Take date nights seriously.
Lots of couples have regular date nights, but we have rules for ours:
1) We don’t talk about our (four) kids, but instead about our goals for the future, how things are going at our jobs -- all the things that made us fall in love in the first place. 2) We don’t cancel. My husband has been known to stand up in the middle of a meeting that’s running late at work and walk out for date night. People he works with know about it and respect it.
-- Nicole and Erik Griffiths, Porters Corners, New York, married 11 years Photo: Shutterstock / The Nest