Hey, we're in Jennifer Smith with Marriage Up For God helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage and today we're giving you 11 fall date ideas

Hey, thanks for joining us for this week's episode. We have a fun one

We're just gonna give you some date night ideas or date day ideas that are in the fall theme and you know dating is important

It's not the most important thing in your marriage, but it is definitely a top of the list

You know making that time setting side of time to have

intentional alone time with your spouse

It's good for all sorts of things we talked about this a couple episodes ago just about

the importance of getting alone

communicating getting on the same page

romance all of those things and so we just thought it'd be awesome to share with you 11 awesome ideas

Also, I just want to encourage those listening if you have kids

You might be tempted to put postpone some of these date ideas

To do with your family as a whole which is a great idea

But we also want to encourage you to make sure that even if you do them as a family also do them

Just as a date because it's important to get away and have that alone time like you were saying and just to cultivate that time as a couple

Doing some of these things so even if they sound fun to do as a family and you're like

I don't want to go to the pump can patch without the kids go twice and then those of you who are listening who maybe you don't have kids yet

Don't get in the habit of thinking that you know anytime that you're together. Oh, this is our date

Be intentional. We used to do that a lot. We've got a lot of time together. We're dating right?

Yeah, we used to justify all that a lot

But we want to encourage you to be intentional about setting time aside

planning something putting it on the calendar doing all the things that you need to do to prepare to make this

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