Romantic Gestures
Showing your affection can come in a myriad of ways...here are some good ones. For more ideas, be sure to visit our section on Valentine activities.
Quickies:
- Wash the car together
- Have a tickle fight
- Keep all your cards, letters and movie ticket stubs
- Go for a run
- Make each other ornaments for Christmas
- Take a joy ride and listen to your favorite songs together
- Send eCards on a weekly basis
- Read the same book and discuss
- Have a dance party, play dance music and move together
Cupid's Favorite Tips :
- Take an old shoebox. Put your loved one's favorite candy and love poems inside, and cover it all with rose peddles. Cover it with his/her favorite cartoons or pictures of you two together.
- On a large piece of poster board, copy down a love poem or letter to your sweet. Then cut it into large puzzle pieces. Send your honey a letter every week, and include one puzzle piece with each letter. He will be checking the mailbox daily.
- Bring your partner to a romantic place where only the two of you go.
- Go camping and watch the sunrise. Be sure to make a wish outloud.
- Spend a few hours together communicating without words... let your eyes and body communicate your thoughts and feelings for you.
- Leave little notes around the house for him/her to find throughout the day.
- Spell out "I Love You" in glow-in-the-dark stars upon her bedroom ceiling.
- Write "I Love You" in the mirror after stepping out of the shower. Next time she showers, she'll see the message you left!
- Write a list: "101 Reasons Why You're the Greatest." Write each reason on a separate square of paper. Wrap them in a fancy gift box.
- Bake a heart cake. One layer in a square pan and the other in a round pan. Cut the round one in half, place the two halves on two different sides of the square layer, and you have created a heart. Frost and decorate as desired.
- Take turns reading romantic poetry or an erotic novel to each other.
- Make a time capsule. Write down your private thoughts and dreams in letters to each other. Then put them in a box, along with a special bottle of wine, perhaps, or funny souvenirs, and seal it with sealing wax. Don't open it until your 50th wedding anniversary.
- Dab your handkerchiefs with each other's favorite fragrance for an intimate, sweet-smelling reminder of each other.
- Use Rain-X anti-fog (used to keep car windows from fogging up) on a cotton swab to write a message that will mysteriously appear on the bathroom mirror while your sweetheart is showering.
- Stand outside her window with a stereo and sing her a love song. It really doesn't matter how bad your voice is or what the neighbors think.
- Put a red rose on her pillow where she'll see it when she goes to bed or first thing in the morning.
- Make a cd of your favorite songs and maybe a little message from you at the end, and give it to her to listen to in the car or before she goes to sleep.
- Make her soup. Make sure she doesn't know you're preparing a meal that will make her feel all warm inside.
