Hey, we're in Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage

And today we're gonna share with you nine fun and creative date night ideas

So Aaron before we jump into the actual nine date ideas

Why don't you share a little bit about why dating your spouse is important?

Well, date night is important for a lot of reasons

Just like our relationship with the Lord where we need to get together with him

We need to open the word when you be spending time with him

We need to be chasing after him and getting into his word

and

Dedicating time to do that our marriages need the same thing all of our relationships in life needed

But our closest relationship is each other so date night becomes one of the elements that we use to

maintain and cultivate

Our closeness our oneness are being on the same page. We've talked about it in past episodes

Using date night date nights for

goal setting

But it can be used for a lot more than that just building our friendship

Building our intimacy having time to communicate and on one-on-one without the kids without other people around

It also becomes a time where we can actually

Spend time with other couples. So we're getting like adult time

I should say uninterrupted time uninterrupted time, you know, just where we're focusing on

Our interpersonal relationship with each other and so date night like I said earlier is just it's another element that we can use as a

Discipline in our marriage to grow and intimacy to grow closer together and so it's

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