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When it comes to date nights, most couples find themselves in a rut. It seems to always be the same. Dinner; A movie; Dinner and a movie. After a while, the creativity and the “new” tends to disappear. After all, there are not many ways to add something new to dinner. Perhaps this is happening to you. If it is, are you looking for a way to spice up your date nights? Then perhaps you should consider the benefits of replacing your traditional date nights with romantic travel adventures.
The Benefits Of Replacing Traditional Date Nights With Romantic Travel Adventures
Whether you are in a rut or not, there are a number of ways that replacing date nights with travel can change both your relationship and your life.
The most obvious of these is the fact that exploring new destinations together will create new and exciting memories that most other couples don’t experience.
Trying those new things together creates unique shared experiences that will last for years, if not the rest of your life.
Those experiences tend to be something that you will reminisce about together. After all, stepping out of your comfort zones together has a tendency to build stronger connections than doing something you’re both comfortable with.
Building those stronger connections in this way creates a deeper intimacy that strengthens a relationship in such a natural way. It’s these shared experiences and deepened connections that lead to a significant change in your relationship. They can also change you as individuals, leading you to grow as individuals as well as a couple.
Tips for Replacing Traditional Date Nights With Romantic Travel Adventures
Did you know that according to the Omaha World Herald, your typical American couple spends $159 USD on average for each date night? With most couples having a date night either every other week or every weekend, that’s an average of $318-636 USD a month or $3816-7632 a year. You don’t really think much about it at the time, but it adds up fast.
Given that information, it should be fairly easy to use these numbers to properly budget for some romantic trips in place of the typical date night.
Normally, when I mention this, most people think of these extraordinary trans- or intercontinental trips. Although it can be, it doesn’t have to be. A romantic travel adventure can be as simple as going to the next town over or pretending you’re visiting your town for the very first time.
Methods To Help You Budget For Your Travel Dates.
There are a few simple methods that could make it super easy to replace at least some of your traditional date nights with romantic travel adventures.
The first and simplest is to replace all of your date nights in one month with 1-2 travel adventures. If you travel cheaply and relatively locally, $318 USD can be more than enough for a day or two for a couple. If you want to go a bit farther and are willing to search for cheap flights, $636 USD is a viable amount for 2 depending on where and when you want to go. There are many ways to keep things cheap as well as many books that can help.
Second, you could skip 1-2 date nights a month and set that money aside for a travel date. That would allow the average couple to comfortably travel a bit once every 3 months or take a bit bigger of a trip every 6 months.
Third, you could combine the two. This will allow you to either take longer trips or possibly even those extravagant trips most people picture when I talk about this.
However, each person’s finances are different. Your budget will probably look different from everyone else’s. That’s why we’re using the average for this example.
Using Your Budget To Make A Plan
After finding a budget that works for you and your partner, the fun stuff begins. For each travel date, you should sit with your partner and talk about what interests you and what you are hoping to get out of this trip for your relationship.
Only after that conversation is had should you start looking at places to go. Sometimes you will start by looking at destinations that align with the outcome of that conversation. Other times, you might start with certain activities or experiences that cater to your relationship and the goals that you share with your partner.
Whichever you choose, just make sure that your focus is on your relationship and using the travel to deepen and strengthen it. Travel is exhilarating, and it’s easy to get swept away by it, losing the point entirely. So go into it with intention and remember that there are always ways to save money while travelling.
Returning Home
It’s much easier than people normally believe to start replacing date nights with romantic travel adventures, and the benefits are outstanding.
Yet it’s not just the travel that will benefit your relationship, every step of the process will.
Sitting down to talk about goals will help you find the page on which you can both meet. That combined with sitting together to decide on a budget will open you up to hard conversations. Planning and going on a trip together can reveal so much about each other. Especially when things go wrong and travel plans change. How people react to something can show you part of who they are.
So use travel to take your relationship to the next level by replacing date nights with romantic travel adventures.
Until next time, stay authentic, stay Nomadic, and let the world inscribe itself upon you more than you inscribe yourself upon it.
