Babysit for a friend or family member with your significant other.
Have an indoor picnic. Put a blanket on floor and eat all the yummy things your partner loves.
Build a dam in a creek together.
Create a book of your feelings, emotions, and thoughts after each of your dates with your partner, give it to them after a year.
If you've written each other love notes, dig them up and read them together. Discuss how you felt when you wrote them, and when you read them.
When my husband proposed he did it on his birthday. He said he was sick of opening presents and told me to open one. When i removed the tissue paper the ring box was at the bottom. I opened the box, he hit one knee and asked me to marry him! It was very romantic!
Find one of the brightest stars in the sky and then name it and call it "our star" and it will always be there even if your partner isn't around, as a reminder.
Send her a letter. Tell her how much she means to you and mail it from your house to hers even if you live five minutes away. A phone call may be much easier, but this letter will mean so much more to her than you can ever imagine.
Make your mate breakfast in bed.
Surprise your loved one with gifts of things they crave (chocolate, gourmet coffee, nuts, ice cream, etc) when they least expect it.
Leave her little things on her care, on her pillow. Things such as a single flower, a note, etc.. Something to show her that you were thinking about her
Eat one plate of spaghetti together.
If she stays at home, give her a call about 10:00 in the morning to tell her you love her.
Go to the mall, sit, and watch people go by. Make up stories for each of them on where they are at in life.
Go to an outlet strip mall together.
Buy as many Hershey's Kisses as you can afford. Take out the little slip of paper and put them all in a small jewelry box. Buy a crystal or glass vase. Fill the vase with the Kisses. Wrap the jewelry box and give it to her. Tell her each slip is worth one real kiss, then give her the vase full of Hershey's Kisses.
An egg hunt on Easter would be a fun way to propose. When you put the egg with the ring somewhere make sure its in a place where nobody else will find it. Or let some people in on the secret so nobody else will ruin the surprise. Then just make sure she joins in on the hunt, and be prepared to pop the question when she finds the ring!
Massages are good! Offer them, you don't have to be professional. It's the effort that counts.
Turn off all electric lights in the house. Surround tub with scented candles. Play Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing.
Plan an overnight at a Bed & Breakfast & surprise her with it.
Give your mate a nut and bolt: You hold me together when I'm down!
For newlyweds, create a "time capsule" recording. On the tape, reminisce about your first year together. Record a popular song and read the day's front-page headlines. Watch the video every year to look back on your first year.
Give a candle or figure in the shape of a globe, to state "When we're together, I want to give you the world"
Read poetry to her. Write poetry about her.
Dedicate a song to her on the radio.
Have your date make a list of 20 questions about herself that you wouldn't know. You do the same. Exchange papers and answer as many as you can, then proceed to ask them the remaining questions taking turns. It is 20 questions backwards.
My fiancee took me to a beautiful park, under the guise that we were meeting friends for a barbecue. He got a cooler out of the trunk and we walked to a quiet shade tree. He spread out a blanket and eventually told me that nobody else was coming. He fed me grapes, cheeses, chocolates, wine.
Men: always be yourself and no one else to your woman. So you'll find someone you truly love.
Personally deliver a hand picked bouquet to their work.
Make some heart shape sugar cookies and decorate them. (you could even buy them) then leave them on your mates passenger seat in their car, so when they go to work it's knowing how much they are loved.
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