Welcome to Unchecked Baggage, a podcast with hosts Lena and Rob, all about relationship advice. Join the conversation as they discuss emotional baggage, blended families, love, sex, relationships, and life. Lena and Rob are here to help you with your baggage—life is too short to be weighed down by unchecked baggage. Listen today as they discuss the importance of dating. 

In a long term relationship, having regular date nights is important. It ensures partners remain connected and prevents a relationship from getting stale. Rob shares three lesser known reasons why date night is so important. First, you will be happier when you and your partner are prioritizing each other. Also, your sex life will be better and the woman will have more social satisfaction.

Then, they give examples of various possible date ideas. Instead of talking about work or the kids, it’s best to focus the discussion around you as individuals and your relationship. Free date night ideas include staying home and watching a movie together, cooking dinner, going for a walk or drive or having a midnight picnic. For affordable date nights, you and your spouse could go to a restaurant and dress up a bit, go to a movie dinner, try axe throwing or escape rooms, go to a comedy club or for a little road trip. Then, they list some ideas for more expensive and extravagant date night ideas for special occasions. You could go to a hotel for a night, go to a fancy restaurant and dress up, take a vacation, take a helicopter ride or book an entire movie theater for yourselves. 

You have to spend time with your partner or your relationship will suffer. Date night is so necessary as a way of making the time and effort to be alone together. They also reveal that Wednesday is the most popular date night.

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