10 WAYS TO KEEP YOUR ROMANCE ALIVE.
 
Here is Suzie Hayman's (Sun Woman, 25 Aug. 2001) ten point plan on how married couples can keep their sex lives alive:
 
  1. Make your partner into the lover you have always wanted. Sex is not everything – being best friends is more important. But a couple who make the effort to be exciting in bed usually find this spills over into their relationship outside the bedroom.

  2. Research shows that couples who talk about sex are half as likely to have an affair as those who do not.

  3. Make a date with your partner, so you can lavish tender loving care on each other. End the evening by making love.

  4. Look out for "crunch" points when you may be tempted to stray. This can happen when the initial thrill of a relationship has ended. Recognise problems and discuss them. A problem shared is a problem halved.

  5. Be spontaneous – relationships often become stale because they become predictable.

  6. See your old friends and maintain your old interests. You can share your thoughts and secrets with your partner, but keep your identity.

  7. Set aside at least ten minutes a day to talk to your partner and share your thoughts.

  8. Appreciate your partner by doing something for them every day. Thank them for anything they do that pleases you.

  9. Set good habits early on. Analyse the ways in which you show your partner how much you love them – be it a kiss or a soothing word – and keep doing it.

  10. Get to know each other properly and do not hold back. Intimacy on every level is the key to bringing, and keeping, people together.
There was a rather large article with the above plan. It seems to rely on people that have been married from 6 to 13 years. It would be far more interesting if they based the data on couples who have been married for 25 years or more. I'm fairly certain that many of the couples used as examples in the article will not survive as an entity till then. (Axiompc).

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