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    Mark
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    You may be in a rut since you two are living together. Day to day living makes life routine. If you two were apart then there would be more opportunity to just being together exciting or at least desirable. What did you do before you started living together? Did you go out then? What cheap things did you do before the bills and responsibilities came into your lives?

    I believe the ultimate solution is to live apart.

    Check out this TED talk about passion between couples: http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_perel_the_secret_to_desire_in_a_long_term_relationship.html

    Mark

    #47959
    memm
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    Maybe you could start thinking about what interests you in life in general? Art? Music? Sports? Philosophy? etc… the list goes on forever.

    You have to decide for yourself what in life makes you, well, live, and entertain yourself. It’s nobody else’s job.

    With an active mind even if you were a hermit inside a cave you’d find plenty of things to do. =]

    #47973
    Macintosh
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    Go on a trip, travel somewhere, even if it’s just to the next town and staying in hotel room. Make a weekend out of it, have a couple spa day together. Go out to see a movie or get tickets to a hockey game or a theatre show.

    Join a gym together, go on walks, hold hands. Play tennis together or some other sport you both love.

    #47977
    Jade
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    My fiancĆ© and I have been together for 3 years and there have been a couple lulls in our relationship where things were stagnant and boring. Part of the problem was just adjusting to familiarity and routine; in our heads we were comparing how things were at the present with how things were in the start of our relationship, when it was fresh and exciting and new. We’re also not very spendy when we’re together so there’s nothing particularly exciting about staying at home watching movies on the couch. But we recognized that saving money was important to both of us, and we recognized that relationships shift over time and familiarity isn’t a bad thing, just a different thing.

    I also had a hard time believing my fiancĆ© was really happy with me, but one day he was said ā€œthe only way this will work is if you trust me when I tell you thingsā€. And he had a point, I could go through life feeling paranoid and unworthy… or I could accept and believe his words were true and save myself all kinds of worrying. Thankfully deep down, I know I’m a catch and that any man who I choose to be with is getting a sweet deal, so it was just a matter of embracing that ideal instead of listening to my jerkbrain.

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