Romantic Dates

[Goddess_Mother]

I miss romantic dates.  One of my co-workers said this earlier today.  And I would have to agree.  I miss getting dressed up and going out on a date with someone I am crazy about.  I know that it is mostly my own fault that date nights with my beloved have gone to the way-side.  Part of it is because I was always the one that made sure we went out on dates every Friday night.  Then we went through a rough patch and we stopped doing it.  I think it had kind of fallen away before that though because he was always complaining how we didn't have any money to do this or that or that our finances were generally tight.  But why does  it have to be up to me to keep the romance in my marriage?????  Shouldn't he sometimes take the initiative and scheme something up?  I've done that before.  I made reservations at a restaurant mid-week and told him to meet me there at a certain time.  It was nice.  It isn't that there haven't been times where we have gone out to dinner just the two of us, but it is so often the mind set, ya know?  Most of the time I am so driven and focused on everything I need to get accomplished in my roles as a mom, student, friend, neighbor, and employee that I forget that I am also supposed to be his sexy wife!  I love my man, but life is messy and life is real and life is so in  your face sometimes.  It is hard to remember that the stinky, unshaven man that is beaming from ear to ear to see me when I get home is the same guy that I made out with at the park not too very long ago.  Why does that sound like some long-lost fairy tale?  Why does that sound like something that I dreamed of?  I think because so often he is also in that role of provider and protector and father.  I guess it works both ways and the only way to get back those romantic dates is to get our heads together and on the same track (of being romantic) at the same time and making the effort and making the time - to be romantic with each other.