Write "you're beautiful" or "you're handsome" on a post it note and leave it on the bathroom mirror.
Mow "I LOVE YOU" in the lawn, or draw hearts in your backyard with fertilizer.
Do you remember how much fun it was to make a tent as a kid? Why not create one with your significant other? Set up chairs and get a few sheets and make a tent together!
If you are a green thumb, grow white roses, if not, buy some (preferably 8) find a container for each one and fill them with water (and don't forget the plant food) afterwards, put a fair amount of food coloring in each one, making one red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, black, and leave one white. The water (and food coloring) should be absorbed into the petals and you will be left with a bouquet of roses, every color of the rainbow, to give to your lover.
Take a date or lover to a woodsy place and walk barefooted hand in hand up a stream
Take her to the most romantic restaurant in town.
Give her a box of hearts or romantic stationery or notes.
Get a custom license plate made for your lover, something unique and meaningful to the both of you, or something like "4EVERU" or "MY LUV".
Take up a team sport together.
Leave him a note in his pants pocket, wallet, wrapping his money, briefcase, coat, car, CD case, lunch bag, or planner.
Prepare a bubble bath for her by candlelight with incense and wine.
Get about 15 helium balloons. Before filling them with helium put a note in each one telling your partner what you love about them. Put the balloons in their car and tape a safety pin and note that says "to get in you have to pop each one and read each note." This will make their day!
Decorate their car with "Just Married XX Years" every year for your anniversary.
Complain less, compliment more.
Go to a coffee shop and play a game of checkers or chess.
Grab some blankets and your favorite dinner. Drive until you find the perfect spot. Have a little bit of good food, cuddling, and conversation. And you can bet they will be wishing on the shooting stars for you.
Buy scratch off lottery tickets until you come upon a winner, give it to them saying "I'm glad I picked a winner in you!"
Place pictures of your dreams (houses, cars, vacation spots, etc.) on the refrigerator or inside cabinets.
Give your mate 11 red roses with a white one in the middle with a card that reads "Thanks for standing out in my life."
Just Lie in bed all day TOGETHER, feeding each other, massage's, rub downs, and all out playing.
Play in a tree house together.
Share a special moment you two shared a long time ago every month like the first movie you two ever saw together.
Put a letter in the inside of the shower saying, "no words in the world can explain the way I feel about you... these 3 are the simplest..." Take 5 roses and tape the words I love (heart shaped) you (u) to the inside shower wall.
Surprise her one day when she expects you to be at work with a surprise picnic lunch at a local park.
Go to a local high school sport game.
Go to a toy store and buy body crayons that you can draw on each other with. Fill the tub with warm water, have your partner join you. Draw sayings and pictures on each other and see where it takes you. This can be very fun!!
Memorize a romantic poem and recite it to them over dinner at an elegant restaurant.
Attach a valentine to the steering wheel of your lover's car, or hide one under the sun visor.
Go out to an open field, start dancing with your loved one, tell them to imagine your song playing even though there is no music.
Send your man/woman and bag of candy hearts, with a note saying this is how many times you stole my heart.
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