It Takes Two to Tango

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Hi, I'm Michael!

And I'm Violet!

We're married.

Pictures from our 1-year anniversary

 And we're excited to start working on this blog together. We created this blog for two main reasons:

1. There aren't many websites with good dating suggestions for married couples (except, of course, the lovely Dating Divas and Love, Actually blogs).
2. We couldn't find any dating blogs that consistently have the man's perspective in the relationship.

This second reason really bothered us. Just like the old phrase "it takes two to tango," it takes two to date, and we wanted to show both perspectives in an actively dating couple. The two of us switch off every week on planning dates, and we plan to switch off every week in keeping up this blog as well.

We have had weekly dates since about three months before our wedding, and we have a fairly specific set of rules for ourselves:

1. We have a date night every week. No exceptions.
2. We switch off planning the date. This week Violet is planning it, next week Michael will plan it, etc.
3. The person planning the date must ask the other one out, even if they already know what the date is. 
4. Our date nights have to be something we wouldn't just do anyway. This doesn't mean our dates can't be simple. For instance, once we had a very busy week and our date was just to read a book and watch a TV show. But in a week where we were doing that all the time, it wouldn't count. There has to be something special about our activity to set it apart from the rest of the week.

These are the rules we've found work for us. Feel free to use or ignore them as you please, though we'd love if you would all have date nights as close to once a week as possible. :D

Also, we are on a very tight budget, so most if not all of the dates we post will be free or extremely cheap (though some of them may be saved up for).

Anyway, we hope this blog will be helpful to you! Feel free to borrow and adapt from our dates as you wish. Of course, we would really appreciate you linking back to us whenever you use our ideas on blogs or elsewhere on the internet. :)

~Michael & Violet