Date Night: Benefits of Dating Your Mate

Benefits of Dating Your Mate

  1. Critical for the health of your relationship. Marriage relationships are dynamic in that they are alive and always changing. They need to be fed and stimulated to stay alive and to grow.
  2. Helps you get re-acquainted. There is always something new about your spouse. We all change! Dating is a good way update and deepen your knowledge of your spouse. It’s vital that we keep that curiosity and interest in each other flourishing.
  3. Great invest in the future. Just like a savings account, the more you invest in your relationship the more it will grow exponentially over time. Dates also lay the framework for future times together and helps attract your spouse to want to spend time with you in the future.
  4. Puts the focus back on the marriage. Day in and day out, distractions pull your attention away from your spouse. Dates help refocus on the person at the top of your priority list. The only thing the two of you have to concentrate on is each other.
  5. Remember the good times. A good date will often bring up pre-marriage memories. Recalling memories can generate positive feelings and anticipation for your next meeting.
  6. Sends a positive message. A marriage needs to be viewed as something valuable, special and precious—something important enough to put ongoing effort into. Date night communicates that your spouse is valuable enough not to give all of your “prime time” to other people or things.
  7. Strengthens the marital bond. The more time you spend alone with your spouse enjoying each other the stronger your bond becomes. This naturally deepens your intimacy and brings you closer together.
  8. It's a great way to reconnect. Dating helps you to unplug from your busy and hectic paced life and reconnect to have fun and enjoy each other.
  9. Rekindles the romance in your relationship. Having a night out with your spouse is an important part of keeping romance alive.
  10. Injects excitement into a stale marriage. Spouses can easily become distant roommates under the stress of work, household duties and childrearing. We need to feel that the adrenalin in us is still pumping and is in abundant supply. Don’t ever get sucked into believing that your marriage feels like a “recycled” union of two tired and bored souls.
  11. Helps you both decompress. Date night gives couples a chance to enjoy each other's company without being weighed down by the demands of life. No distractions from children, other family, friends or work. Just the two of you, spending quality time with each other. A night free from stress where you can re-discover who you fell in love with.
  12. Strengthens your commitment. By making time for date nights, we deliver the message to our spouse that divorce is out of the question and that you’re committed to strengthening your marriage by spending ongoing, quality time together.