Guide to 7 Categories of Best Dating Ideas to Spice Things Up with Your Partner!

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

– Audrey Hepburn

Dating is a way, you connect with your partner mentally with a unique way of spending time together. In search of gold, people do miss their diamonds. A person in a relationship always finds it difficult to spend quality time with their partner in the present times. For a healthy relationship, investing time with each other strengthens the bond. Here we will discuss the different dating ideas for you to spend time with them.

Objectives of Dating

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

– David Viscott

Dating helps for the following reasons:

1. Getting to Know Someone:

                                                It allows a person to have connectivity with their partner enabling them to to know about their likes, hobbies, interests, capabilities, and personalities. It helps one to find what they have in common which includes likes, dislikes, goals, etc

2. Emotional Intimacy:

                                               It builds beautiful relationships between partners merging them on a mental level. It enhances open communication, sharing vulnerabilities, and helps them heal by sharing their worst past experiences.

3. Trust and Security:

                                          It helps individuals to have self-respect, build trust, and secure feelings around their partner.

4. Compatibility:

                                          It allows people to create an understanding of their partner’s interests, goals, and lifestyles. This will help the other person to support their partner and encourage them in all their walks of Life.

5. Enjoyment:

                      Dating is an opportunity to have fun, enjoy leisure time with loved ones by exploring new activities, and experience places with your partner. It promotes happiness within the relationship.

6. Commitment:

                         Dating helps to create the background work for the relationships enhancing their bond to plan a future together. Spending quality time will surely help in the betterment of their bond

7. Self – Discovery:

                            Spending time talking about your interests with each other will let you know what your likes, hobbies, patience level, your interests are, giving a self-analysis.

How to find a Date?

Love at First Sight

On an everyday event, you may see a person and fall in love with them immediately just like those in fantasy novels and dramas. A well-known example – the epitome of love and sacrifice is Romeo and Juliet.

Sudden Realisation

You may have found someone in your closest circle as an ordinary person, but one day all of a sudden you might find them close to your heart and think a life without them will not be possible. Giving that relationship a chance will be a perfect choice. Example from a classic: Theodore Laurence and Jo March from the novel and movie “Little Women”.

Matchmaking

In those days and also in some orthodox families in our society usually go for matchmaking for their son or daughter. Even friends are matchmakers, remember the famous book “Emma” by Jane Austen. Blind dates have become the mode of their first date.

Online Dating

Speed Dating

It is an online organized dating event where two people go on dates at regular intervals to get to know each other and start growing towards each other.

Video Dating

One finds their partner on a video dating app and gets to know about each other. Example -Omegle.

Online Dating Apps

Some apps find partners for you within your city, a certain radius under your personality and expectations. Example – Bumble, Tinder.

Different Ways to Spend Time – 7 Categories

“Dating is about discovering who we are and who we want. It’s a journey, not a destination.”

Outdoor Adventures

Exploring Cultures

• Traveling to a place and getting to learn their language, heritage and culture

• Visiting Art Galleries or Museums in any city you travel to know their heritage

• Live Theatre plays to know the culture of the city and the people through the play

• Learning languages with your partner is fun. Do learn languages which are used prominently

• Attending Cultural Festivals

Food and Wine Experiences

• Wine tasting in the vineyard

• Trying out multicuisine at cultural festivals

• What is more fun than cooking your favorite food together?

• Trying different desserts in local bakeries and discussing the taste

• Taking your partner on an occasional surprise dinner dates at unique locations

Creative DIY projects

• Pottery or Ceramic classes

• Drawing or Painting Workshops

• DIY Home Decor projects

• Gardening together (selecting seeds, planting, and taking care of the plant together is lovely)

• Building a Fort with blankets together and watching a movie in a comfy manner

Activities that pump Adrenaline

• Rock Climbing activity that is set up indoor

• Zip lining in the forest or high-altitude places, especially in snowy mountains, will be a treat to your eyes

• Bungee Jumping or Skydiving in scenic viewpoints

• Indoor Trampoline fun

• Go cart racing

• Bike riding in risky and bumpy areas. Within India, Ladakh will be a good choice. To see more, click here.

Romantic Escapes

• Weekend getaway to a comfortable place for at least 4 months once

• A Beach day to witness sunrise and sunset together with your partner

• Hot air balloon ride at sunrise

• Spa day to give yourself a me – time

• Cruise or boathouse trip

• Bed and breakfast retreat

Budget Friendly Dates

• Outdoor movie date with your favorite snack

• Drive-through at night

• Visiting Farm House

• Fishing activities

• Painting date

• Making reels together

• Game Night together outside or a board game

Homely Dates – Simple and Elegant Date

• Classic Movie Marathon: Select movies from a particular director, a series, or movies from a specific era and watch them with your favorite food and beverages.
• Outdoor Movie Date in Indoor: Clear up space in your balcony or backyard, connect a TV or a projector, and watch the movie while stargazing.
• Escape room at home or Treasure Hunt: To make your dating life fun and interesting, create your own treasure hunt or escape room using online resources and ask your partner to try it.
• Travel World from Home: Choose a country, make their cuisine at home, try to imitate their culture, play their music, watch movies from their language, and enjoy their culture and tradition without leaving home.
• Spa Night: Fill your room with aromatic candles, essential oils, roses, and fragrant flowers. Give each other massages and relax yourselves.
• Book Club: Dating will be fun when people discuss. Select and read a book together or alone and then discuss which part you like the most or any criticism towards the author or the book.
• Karaoke Night: Pick your favorite songs and then sing your hearts out. Dedicate the songs to your partner.
• Music and Dance: Add romantic melody songs to your playlist and then slow dance with your partner.
• Memory Lane Night: Go through all your pictures or videos you took months ago and then discuss the moment of joy and excitement you both had and assure yourselves that your dating life is going very smoothly and your commitment is healthy.

Who has to Initiate?

This topic has always been a debate. the criteria on who has to initiate is based on certain perspectives. They are as follows:

Anyone can initiate:

Anyone can start their dating life with their partner. It has no gender-based decisions to make. If a person feels attracted to another person and they feel special and think they will click together perfectly well will start dating. They will explore their relationship on different levels of comfort.

Traditional Approach:

It was from the olden days when men usually asked women out on a date. it is to clear misunderstandings. It is a typical yet better way to ask women on a date. Women in a relationship must be treated well and she finds how men are through how men approach them.

Mutual Effort:

Dating is not a one-time thing. It is built on mutual planning, efforts, and respect towards each other. They both should select what kind of date they should go on, where they should go, and how to spend time together.

Conclusion

Dating is a way to connect with your partner on a mental level by doing activities together. It helps in building and maintaining the relationship which will provide each other’s compatibility, compassion, commitment, self-analysis, and emotional attachment. No rules on who asks whom on the first date, it lies in the hands of both the persons in a relationship to put in mutual effort by creating a steady relationship. Mutual effort, confidence, respect, concern, and interest are important aspects of a relationship.

By spending quality time with each other and prioritizing your relationship, one can create the best relationship.

“Dating is a chance to fall in love with yourself through someone else’s eyes.”