A film, beer, and takeaway food. Is this a simple picture of your usual weekend with a guy? Welcome to the club “We have been living together for a long time, so good-bye romance”. It seems that you can only shake you up and create a special atmosphere by going to a restaurant or a zoo, but your apartment is equally suitable for a good evening. Here’s a clue to an ideal home date. The ingredients include simple and long-forgotten charms. Candles, erotic lingerie, and rose petals do not belong to them.
1. Cook dinner together
Our today’s topic of the lesson on strengthening a relationship is “Joint cooking”. This is a universal tool for getting closer, not only as a couple. A survey conducted in the US showed that most people are confident that cooking food units. Approximately one thousand people took part in the study: 88% of those who are in a serious relationship, 94% of those who are engaged, 89% of those who have recently got married, and 84% of those who have been married for a long time, said that cooking is one of the main occupations for a couple.
Even if your boyfriend has never held a frying pan in his hands, treat cooking dinner as an exciting game. Choose something new and interesting, but not too expensive and complicated, so as not to spoil the mood. Do not focus on the result. Follow the tips of Bridget Jones, the queen of awkward situations, and do not worry if the result resembles her famous blue soup.
2. Create your playlist
Open a bottle of something alcoholic, light and invigorating because it’s too early to relax – and enjoy music to the sound of the boiling pots. The right playlist for dating should include both symbolic songs that evoke funny memories and new tracks that you want to dance to. Leave a slow song that makes you cry for a more intimate atmosphere. A kitchen evening should be held on a positive note.
3. Do not wear home clothes
Do not forget to put something on instead of them, otherwise, the whole meeting will end too quickly. It’s hard to resist the temptation to go home and get dressed into something loose, soft, and having a dried up chocolate stain on the leg. Find the balance between the outfit and what you usually wear in the apartment. Simply put, add to the shabby T-shirt and pajama shorts a couple of clothing items and a careless bun on the head.
4. Set aside the phone
Mobile phones should not be brought to a date! At least you should avoid keeping it in your hands. A smartphone can come in handy during the evening to look for the recipe, turn on the music or call an ambulance in case of a failing culinary experience. A memorable photo is also a good reason, but you immediately want to post it in the social networks, so it’s tempting.
5. Pretend being a bartender
During this evening, there should be no ready-made solutions, so forget about wine and other simple drinks. Take a few ingredients and create your own branded cocktail. Or a few of them. For this purpose, you do not need to have your own mini-bar: take a couple of drinks as the base and mix them with juices and fruits in different proportions.
6. End the evening with something other than watching TV
Resist the desire to finish the evening watching a movie or a TV show. While watching series and shows, we suffer from pauses in conversations, and we are shielded not only from the problems but also from each other. As an exception, spend your special evening without media, even if you have been together for a hundred years. If there seems to be nothing to talk about anymore, listen to new music, retell for the hundredth time your favorite stories, remember how you spent your last vacation, or share your impressions of a recently read book. Cocktails will help to focus on each other and will remind you how much you still want to say.