I know date night is barely a thing these days, but if you do have a way of taking a night off with your person, I would suggest doing something out of the ordinary. Dinner at a restaurant is…fine…but it’s also expensive, boozey, standard, and slightly challenging under the current conditions. How about a hike? Or making your own silent disco in a park? In our case, we recently got a sitter and took a night off to go eat a picnic dinner in a park while listening to live music and then went to an outdoor natural hot springs spa–all for less than a typical restaurant meal. When we put our relationships into a new context, it breaks us out of the usual conversation topics and patterns. This is healing for a relationship (especially coming out of months of quarantine). I also find it stretches time–I’ll never remember a random date night at a restaurant, but this sublime experience will get filed under peak life experiences in my brain.
