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Whether striving for “status,” wanting to be known for your “family values,” someone who is “fun, loving and carefree,” or any number of other stereotypes, people will judge you be the car you routinely drive. Husbands are acutely aware of cars and the “personality” each car conveys.
Men like muscle and power, women like protection and relationships. How do you bring these often opposing goals to fit into one vehicle? Answer: compromise and conversation.
Husbands want to please their wives…a real man wants his wife to be constantly enriching herself and happy. As a wife, you need to seriously consider how you can have the vehicle you want and keep harmony with your muscle, power-hungry husband.
Mike McCann

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Here are 13 enriching activities (in two parts) to keep that “spark” in married life:

1. Go to the putt-putt golf course as a family activity. Women under no circumstances do you suggest going to the golf course. I’m starting off easy here.
2. Park your car at the end of the airport parking or go to the airport observation deck and sit close to one another in the outdoors. Just quietly relax, watching planes come and go. Men like any machine that moves (planes, trains, automobiles, boats).
3. If your kids are staying with friends for the evening, go to a nice hotel overnight. Check into the hotel around 5 p.m., enjoy a nice dinner in the hotel restaurant (or order room service) and enjoy being pampered by hotel staff+ overnight. When my wife and I have stayed at a hotel overnight, I always offer to make up the bed the next morning. (It’s the thought that counts, isn’t it?).
4. Visit a card shop and read/exchange interesting greeting cards standing near one another. There are some humorous cards in circulation. While you’re looking at cards, purchase the cards you need for upcoming birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
5. If there is a bakery close to your house with table to sit down…enjoy a relaxing meal. The aroma of fresh baked bread and pastries will anchor memories of the two of you being together for years to come. Large delis are also fun places where you can share meals and smell great aromas.
6. From the earliest spring until latest autumn, suggest a picnic to your husband. In an essential outline, going on a picnic means the packing of a lunch or supper basket – possibly several baskets – with things to eat and drink, and then either walking, sailing, paddling or driving to some pleasant outdoor spot…and eating this lunch or dinner.
   
   Your picnic can be as elaborate as you like. You can bring all the food and drink prepared in advance or cook a meal on site. I suggest you keep food and drink simple and bring everything prepared for ease of setup and disposal. Keep the emphasis on your relationship.
7. Let’s carry this idea one more step. If you are close to a bread factory (often the bread factories are in the downtown area), visit the “customer walk-in” area of the factory mid-evening when bread is coming off the conveyor belt. Purchase bread while it is warm and before it is wrapped. If you have time to sit outside the factory, bring a bottle of honey and some paper plates.
8. If you’re kids are staying with friends, consider staying at home with no agenda. Wake up the next morning with no agenda until you have to pick-up the kids. If you work this right with the other kids’ parents, you can extend the morning after to include other activities with your spouse.
   
   Stay tuned for more fun things to do with your spouse…
   
   Mike

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Do you have a need for a small gift for your wife that is fun and playful? Here is an idea that you can use.

My wife likes to take baths and long soaks so for this past Valentine's Day, I gave her a couple of cute rubber duckies, a large and small one. She was delighted and loved to tell her friends about it, too.

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I met, as it turns out, my wife in 1979. We had an art class together that met every Tuesday and Thursday evenings. "I noticed her the first day and wanted her to be mine." But I had just one dilemma:  How do I  get the chance to talk to her?

The art class lasted 2 and one-half hours with  a 15-minute break in the middle .  I noticed that Karen would bring a lunch bag with an apple inside. She would usually go upstairs and buy a Pepsi pop. This gave me an idea.

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