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10 Ways to Surprise Your Spouse

1. Stuff a love note in their wallet or tuck it under a windshield wiper. 

2. Change the desktop wallpaper to a cute photo of you two on your spouse's home computer.

3. Burn a CD with tunes from your dating days and include your first dance or fave song.

4. Look up the date of the next full moon and celebrate with a champagne toast.

5. Hate basketball, but your main squeeze is addicted? Despise musicals, but your partner can't get enough? Suck it up and get tickets -- the reward will be worth it.  

6. Forget breakfast in bed. Have dinner in bed (and don't worry about the crumbs).

7. Go to bed early. No books, no BlackBerry, no remote. Note that we didn't say sleep.

8. Create a cocktail together and name it after yourselves.  Or, check out our Romantic Date Night Menu.

9. Go to a bookstore or music store together, then split up. Your mission: Buy something you know they'll love. Then wrap and exchange.

10. Spend a weekend apart (substitute your best pal, sister, or old college roommate) and plan to meet back at your place after 48 hours. Absence is an aphrodisiac.

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-- The Nest Editors

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alaskancoppertop
I like to slip a card into my husband's ruck sack when he is headed out for a field exercise and tell his boss to make sure he goes into that pocket to find the card. Now that he is deployed, he knows he is going to get care packages regularly, usually with stuff he requested, but I like to add little treats, like he LOVES Dr. P, and I sent him a Dr. P chapstick "can". Our problem is that we will be celebrating our first wedding anni while he is deployed, so I am limited on how to celebrate with him!

frankie'sbabies
I do #1 quite often and i think it brightens his day! Usually i put it in his lunch bag just to cheer him up if he had a bad morning! #9 sounds fun, but we'd probably be stalking each other in the bookstore just for the thrill of the search! ha!

togatownfirechick88
#10 is my favorite! I go stay with my parents at least 2 days a week and the day I come back home is amazing!

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