A Message About Date Night
Read on the Monday, May 11th radio program.
Dear Dr. Laura, I would like to share a message with you regarding your topic from yesterday about date night.
I met my husband 33 years ago. He was a single dad with three children, ages 8, 2, and 2. We had no money or time for date nights. We thought about it often, but it just was not in the cards for us.
We were blessed with two more children together, so with five kids, it just didn’t make sense to spend money on dinner out. On occasion—typically about once a month—I would pull out my mother’s fine china or my grandmother’s pink Depression glass dishes, along with a tablecloth and nice linen napkins that also belonged to my mother, and make a fancy candlelit dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, with wine glasses full of sparkling grape juice.
After cleaning up dinner, we would put the kids to bed and hop into a bathtub full of bubbles. A date night for seven ending with two!
After 30 years of marriage, we are now empty nesters and claim every night as date night. We enjoy making dinner together every night and enjoying each other’s company.
We still do not eat out because when we do, it is often in loud, overpriced, high-sodium restaurants, and we feel our meals are better anyway.
Date night is a state of mind. It is simply dinner with the one you love, in the home you made, and you can dress up or just wear your jammies.
Thank you for all you do and for the support you give us all!
xoxoxoxo,
Jean
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