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Every stage of life comes with new challenges and obstacles. These things affect our everyday life routines, and our marriage and date night routines as well. Just when we feel like we’ve settled into a good routine with date night, something comes along and knocks us off our feet. When that happens, we can choose to get back up and find a new way to date each other. Or we can let that thing keep us down and give up on date night for the season.
When you set date night and your marriage aside, it might not seem like a big deal, but long term there will be consequences. Putting your marriage on the back burner leads to a weakened connection. You’ll drift apart and although you might still be great partners in some areas of life, you’ll be more like roommates than husband and wife. Regular date night is just one of the things you can do to keep your marriage strong throughout every stage of life.
Adjusting Your Date Night Routine in New Stages of Life
Date ideas for newlyweds
My hope is that this post will give you a few new ideas to keep your date nights exciting! The early years of your marriage are fun but can be an adjustment. Keep the spark alive in your relationship by making date night a priority. And continue to find ways to connect on a regular basis. The first years of your marriage are exciting! They provide great opportunities to learn more about each other and develop a culture for your little family. These date ideas are fun and will help you figure out what’s important to you as a couple and for your future family. Click here to read the full post.
Date ideas for new parents
My goal is to help every couple make their marriage a priority throughout every stage of life. Even those early parenting days when it feels like you don’t even have a second to take care of yourself. Let alone time to focus on your marriage. Making our romantic relationship a priority is something that has helped us connect as a couple. And we’ve been able to be more intentional together in our parenting over the last few years. I hope that the date night ideas in this post will provide you with opportunities to connect and keep your relationship as husband and wife alive. So that you don’t lose it to your roles as partners in parenting from the beginning. Click here to read the full post.
Date ideas for parents of young kids
I hope that the ideas in this post will help you find more time for date night and quality time as a couple. Your children are watching you and looking to you for an example of what a healthy marriage looks like. Show them that your marriage is important to you by making date night and time together a priority on a regular basis. They might push back a bit at the moment. But by maintaining your boundaries, the foundation of your family will stay strong. And your kids will remember the care that you gave your marriage as they grow older. Click here to read the full post.
Date ideas for parents of teenagers
We have quite a few years until we have teenagers at home. But I know that the date night habits that we have now are going to carry us through those years of our marriage. There might be more alone time at home to enjoy while our kids are off having their own fun. And there will be more things that take us out of the house than we have now with our toddlers. I don’t have personal experience with this stage in life, except from the perspective of being a teenager myself at one point in time. But I hope that the ideas in this post will help you make more time for each other in the middle of this busy and potentially stressful stage of life! Click here to read the full post.
Date ideas for empty nesters
I hope the date night ideas in this post will help in your journey to rediscover and redefine who you are as a couple. And determine what your life together will look like now that you don’t have as much on your plates. I also hope they will encourage you to spend time together. And not fill your days with other activities because you don’t know how to be alone together that much anymore. Life can still take priority over your spouse if you let it. Like every other stage in life, you have to be intentional and make a daily effort to put each other first! Click here to read the full post.
Over the years we’ve been married, our date night routine changed a lot. No matter what stage of life we find ourselves in, we never regret making time for each other. Date night allows us to step away from our adult responsibilities and get back to the root of our relationship. We get to have fun together, get to know each other, and date again. Don’t make your marriage wait “until this season has passed” to make time for it again.