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Dating Your Spouse: Why It’s Important and My Top Tips
Who else has always heard that it’s important to continue dating your spouse throughout marriage? I honestly think it might be one of my favorite pieces of marriage advice. On our “date days” or after a designated “date night”, I always feel closer and like our relationship is stronger than ever. Dating your spouse doesn’t only apply once married though. Throughout a relationship, we should always be consciously dating our significant other. To date someone implies romantic interest. Dating consists of performing social activities. It provides opportunities to continually connect and reconnect. So why does is matter if you are “dating” your spouse (or significant other) or not? Research literally…
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The Best Board Games for Two Players: Our Favorites
The first time Brian and I played a board game together was on our second date. We had gone on a nature hike around the local lake, continued to chat over frozen yogurt, then went back to his apartment because we weren’t ready for the date to end. We spent the evening talking and laughing, and then Brian suggested we play a board game. I thought we would play Monopoly, or Life, or Clue. But Brian suggested a newer, deck building game called Clank!. I had never played a deck building game, so I was up for the challenge. And my life changed forever (for the better obviously). Clank! was…