Check out activities for couples guaranteed to keep the fun in your relationship (with a minimum of corniness).
1. Playing Guitar Hero. There’s still the image of the husband clinging to his video games while the wife just wants him to grow up already, but this one’s fun for everybody. (And if you have another couple over, you can graduate to Rock Band and get your ya-yas out like The Stones.)
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2. Paintball. No matter how deeply you love your significant other, there will be times you want to blow them away. Paintball allows you to indulge this desire with no lasting damage. With arenas/fields renting the equipment you need, square off against your spouse and work out all that tension (or, if you’re feeling merciful, pair up with your sweetie against another team).
3. Marathon training. There are few greater feelings of satisfaction than completing those 26+ miles (granted, you’ll first need some time to start breathing again, but the pride will arrive shortly afterward). Why not make the commitment to run it together so you can celebrate this amazing accomplishment as a unit?
4. Rock climbing. K2 is likely outside your reach, so give your gym’s indoor climbing wall a try. Lightweight yet sturdy climbing equipment makes the experience more manageable than Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay could ever have imagined. As you gain confidence, you can graduate to scaling the great outdoors.
5. Bowling. Is there any better way to unwind? Between the fried food and the rental shoes, it’s perfect for taking a break from your daily life and enjoying some low-key fun together.
6. Tandem skydiving. More and more couples incorporate it into their honeymoons (some even get married mid-dive). This isn’t something to enter into lightly, but with a good instructor and proper equipment, it’s entirely safe. And hey, what other activity is there that so nearly replicates the rush of falling in love?
7. Camping. By “camping” we mean “the two of you alone in a tent,” not “cruising through the great outdoors in an RV bigger and nicer than your first apartment.” It’s your chance to truly get away from it all -- give the BlackBerry a well-deserved day off -- and just savor nature and each other.
8. Rafting. It ranges in intensity from Class I (essentially smooth sailing with no experience required) to Class VI (picture The River Wild, only without Kevin Bacon). Determine whether you want a leisurely drift or a white-knuckle thrill ride, then bon voyage.
9. Test driving a sports car. You may not be able to buy a Ferrari just yet -- the mortgage and student loans often take priority over luxury autos -- but you can experience one. Rent a dream ride for a day or, if you have a true need for speed, go to stock car racing school. It’s just like NASCAR (minus the pileups and million-dollar paydays).
10. Visiting an amusement park. Remember how much fun it was to go to Six Flags as a kid? It’s even better as an adult because you’re tall enough for all of the rides and your mom’s not there to tell you to stop gorging on cotton candy. Go on roller coasters until you have vertigo; then waste a fortune on carnival games so you can win that giant stuffed elephant you’ve always dreamed of.
-- Sean Cunningham