{"id":1123,"date":"2019-12-03T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:38:17","slug":"keep-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/keep-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a couple marries, one of the first things to go in their relationship is dating. Most couples stop the very thing that helped them fall in love in the first place. And from a rational standpoint, it makes a lot of sense.&nbsp;<br><br>Before you got married, you had separate lives, interests, and routines. Dates were a way that you could connect your separate lives, and create some shared experiences.&nbsp;<br><br>Now that you&#8217;re married, you don\u2019t have the separate lives you used to. Now, you go to sleep together, wake up together, and come home around the same time. Together. There are lots of experiences together.&nbsp;<br><br>You might be asking, <em>&#8220;why do we need to go on dates now that we spend all this time together?\u201d<\/em><br><br>The answer is quite simple. You need dates to remember why you fell in love, and to create new experiences to strengthen your love.<br><br>If you don\u2019t spend time investing in your relationship, it\u2019ll atrophy. <br><br>Relationships don\u2019t grow without attention, and more importantly, intention. <strong>Dating is a way to intentionally pay attention.<\/strong>&nbsp;(If you&#8217;re a guy reading this, your wife will 100% agree with me that getting asked out by her husband is sexy.) <br><br>Go on a date once a week, or at the very least twice a month. Pick a night, get a babysitter that you can count on, and take turns planning what you do on your date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple marries, one of the first things to go in their relationship is dating. Most couples stop the very thing that helped them fall in love in the first place. And from a rational standpoint, it makes a lot of sense.&nbsp; Before you got married, you had separate lives, interests, and routines. 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