REAL Marriage

This Saturday, October 17, 2009 is Sweetest Day.  This is the time to go on that date your sweetie has been hinting about but you have not quite made it to yet.  Figure out where your sweetie wants to go most on a date and make it happen.

If for some reason you can not make that date happen take your sweetie out for sweets.

A REAL date a week builds a REAL marriage.

It is Columbus Day.  Give your spouse a REAL love note celebrating the day and letting him or her know how happy you are that you discovered each other.  You can decorate with pictures of old sailing ships.

REAL Love Notes are deposits in the love bank.

This Saturday, October 10, 2009, is Universal Music Day.  Plan a music date.  Go hear your favorite type of music or be adventurous and listen to a different style of music.

A REAL date a week builds a REAL marriage.

October is a time of corn and hay (I am saving the pumpkins for closer to Halloween) so use these items to give your spouse a REAL Love Note.  You can:

• decorate the outside of your note with pictures or stickers of corn, hay, scarecrows, etc. and write your message on the inside.
• write your note on the husk of a piece of real corn.
• on a package of Corn Nuts write the following, “I know it’s corny but I’m nuts about you,” and then give it to your spouse.  Make sure the Corn Nuts are their favorite flavor.

Take some time to give your spouse a REAL Love Note and see what happens.

REAL Love Notes are deposits in the love bank.

“The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.”  Shana Alexander

October is Apple Month and National Go On A Field Trip Month.  Take your spouse on a field trip to a farmers market or farm for fresh hot apple cider. Spend some time walking in cool autumn air while enjoying the changing colors of the trees. For added fun go at night and catch a hayride.

A REAL date a week builds a REAL marriage.