore our area more. But my DH has been living here for two years and has seen everything. In his defense, there isn't much. I did have a couple things I wrote down this morning that I'd like us to do together, such as do yoga together at home, start playing a new board game, etc. When his job eases up, I'd like to do more together.

themissizz

I think that date nights are important.  I know that we fall into a rut (especially after living together for the last 6 years) when we're at home and we end up just in PJ's and laying around.  I like getting dressed up and going out to dinner or to a movie.  We also do date night with Chinese or pizza and a movie on the couch.

e8jackson6

We don't necessarily plan 'date nights' but we almost always have one night of the weekend where we'll hang out - we may go to dinner or something, or just stay in and rent a movie.  And we both liked to golf, so it's fun to do a 'date day' of golfing as well.I definitely thinks it's important to have that time together.

morganphd

No date nights for us.  We go out to eat most Friday nights, but that's about it.  The closest we come to a "date night" is our Sunday season package to the Phils and our season tickets for the Walnut Street Theater.  Because those are planned in advance, we have to adjust our schedules for them. 

brivb10

We have date nights as well that are both going out, and staying home. We also do "cook together nights" - rather like down home with the neelys (for all you non-food network obsessed, it's a husband and wife cooking show where they equally split the cooking). We enjoy leaving the house to try new things (even do double and triple dates with couples) as well as pj and chinese on the couch nights (usually we make our own chinese though). This weekend our date night is Saturday, we are going out to dinner and out to the bar after with 2 other couples. :-D.

suganspyce22

With DH's crazy shifts and schedules, his days off have been Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the last two months...not the best days for going out when most people have weekends off.  Lately our little ritual has been QS&L wing/beer night, go out for ice cream, and watch a movie.  That's the day when we throw any sort of a diet out the window!

king26

Our date day is always Saturday.  During the summer time we love to yard sale so we make sure every Saturday morning we go yard saling (sp?) then we chose a place and go eat lunch together.  It's a fun time, especially when we find good stuff!  During the rest of the year, we just go our to dinner and then either watch Netflix at home or go to the movies.