Day 11 – Just what the love doctor ordered – A Christmas Date
Hey Dad,
Had a date with my bride last night. Actually, it wasn’t much fun because…oh, just because. Normally, date nights with my wife are wonderful. We hold hands, talk across the table, and look into each other’s eyes. Yep, last night wasn’t one of those dates.
Here’s the deal, my fellow familyman: Christmas just screams “DATE NIGHT.” There’s something magical about soft music, Christmas lights, and a stroll though a store at Christmas time.
Truth is: dates undo what life does to marriages.
But it won’t happen, Dad, unless you make it happen. You need to invite your wife a day or two in advance (so she can mentally prepare for it), get a babysitter, and take her out. Combine it with some Christmas-gift-shopping-purpose, and she won’t refuse. In fact, I’ve had many wives write and say, “I wish my husband would care enough to do the planning and make a date night happen.”
Not to sound like a broken record, but dads tell me too often that “we haven’t been on a date in ten years.” SHAME on those dads. You may not FEEL like you need a date, but you do…and so does your wife.
So make it happen soon before it’s too late (this weekend is perfect).
You ‘da dad,
Todd – aka Dr. Love
PS – Speaking of dates…I don’t know how to bring this up gently…but you may need to spruce up a bit before you go.
Here’s a date check list:
– Clean up and smell good
– Trim and clean out the gunk from under your nails (think toe nails too)
– Shave
– Trim those hairs in your ears, nose, and…anywhere else that looks bushy
– Put on ‘you’re going out clothes’…not your comfortable ones…the ones your wife picked out.
Ahhh…That’s better.
You still got it!!!!
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Todd,
My wife and I have a romantic Christmas tradition that includes the dentist! Actually, the dentist is just the catalyst for making sure we schedule it each year. Here’s how it works: my wife and I schedule our annual dental checkup for the first Friday of December, early in the morning, usually the first appointment of the day. I take the day off, make sure the children are OK for the day (ours are old enough to stay by themselves now, we used to arrange for care), and we spend the rest of the day doing Christmas shopping, going out for a fast food lunch, then go to a nicer restaurant for dinner and maybe something else later (movie?). Of course the shopping doesn’t sound romantic to me, and the dentist is not your best date place, but planning for a year in advance for a day together makes it something to anticipate. The folks in the dentist office know when we walk in that we are going to spend the rest of the day together, and even my co-workers say “Oh, that’s your dentist/shopping day, isn’t it?” It’s probably the most consistent Christmas tradition we have as a couple. It’s dissappointing when other events get scheduled for that day, like church Christmas parties (last year) or surgical follow-ups (this year), because we always anticipate it as “our dentist date.” So we spend as much of the day together as possible. If it weren’t for the dentist, we probably wouldn’t do it every year, but now the day of our dental exams is one of our favorite days of the year. So after tomorrow’s appointment, we will schedule our Christmas date for 2013. I’m really looking forward to seeing the dentist tomorrow! DW
P.S. and yes, my wife will pick out my clothes tomorrow morning.
Great idea!!!!