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" I read on a billboard once, &amp;quot;Date Your Wife For the Rest of Your Life.&amp;quot; It sounds so simple, but man does that ring true! When I look back at Rex and my courtship, one of the things I loved the most about him was how he dated me. He was so thoughtful and respectful. He wasn&amp;#039;t slick or double-minded. He didn&amp;#039;t try any moves. He was interested in me for who I was, not just my body. He not only showed his respect for me with his words, he showed it in his actions. We went for coffee in diners. We attended some silly Hollywood parties that were completely not his thing, but he ponied up anyway. &amp;quot;I am crazy about you,&amp;quot; he once told me. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not having some other guy think you&amp;#039;re available!&amp;quot; That sort of protection and adoration made me fall in love with him. To this day, when we hang out just the two of us, I feel it all over again. Some of you readers might be like me in the sense that kids, crazy work schedules, house duties and family/friend relationships demand quite a bit of time. It&amp;#039;s easy to forget to &amp;quot;hang out&amp;quot; like you used to. It can seem like just another thing to schedule into your overly crowded to-do list. But that&amp;#039;s what makes it even more important. It&amp;#039;s essential to reconnect in the ways that you first fell for your spouse. When Rex gets back from Germany, he and I are going to re-establish our date nights. For us it&amp;#039;s a simple walk and dinner. It&amp;#039;s taking some time to figure out the holiday schedule so we don&amp;#039;t butt heads. It&amp;#039;s about laughing over some crazy in-law story and kissing like kids outside the car before heading back home to pay the sitter. And after the sitter leaves, it&amp;#039;s about enjoying each other in ways that created our two little rug rats in the first place. I&amp;#039;m so excited about 2011. It&amp;#039;s the year I&amp;#039;m going to start dating again. I couldn&amp;#039;t have a better spouse to do it with. I am quite certain you have one of those, too. And if you don&amp;#039;t remember, it&amp;#039;s definitely time to start dating! What do you like to do with your spouse? If you don&amp;#039;t date anymore, why not? How can you jump start it? * Photo of Rex and I camping. When was the last time we did that? A few years ago? Too long! I&amp;#039;m going to make plans to do this again soon. I just love it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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