Edit: Thanks all for the responses, guess it’s more about what’s important between the 2 of you. After around a decade, things are starting to feel a bit repetitive I guess so I was trying to see if I could gain some fresh ideas.

  • kyle@lemm.ee
    9·
    9 months ago

    Something meaningful to your partner, not just a fancy place (those are nice too).

    Close by our house is a little pho place that my wife loves. She hates the cold weather, and if it’s an especially chilly day she’s usually feeling “meh” but if I say “let’s go get warm soup belly” her mood instantly changes and I think that’s romantic :)

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    I like dinner out and a walk in the city, to a bar for one drink.

    Home doesn’t work because it’s infested with kids and I would end up cooking the dinner. (I absolutely love family supper but it’s not romantic).

    If capital D Date is not a requirement, most romantic is waking up together and doing it again, absolutely.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    9 months ago

    I’m alright just hanging out in his or her house. Going places is nice, but you shouldn’t go somewhere to have a nice time just because it’s a status symbol to consider that date-like. A lot of people treat outings to venues and attractions like you’re recharging the batteries on your relationship, and to me that comes off as a red flag because then the dynamic isn’t flowing and is more like something that consciously must be maintained.