Romance is when you do something to express affection in an unexpected but meaning way. Is romance missing in your relationship? Here are simple, inexpensive ways to show your partner love and add romance to your relationship. Use romance to make your relationship stronger, remember it doesn't have to take a lot of time or money sometimes the simple things mean the most. Practice romance everyday and keep your relationship alive and new.
Things You’ll Need:
picnic basket
blanket
car
flowers
candles
bathtub
paper
pen
fireplace
greeting card
camera
DVD or VHS movie
wine or champagne
shrimp, crackers & cheese, strawberries, grapes or cherries
newspaper
music
Step 1 - Take a day trip, pack a picnic lunch and relax on a blanket.
Step 2 - Go to a drive-in movie or if your neighborhood has movie night under the stars, take a blanket and go watch the movie together.
Step 3 - Prepare the bathroom with flowers and candles and take a bath together washing each other slowly. You don't have to have a giant jacuzzi tub to do this.
Step 4 - Write your partner a love letter.
Step 5 - Listen carefully to things your partner mentions or likes; buy small gifts and hide them in different places where he/she will find them like a desk drawer, the kitchen drawer, a pocket, etc.
Step 6 - Light candles and the fireplace and have an indoor picnic on the floor by the fireplace.
Step 7 - Make a shadow box of your first date or the first time you met.
Step 8 - Send a "I Love You" or friendship card everyday for a week.
Step 9 - Write a love message on the bathroom mirror with lipstick.
Step 10 - List 100 reason why you are in love with your partner.
Step 11 - Go for a walk in the pouring rain on a warm summer night.
Step 12 - If your partner travels pack several sexy, tasteful photos of you in his suitcase.
Step 13 - Plan a surprise getaway to a 4-star hotel or a bed and breakfast. Let your partner know what to pack but keep the destinations a surprise.
Step 14 - Plan a movie night in bed, light candles and serve shrimp, crackers & cheese, wine or champagne, strawberries, grapes or cherries.
Step 15 - Dress up and slow dance in the living room to candle light.
Step 16 - Call your partner's voice mail and leave a romantic song as the message like "I just called to say I love you" by Stevie Wonder.
Step 17 - Make your partner a handmade card just because.
Step 18 - Make your partner a handmade present.
Step 19 - Get up early on Sunday morning, go for a walk with your partner, come back and sit on the porch or the deck and have breakfast and read the Sunday newspaper together.
Step 20 - Read erotica out loud to each other you never know where that can lead.
Step 21 - Trace a message like "I love you" on your partner's back with your index finger.
Step 22 - Return to the place where you met or where you had your first date for each anniversary.
Step 23 - Plan a romantic evening with dinner, candlelight, roses, soft music and make a trail of rose petals leading to the bathroom for a bath or shower together and another trail of rose petals leading to the bedroom.
Step 24 - Send your partner flowers to their jobs or home for no reason.
Step 25 - Turn on quiet music, light candles and take turns massaging each others feet, body and scalp.
Step 26 - Pretend you and your partner just met and court them. Do the same things you did to impress them when you first met.
Step 27 - Spend time every day cuddling and snuggling without it leading to sex. Do this before you get out of bed each morning or just before going to sleep at night.
Step 28 - Have a joke night where you spend time telling each other jokes and laughing out loud. Laugh until it hurts. This can be a lot of fun.
Step 29 - Write a poem or rap song together and then take turns reading it or rapping.
Step 30 - Pray together. Have morning devotion together or read the entire bible together one day at a time.
Tips & Warnings:
Remember a man's idea of romance might be different than a women's so a lot of things on this list might not work for your relationship. In some cases you might have to compromise and do what your partner enjoys even though you might not enjoy it as much.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
How to Romance Your Partner and Keep Your Love Alive and New
How to find true love on the internet
When you think that you can only find love by locally dating " Think Again".
Things You’ll Need:
• Personal computer, or local library
• A email account
• A very open mind and heart
Step 1 - First, You would need to determine if your ready to get back in the game. Whether it be dating locally or finding love through the world wide web. It's like the yellow pages let your fingers do the searching.
Step 2 - Stop thinking! No! Really Stop thinking! you can't find love over the internet if you have doubts starting out. Have an open mind and explore all the possibilities even if it means stepping out of your norm.
Step 3 - Select a quiet space to yourself that you and your new friends can let your imagination run wild and explore.
Step 4 - Make your family and friends apart of your new way of searching for love. Make sure they have your happiness in their best interest; even if they think your mad out of your mind to search for love on the internet. follow your intuition and start surfing.
Step 5 - When that special friend request pops in your inbox. OPEN IT!!! for it might be that one click that opens your heart for a lifetime.
Step 6 - Purchase a comfortable chair that you can sit for hours at a time, because once you've found that special friend you would be chatting back and forth for hours as if your in high school again. Go ahead! Embrace the feelings of butterflies it's quite nice.
Step 7 - Check you pulse and make sure you breathing. It's very important!
Step 8 - Stretch your hands ,face, and abdominal muscles, because you would be doing alot of smiling.
Step 9 - If searching the net doesn't find you that one true love, look on the bright side and keep surfing. I know you would find that perfect wave. Keep stepping out of your box and exploring. You might make connections that might lead you to your one true love.
Tips & Warnings:
• Have fun, but don't get carried away ok!.
• Make sure you ask all the right questions to find out all you can.
• Make sure you don't spend all you time on the web. Your family and friends could feel left out.
• Last....... more investigation!
• Screen carefully, the net can be very dangerous and unsafe.
How to Have a Happy Love Life
When you first fall in love, it can feel like your entire life is in harmony. You feel totally connected to the other person and you want to spend every waking moment with him or her. You haven't yet noticed the other person's flaws and it's as if the sun rises and sets with this new love in your life. Unfortunately, this phase doesn't last. The newness eventually wears off as reality sets in. The good news is that with the right mindset and attitude, you can keep the magic in your relationship.
Things You’ll Need:
• Love
• Compassion
• Understanding
• Good Listening Skills
Step 1 - Decide that you are going to have happy relationship. Anything that you ever do will begins with a thought. Visualize yourself and your partner in a happy and healthy relationship.
Step 2 - Handle conflict in a loving way. Every couple has disagreements. The way you handle them will help determine the success of your relationship. Don't insist on being right. Instead, focus on understanding your partner's point of view and be a good listener. This will help keep your partner from becoming defensive and he or she will appreciate being heard.
Step 3 - Be responsible for your own happiness. Understand that it's not your partner's job to make you happy. In the early stages of your relationship, your partner may feel flattered to know that you depend on him or her for fulfillment, but after a while, they will feel drained and suffocated. True happiness comes from within. Be your own source of happiness and that will make your relationship much sweeter
Step 4 - Don't be consumed by jealousy. This can do serious damage to a relationship. The poet Maya Angelou once said that jealousy is like salt. In small amounts, it can add spice to a relationship but too much is unhealthy.
Step 5 - Don't take your partner for granted. Remind yourself why you fell in love with this person in the first place. Focus on your partner's positive attributes and remember that no one is perfect.
Tips & Warnings:
• Spend quality time alone with your partner.
• Compliment your partner.
• Be supportive of your partner.
• Don't dwell on previous disagreements. Let them stay in the past.
• Don't nag your partner.
How to Keep Your Boyfriend Happy
Step 1 - GIVE HIM SPACE! If you do not give somebody air, how can they breathe? If you are dating somebody that has never had a serious relationship, or have been dating the same person for years, they are going to need their space. HE NEEDS TIME TO BE A MAN! Let him play some ball with his friends, go to the bar without you, be alone for a while! If you cannot give him time alone without trusting him, you should not be dating. How can let him live and enjoy his life without trusting him?
Step 2 - KEEP IT SIMPLE! Guys do not want to know every little detail about how your day went and how struggled with your hair all morning and how somebody is driving you crazy. After a long day of work all that they want to hear is that you love them and that everything is ok. Why add more stress to his life? It only leads to fights, and yelling.
Step 3 - ITS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU! A relationship takes 2. This means you have to give a little to get a little. Stop complaining just because he did not add enough sugar to your tea! So what if he rented a movie that you do not approve of. He has the right to his own opinions as well.
Step 4 - DON'T TRY TO CHANGE HIM! If you love him, you have to love him for who he is. Stop buying him clothes that he will not wear, don't make him tattoo your name on him if he is against tattoos. Don't buy him on a veggie diet if he loves meat. He needs to know that you love him for who he is or he is going to become insecure.
Tips & Warnings:
Never forget to let him know that you love him, and you do not have to tell him every 2 minutes. If he does something that does not make you happy, and then you yell at him, be sure to say "I love You" shortly after. It take 10 compliments to make up for one insult.
How to remind your boyfriend/husband that they're special
6 ways to remind your boyfriend/husband that they are special.
Men like to be pampered too.
Things You’ll Need:
• Time
• Desire
Step 1 - Send him a simple text message saying "I Luv U" ,or "I'm thinking about you".
Step 2 - Bring him lunch. Deliver it with a special note card attached.
Step 3 - Get 1 red balloon. Write (black marker) a special note on it and attach it to the steering wheel of the car (so he see's it when it gets in). Total surprise.
Step 4 - Take a seductive picture wearing black lingerie and holding (or biting a black rose). Send it to his cell phone, with no text attached. If he calls, or text you back, just ignore the fact that you send the pic (you don't know what he's talking about). Later that evening surprise him by wearing the same lingerie you had on, and just seduce him. The next day, place the black rose on the seat of his car with a note attached saying something special, such as "you're wonderful,#1,I Love You"...ect
Step 5 - Give him a foot massage with vanilla or banana scented massage cream.
Step 6 - Pack his bag and have him meet you at the airport or in the driveway (give no further information). Surprise him with a special trip for two.
How to charm and spoil a man
Are you wondering how to keep the romantic spark lit in your relationship?
Charm your man with these simple ideas.
He will feel appreciated, pampered, and even spoiled.
Things You’ll Need:
• A husband/boyfriend
• Thoughtfulness
• Creativity
Step 1 - 
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and it couldn't be more true. I seduced my amazing husband with homemade lasagna. Whatever your killer recipe is, now is the time to use it. If cooking doesn't work for you, find the BEST chinese or take out place in town and serve it up on nice dishes.
Step 2 -
Be thoughtful and creative. Watch the sun come up together. Breakfast in bed with the morning paper is always a great way to spoil your man. You can also try to find out more about whatever his interests are - sports, politics, computers, etc. Learn how to appreciate watching sports is a great idea, but if you're not into that, try step 3 instead.
Step 3 - 
Suggest to host a couple of his friends over to watch the game, and you make some snacks and leave them alone. Have lots of cold beer on hand, and believe me -- he will LOVE this!
Step 4 - 
Put yourself in his shoes. How would you feel after a long day at work, mowing the lawn, taking out the garbage, etc? Find ways to show your appreciation for everything he does for you.
Tips & Warnings:
• Keep a cold beer in the fridge.
• Find out what his favorite kind of cigar, and then have some stored away for special occasions.
James Lavelle moves into film with "X-Files" credit, and new album
British DJ James Lavelle, creator of hit electro act UNKLE, has set his sights on silver screen success with a cinematically-inspired new album as well as a contribution to the just-released "X-Files"- the movie. Lavelle has worked with some of the top names in music, from Radiohead's Thom Yorke to The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft, and is also known as creator of the seminal record label Mo'Wax.
Now the DJ is set to reach a new audience with his reworking of the theme for "X-Files", the hit TV-series turned into a film. The latest direction for the 33-year-old, whose commercial success has never matched the respect he commands among his peers, came after a personal request from "X-Files" creator Chris Carter.
"Film has always been quite influential for me but I won't work with a film just for the sake of doing it," the Oxford-born artist told AFP.
As a self-confessed sci-fi geek, Lavelle claims to have seen every episode of the show and was more than keen to provide the remixed theme and an old UNKLE track, "Broken," for the end credits. The film, which opened in Europe at the end of July, stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in the roles of FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they continue their investigations into the paranormal.
Its release coincides with the release of Lavelle's new album "End Titles..Stories for Films," which features Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and includes tracks written for "Odyssey in Rome," a documentary about cult Hollywood director Abel Ferrera, who also appears on the album.
Lavelle says however that he has no plans to focus full-time on writing cinematic scores, but stresses he enjoys the challenge of composing.
