**Expect the unexpected. Be spontaneous and suggest something completely out of character. Send an intimate greeting card for no reason. Suddenly stop beside a country road, breath in the fresh air and say, "I love you!" and then be on your way. If your partner loves sports on TV, sit alongside and watch the game, too. Let your imagination have free reign.

 

            **Who said life had to be so serious? There will be faux pas and rock and roll!  So what? Better to just roll with the punches. Poke fun at yourself, it is very refreshing, but, not at your partner. That's their own job. Smile all the time.

 

            **Take on “the art of communicating.” An entire book could be written on this subject!  Your communication is the most important aspect of your love life.  Without it, you are only half a person.  We communicate in all kinds of ways, including verbal and non-verbal.

 

             Just be very open to your partner and listen.  Listening is the key to communicating. When you are communicating well you feel connected.  When you feel disconnected you become distant.  Your love life cannot survive being distant.

 

            **Watch what you say. Choose the words you speak with great care. Words hastily offered are not easily retrieved.  They become your reality. Your love life lives on the tip of your tongue.

 

            **Make an effort each day to tell your partner how much they mean to you and how much they are appreciated. Talk with tenderness. Use terms of endearment, such as "Honey," "Sweetie," "Baby," etc. and be polite, saying "thank you." Whisper even the simplest of words that reflect your love and your relationship will grow.

 

            **Nurture your love life with words of affection, understanding, acceptance and forgiveness. Nurture is to nourish, educate, grow or develop; cultivate.

 

            **Cultivate a healthy love life.  Healthy couples can identify problems with confidence.  They can talk openly and honestly about their differences and come to workable solutions. Work on this actively, or the relationship will evaporate.

 

            **Trusting and Being Trusted.  Be a straight shooter.  Trust is the great equalizer in a good relationship; without it there is no good!  A good foundation in a healthy love relationship is built on trust and trust must be earned.

 

            Holding back on the truth about how you feel, only telling part of the story, fudging on what your wants and needs are to your partner slowly erodes the trust in your relationship. Total honesty brings about awesome trust.  Do all that you can to achieve it!

 

            **Go the extra mile.  Motivate each other to be the best you can be. Be inventive in coming up with ways to inspire your love life. Never stop. NEVER! Push the romance envelope with a getaway in the mountains for a long weekend. Splurge and go all out! Use your imagination.