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romantic gestures

Truth is, good deeds make you feel good too.
You heard me. Set romance aside with all of its ideas about candlelit dinners and flowers. Think about what you love to do. Rock climbing? Great! Museum-crawling? Delightful! Let go of the traditional and think outside the box.
You and your partner's first date night post-baby could take place six weeks after baby's arrival... or six months... or more. It all depends on what your support system is like and how comfortable you are leaving the little one behind. Either way, when it happens, your well-deserved alone time will feel like a mini vacation.
Sometimes it's important to slow down, take a breath and realize what is actually going on around us. Especially when it comes to relationships, we can lose sight of our love in the day-to-day madness of our career-driven lives. Here are a few simple, quick things you can do to let your girlfriend know you keep her at the top of your list.
One of my favourite self-help-style books and one that I still think about every day is the The 5 Languages of Love. The book made me reflect on how I express love to those in my life, but also on all the ways people tell me that they love me too. After all, isn't it sad to think that people are telling us they love us in ways we're too "deaf" to hear?!