We do enjoy running together and with the pooch (well, they run on ahead and then run back and forth to find me – it’s kinda like exercising with a pair of duracell bunnies), and we also do lots of coastal weekends away and stay in caravans etc so we’re very lucky – but one thing we have always stuck to, once a month at the very least we have a date night, we go to a restaurant we haven’t tried before and try to meet their, I love it, it’s always a special and flirty evening that ends with us legless dancing round the kitchen xx

@Charlotte – I WANT A PIANO!!

Cooking together is our ‘thing’ – I can’t wait until we have a house big enough to sit around an actual table #notenoughroomtoswingacat. Our vegetable garden is also a ‘together’ thing, but we didn’t sow anything this year because of the wedding/weather (It looks like an overgrown meadow at the moment!!)

Signing off now, before sound any more like someone out of The Good Life

xx

Things we like doing together: watching box sets (we’re currently re-watching all the Matt Smith episodes of Doctor Who), eating out, going to the cinema, and we both like going to zoos and wildlife parks. And just little things like playing a board game or cuddling up in front of the TV.

I think the important thing, though, is just to acknowledge your relationship. Don’t forget to say nice things to each other, kiss each other, ask how the other person’s day went, etc. I read somewhere that 8% of married couples kiss each other less than once a week. I find that shocking, but I can see how you could drift into complacency.

What strategy shall I take to make him think the idea was his? OR I could be like that woman who wears to much make up in The Help who hires Minnie without her husband knowing. Pretend I’m a ‘good wife’

x