Date nights feel amazing, don’t they? After a long, hectic day or a long, hectic week unwinding with your partner by planning something romantic feels nothing short of heavenly.
You finally have some much-needed time with each other, where you can just focus on one another, and not think about anything else. But do you know how you can make your date nights even more special? The answer to that is by knowing your and your partner’s love languages.
The more you understand each other’s love languages, the better you will be able to communicate your needs. What is the one thing that makes you feel the most special? What are those things that make your partner feel loved and taken care of? Both of you will be able to answer these questions, the moment you know what your primary love languages are.
One of the most important ingredients of a happy relationship is being aware not just of how you are receiving love, but also how your partner is receiving love too. Understanding each other’s love languages will help you shower love and affection on each other without having to try too hard.
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What are the 5 Love Languages?
It was Gary Chapman who conceptualized the idea of love languages in his book, The 5 Love Languages, where he outlines five styles of communicating and showing love in a relationship. Keep in mind that everyone’s love language might not be the same, as everyone’s way of feeling special is different.
The five love languages are as following:
1. Quality Time
Your love language is quality time, when spending a lot of time together makes you the happiest. It doesn’t matter what you are doing, as long as you both are together, and are showering undivided attention on each other, you are happy.
2. Physical Touch
Any kind of physical touch and physical contact makes you feel happy and special. It doesn’t always have to be sexual in nature; holding hands, cuddling, hugging – these forms of physical touch can also make you feel romantic and remarkable.
3. Receiving Gifts
This love language might sound superficial and materialistic, but it’s honestly not. The gifts do not have to extravagant and expensive, and nor do you need to spend a lot of money to make your partner happy. It’s more about the thought and efforts you are putting in when giving the gift. It might be a book they have been eyeing for some time, it might be getting them their favorite cake when they are on their period, or it can simply be a flower you picked up on the way home from work.
4. Acts Of Service
Acts of service means when you do things for your partner that shows how much you love them and care for them. You might surprise them with their favorite dinner when they come back home after a tough day at work, or you get the groceries without them having to remind you constantly. It’s the little things you do that makes all the difference.
5. Words Of Affirmation
When you show your partner how much you love them and appreciate them with your words, that’s what words of affirmation stand for. Affirmations like, ‘I am so lucky to have you in my life!’, ‘You are such an amazing husband’, or ‘I could never have done this without you!’ etc. never fails to make someone feel extra special.
So, are you ready for the good and exciting part now? Read on for beautiful date night ideas, according to your love language.
40 Date Night Ideas According To Your Love Language
a) Quality Time
1. Chill out together at the end of the day, after you have tucked in the kids for the night. Pop open a bottle of wine, snuggle up on the couch and watch a heartwarming movie on Netflix.
2. Organize a picnic for just the two of you in the park, on a bright, sunny day. Pack a picnic lunch and spend the day together, immersed in love and romance.
3. Plan a road trip and visit all those places that you and your partner have always wanted to visit. Road trips are one of the most perfect ways of bonding with each other.
4. Going on a camping trip together is one of the most romantic ways of spending quality time with each other. Spending a few nights under the stars with no one and nothing to interrupt you, you can have beautiful and meaningful conversations with each other, all night long.
5. Working out together is another amazing way of spending a lot of time with each other. Sweating it out at the gym or indulging in some relaxing yoga will pump you up with endorphins and both of you will feel happier.
6. Visit the farmer’s market together, shop to your hearts’ content, and go back home and whip up a delicious meal. What’s better than having a candlelight dinner that is lovingly cooked by you both?
7. Recreate the very first date both of you had together. Wear the clothes you wore then, do what you did when you first met each other, and reminisce about how far both of you and your relationship has come from that first date.
8. Simply lounge around on your bed or couch all day in your pajamas and relax. Watch a movie if you want, sleep in together, cuddle, make love, or whatever you want to do, as long as you are both together.
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b) Physical Touch
1. Hire a babysitter to look after your kid for an evening, and organize a spa session at home. Light up some scented candles, indulge in an aromatherapy bath and give each other relaxing and sensual massages.
2. Go on a romantic walk together in a scenic location. Hold hands and hug each other as you take in your beautiful surroundings, and if you are lucky, you can also catch the beautiful sunset.
3. Switch on the hot tub or take a dip together in the swimming pool. Make sure that you are snuggling in close to each other!
4. Take dance classes together, as this will ensure that you are always touching each other. Going for salsa, bachata, ballet, and tango classes can heat things up between you two and will make sure that the romance is at its peak.
5. Book a couples’ yoga class and do all the couples’ poses together. If both of you are able to nail all the poses, then that’s an amazing thing! But in case you falter and struggle, you will still have fun and will have sweet memories.
6. Play sports together. If you are good at a sport he is not, you can show him and guide him through it. And if he is good at a sport you are not, then he can show you how to go about with it, with a lot of touching and romance.
7. Play sexy games with each other, that will lead to some steamy action between the sheets. You can buy naughty games online, or you can build your own. Whichever option you choose, be rest assured that the passion will reach new heights!
8. Go ice skating or roller skating. Even if both of you are amazing at that, you will still end up having a lot of fun, and if you are not, then just imagine the laughter and goofiness that will ensue when both of you will be constantly falling on each other!
c) Receiving Gifts
1. Surprise your partner on your anniversary with all the things they always wanted to buy, but never did. Getting all their dream gifts will make their heart leap with joy.
2. Take pottery or painting classes, and gift each other your finished products. You are not only giving them gifts, but you are also giving them the fruits of your efforts, which make it even more special and meaningful.
3. Throw them their dream birthday party, and get all their favorite foods and gifts.
4. Whenever you go for a walk, or when you are on your way home, get them a little something. It doesn’t have to be expensive and extravagant all the time; as long as it’s meaningful and has a lot of love. For example, their favorite flowers or their favorite cake.
5. Go on a shopping spree together and buy each other all of your favorite things. This will not just make both of you happy from receiving the gifts, but you will also get to spend a lot of quality time together.
6. Surprise your partner with a weekend getaway to someplace where they have always wanted to go, and where both of you can relax for a few days, away from all the stress and chaos of daily life.
7. Organize a party in your partner’s honor and invite both your families and your closest friends to make your partner feel special and pampered.
8. Plan a treasure hunt, and leave clues as to where the next reward is. All the rewards will be their favorite things, especially those things that they have always had their eye on.
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d) Acts Of Service
1. Cook them their favorite dinner, and surprise them when they come home after a long, tiring day at work.
2. Do a few household chores without them asking you to because you can see that they are swamped with work or are busy taking care of the kids.
3. Surprise them at work and take them out for lunch to their favorite deli or restaurant, just because you want to do something special for them.
4. Create a ‘no social media and mobile phones’ day, and solely focus on each other. The occasional digital detox can work wonders for both of you mentally, and also for your relationship.
5. Instead of ordering a cake from outside, bake them a cake for their birthday. Even if you are not a baker and you are not good with all this, your efforts will still win you brownie points (pun intended!).
6. Take them to the nearest Barnes and Noble and buy them a few books from their ‘To Be Read’ list. Once you are done, visit a nearby coffee shop, and over steaming cups of coffee, have nice and indulgent conversations.
7. Leave them little chocolates and sweets in the nooks and corners of the cupboard, on their pillow, in their shirt/dress pockets, and in between the pages of their books. The moment they will find these, their happiness will know no bounds!
8. Take part in activities they like to do. Even if you are not particularly interested in doing them, make an effort to indulge them, so that your partner feels happy and special.
e) Words Of Affirmation
1. Renew your vows on your wedding anniversary. It doesn’t have to be like a full-blown wedding; just you two writing your vows down, going on a romantic date, and saying your vows out loud to each other.
2. Create a deep and heartfelt video for them, where you talk about how much you love them and how important and special they are for you. In order to make this more special, present this video to them as a surprise when they least expect it.
3. Indulge in a karaoke night, and sing all those songs that describe best how much you really love them.
4. Leave them little love notes all over the house, detailing how much they matter to you, and how important they are in your life.
5. If you are into poetry, make a little booklet of your own poems, and read them aloud in the next poetry reading session or club.
6. Ask them out on a romantic date by sending them a lovey-dovey video message.
7. Create a playlist for them, that will consist of all their and your favorite songs, especially those songs that perfectly describe your love for each other and your relationship.
8. If you are not a very expressive person, you can gift them a book of romantic and deep poetry or a book of beautiful and loving quotes. This will not just make them feel happy, they will also appreciate your efforts.
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So, what is your love language, and which of these date ideas are you going to try out with your partner? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below!
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