You know the importance of date night for married couples. Maybe you’ve looked through a list of date night ideas for busy couples. Then you find yourself sitting across from your husband with nothing new or interesting to say. The date night is a dud. What is the point of this anyway? Today Kristen Milner will share One Idea that will spin limitless date night topics for married couples!
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Limitless Date Night Topics for Married Couples from One Activity
Before we go too far let’s step back and make sure everyone is on the same page.
- Is date night important for couples?
Yes. Date night – when done well – allows you to bond, have fun and remember why you starting doing like together in the first place!
- What is date night for married couples and how do you do it right?
Dating is key to a strong marriage foundation. It should be a fun time without kids where you forget the burdens of life and connect as a couple again. WHY is date night important? Because we are to work at everything with all our heart.
Colossians 3:23 Whaterver you do, do your work heartiily, as for the Lord rather than for men
- What are the biggest date night mistakes?
- Being a mom instead of a wife
- Lack of self-care
- Allowing the stresses of the day to spoil the fun
Now you’ve made a fun plan and got yourself mentally prepared, but what do you talk about?
As adults with mounting responsibilities, we need date night topics for married couples to not have an awkward silence.
Is date night important for couples? Yes. Date night - when done well - allows you to bond, have fun and remember why you starting doing like together in the first place! Share on XYou want to get lost in conversation with your spouse but how?
What do you do when you have small children, a limited budget, and need new date night topics as a married couple? Allow me (Kristen Milner) to introduce The Finer Things Club exclusively for married couples.
To make it work, you have to go all out with it. Commit. Make a plan. Stick with it.
Hebrews 10:24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love…
One Idea to spin limitless date night topics
How to Start The Finer Things Club:
- Choose a book
- Something you and your spouse will both enjoy
- Something you wouldn’t ordinarily read
- Preferably a fiction book because it opens up many date night topics for married couples
- Choose a date
- One night a week that you and your husband are both free
- Make a commitment to keep that night available for the next few months.
- Set the time
- Once you’ve chosen a night of the week you can commit to, set a time that works.
- For us, 8 pm worked great. This allowed us to put the kids to bed and gave us a few minutes to get things set up.
The finer details – date night ideas for busy couples
Now that you have a plan for what you will read and when you will connect let’s dig into the finer details. Searching for date night ideas for busy couples will list several ways to date at home. This idea falls in that category for sure. We are just spicing it up and helping you have a conversation instead of just watching TV.
How can you spice up this at-home date night?
- Dress in your finest clothes
- Put some chocolate or cheese out
- Use your finest China (or Target find, thank you very much).
- Drink tea (or water) from your finest drinkware.
Please note: most weeks I haven’t washed my hair in days and I don’t have on makeup when we do this. Also, our chocolate is usually a bar of Hershey’s from Dollar General. Just do your best for the season you are in! It will still be fun.
Read one chapter of your chosen book each week. We chose The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
How can you spice up this at-home date night? Dress in your finest clothes Put some chocolate or cheese out Use your finest China (or Target find, thank you very much). Drink tea (or water) from your finest drinkware. Share on X
Reading Sparks Conversation
Friends, this the most important part. As you eat the fine chocolate, sip from your fine China and discuss each of your perspectives from the week, you get lost in the book together.
The adventures.
The mysteries.
The anticipation of what’s next.
You both forget about the stresses you faced at work earlier that week. The weight of uncertainty you’re facing in parenthood is not felt in that hour or so together.
The Finer Things Club is a place to get lost together each week. A place to refuel together. A safe place to love one another well, and be loved well back. A place to look forward to. Together. This one idea can create limitless date night topics for married couples in desperate need of a fresh spark.
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Can this One idea Spark Limitless Date Night Topics for Married Couples
I can already hear your objections. No, this won’t work for every couple. If you or your spouse hate reading it would be hard. Maybe you love reading but he does not. Most books can be found on Audible (Try It Free and get 2 books)* or on a book on tape – even from your public library.
If either of you is a reader this will work. Books bring fresh ideas, imagination, and fun back into your life. This is just one idea to help create date night topics for married couples. No, it’s not perfect for everyone but it’s worth a try. And if it doesn’t work for you, find something else. Keep searching until you find a way to have fun again and connect.
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Kristin lives in Huntsville, Al (or Rocket City as the Huntsvillian’s call it) with her husband Tim and two daughters. Kristin and her husband helped start Epic Church in San Francisco, Ca., and are now the lead planters of Essential Church in Huntsville, Al. While living and working in San Francisco, Kristin and her husband felt God calling them to Huntsville to start a church for people in the South who no longer believed church was for them. Connect with her at KristenMilner.com
If you enjoyed this check out these other posts:
- How to Have Difficult Conversations in Marriage
- What does the Bible Say about Happiness in Marriage
- How to Fast and Pray in a way that Pleases God
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Limitless Date Night Topics for Married Couples from One Activity is an awesome idea. It is so important to set aside time for you and your spouse. Thank you for pointing this out to us.
I can’t wait to try it. Bud and I are picking a book now!
I love the book idea! My husband isn’t the fastest reader, so the audio version idea is a great one.
We just started watching a National Geographic DVD series on the National Park which has been fun. Each one is about a half hour, so perfect for sneaking in when we don’t have a lot of time, or we’re tired 🙂 I’m thinking the library might be a good resource for DVD’s like this….
How fun to meet someone else who enjoys those. Yes, the Library is great for those and Netflix keeps a well-stocked library as well!
I love the idea of reading and discussing a book with my hubby. We tend to each read our own books and then tell each other about them, but this is way better. That being said, I think I want to do it in my pajamas lol
LOL, yes cute pajamas sound fun for this at-home date night!
What a fun idea for limitless date night topics for married couples! This would have been especially useful back when we had small children! Now that they’re mostly grown, we can go out without having to find a sitter, so that really opens up the possibilities. But, when children are small, creativity is key! Great idea!
LOL. Yes, creativity is key. And it’s important to make each other a priority so when they are not so small you still enjoy that time together!