Sept - Date your mate month!

I heard that they've made September is date your mate month. What a GREAT idea!!! They say to date your mate 1-2 times per week. Perhaps even going so far as to "recreate" your first date. They want to encourage those people who have mates to not forget what brought them together. Forget the kids, the job, the stuff that gets you caught up in life in general and just remember why you have the mate you have. I think it's a great idea! I sent my hubby a text message and invited him on a date on Saturday. Now, how many of you are going to take a little extra time to date your mate this month and what are you going to do?

My honey arrives tomorrow from Phoenix (I'm in Sacramento right now) to help me complete the last minute items for my move back to Phoenix to be with him. The rest of the month is "our time" together since we've been apart so long. Not even going to look for work for a couple weeks, just enjoy being back with him. Have a great day... Fanny

I didn't know it was date your mate month......but we did arrange a babysitter (first time in months and months) and we are getting together with friends for a BBQ, drinks, games......Does that count?? Otherwise..I will have to let him know about this and see if he wants to take me out! I am 4 weeks out from plastics and starting to feel human again.....I had some issues with swelling Oh well.....It would be nice to have a little extra alone time take Care and thanks for the heads up jesi

I've been pretty consistantly "dating" my mate for about 31 years. And I am only 44. met at 13, married at 17 (altho we didn't see each other every week when we were actually not married, long distance romance from about 185 miles apart, and then there was the year he went away to Florida to school and only saw each other on Christmas break) We recently celebrated our 27th anniversary. We do make a point of getting out alone once a week. Might have missed a couple here and there when the kids were young. I agree it is very important to schedule quality time with your mate if you want to keep feeling good about each other. It helps keep things going when you are tired, overworked, stressed with the kids etc. it also helps reduce the boredom when you look over at him sleeping / snoring in the recliner and think " be still my beating heart, the romance is killing me." So it is a safe bet we will be on a daqte several times in Sept. Looking forward to my birthday we are going to Green Bay to the Packer game.

WOW Willow, that's wonderful! Have fun at the game.

Hey cool, I didn't know September had a theme. My man travels a LOT, but is supposed to be home on the 3rd (crossing fingers, as I haven't booked his flight yet lol, the logistics are killing me). We will actually get to spend most of September together. We have plans for the weekend of the 24th, to go to the Nascar races in Dover.. hoping that pans out, as we had to miss the last race due to his work. If all goes well, we'll be broke, yet happy by October, after spending loads of quality time together. This is a good thing, yes? LOL, j/k Wendy