Falling in love is not as difficult as staying in love is. Your love life is not isolated from the daily trials that life bring to you. How do you go about accommodating these factors in your love life? There will be tough times and there will be the happy ones. Couples all over the world figure out their own ways to keep their love life alive and kicking. A relationship, somewhat like food, cannot prepare itself. You have to do it. And work at it every day.

Take my neighbor Eleanor’s example. They have a very simple way of keeping the romance going in their lives. She and Frank head off for a short picnic every alternate weekend. That’s their quality time together and it keeps them connected. Simple ways to reach out to your loved one always work and when your action brings about a twinkle in their eyes, that joy can hardly be paralleled. If there are romantic survival strategies unique to your love life, how about sharing some of them with us? What other things do you think Eleanor should do to jazz up her love life? What you suggest may just click for her or for other couples reading this!