FamilyLife Australia

 

There is hardly a wife who can resist a bouquet of a dozen fresh roses from her beloved. How about going one step further. Here are 10 ideas from the new FamilyLife resource, Simply Romantic®: Tips to Romance Your Wife. The book has 99 tips, but to round it out to an even 100, here's one extra tip before you start: Print out this page and keep it somewhere handy for fresh and creative ways of fanning the flames of romance in your marriage.

 

1. Give your wife a journal for recording her secret romantic wishes. Read it regularly  and then make her wishes come true.
2. Using Post-it® notes, list the reasons why you love your wife and then leave them all around the house. Hide some of them in places where it might take days for her to find them.
3.  Compliment your wife in front of others—especially your kids. You may be the only one who's doing it!
4.  Snuggle (just snuggle!) in bed and tell her all the things you admire about her.
5. Plan a romantic weekend at a bed-and-breakfast. Make all of the arrangements yourself.
6. Ask your wife what animal you remind her of. Purchase a stuffed version of that animal and present it to her.
7. Get tickets for two (and that includes you) to a "chick flick" she wants to see.
8.  Bathe the kids. Clean the kitchen. Fold the laundry. Make the bed. Do whatever it is she normally does. Tell her to relax.
9. Ask her what she enjoys in bed. Do it regularly.
10. Look in her eyes and just listen.