Quick Fix: Date Night Done Right
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Tired of being the project manager for date night? On this bonus episode of How To!, Jackie Kelley explains how to make logistics equitable and easy—so your partner can help. Plus: a tip for quickly finding restaurants when date night is spontaneous.
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| 0:24.8 | on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to Quick Fix How To's bonus episode exclusively for you, the Slate Plus subscriber. |
| 0:40.5 | On today's main episode, we helped newlyweds, Bonnie, and Vince figure out how to better communicate with each other. |
| 0:46.1 | And we were joined by Jackie Kelly, whose online videos about life with her husband are filled with what she calls marriage rules, advice on how to make living |
| 0:55.0 | together easier. |
| 0:56.0 | Marriage rules. |
| 0:58.0 | Marriage rules. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm still workshoping it. |
| 1:00.0 | Today I have a tip that I like to call what I hear you saying. |
| 1:04.0 | We literally use this last week and we're 10 years into this whole marriage thing. |
| 1:08.0 | Some of those marriage rules help couples set expectations. Others are a kind of |
| 1:12.1 | shorthand for how two people can get on the same page, and still others help manage expectations for |
| 1:17.5 | something very specific, which is, of course, date night. There's a lot of planning that goes into |
| 1:23.1 | date night. What day are we doing this? What time? Are we going to go to our favorite restaurant? |
| 1:27.5 | Are we going to try someplace new? Should we do something after dinner? A second location? If so, |
| 1:32.2 | what is that? What about parking? What about the kids? What times the babysitter need to go home? |
| 1:37.1 | All this can be overwhelming for a busy couple. And oftentimes, one partner gets stuck making all |
| 1:43.6 | those decisions. |
| 1:44.9 | So what needs to change so that everyone has a good time on date night? |
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