Keep The Spark Alive: Ways to Maintain a Vibrant Relationship

keepthespark With divorce rates at an all time high and relationships stressed with today’s down economy, it’s definitely time to find new ways to keep a relationship or marriage alive and fun. Author Lisa Pankau’s first novel, “Beyond Seduction: Loving without Limits” is hitting stores now and helps readers with spicy yet intellectual advice on practical solutions for building and maintaining a vibrant relationship while cultivating life-long respect and admiration for a partner.

Ways To Maintain a Vibrant Relationship

1. Dress up for your partner.
When first dating, you put a lot of care into your appearance. As the relationship progresses, the immaculate outward package often deteriorates – they’ve seen you first thing in the morning when you look your worst, what’s the point of dressing up? Well the point is that it shows you care what they think of you. It shows them that you want to look nice for them, and for yourself.

2. Keep a daily snuggle time on your schedule.
Life is busy, things get in the way of getting together with your partner. Commit to at least a 15 minute snuggle period each day – the time of day is up to you, but make sure that you keep this time sacred and nothing gets in the way of it.

3. Do something different together on a regular basis.
Get out, try new things. Go to a new restaurant, see a different kind of movie to what you usually watch, take a short class, take up a new sport, visit a place you’ve never been before, learn Salsa dancing or sailing.

4. Put the laughter back into your relationship, it is medicine for the soul.
Once the honeymoon period is over and life settles down, a relationship lives on in the day-to-day lives of both parties. The stresses and strains tend to take over and one will worry about the other, and vice versa. Instead of concentrating on the stress making issues, find something that you can laugh about.

5. Initiate surprises.
Don’t allow the relationship to fall into a dependable pattern. Plan a picnic without telling your partner (just make sure it doesn’t conflict with anything else first!), wear something sexy, put love notes in his pocket, send a sizzling email full of promises you’ve every intention of fulfilling, etc. Surprises don’t have to cost anything, sometimes the best ones don’t cost anything more than a little thought and a lot of imagination!