How to Plan a Romantic Evening on a Budget

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Donna Barnes, life and relationship coach here in New York City, and the author if It's All About You. To plan a romantic evening on a budget can be really simple if you just keep your focus on spending quality time with each other, because that doesn't cost anything. So, either look google in your area, what kind of free things you're available to do, if there's a free concert that you could attend, or if there's a museum that's free, that you know and when you go to a museum or something like that, hold hands, put your arm around each other, really spend the time together, and if you can't find anything that's free, maybe just spend a nice quality evening at home. You can certainly really just take some special time maybe watch a movie together, but that's so, everybody does that. Maybe turn off the TV and play a game with each other. You can certainly you know, put little slips in a hat of things that you'd like the other one to do for you, and then take turns drawing things out of the hat and have a special playful thing, or maybe role play a little bit. Think about your very first date, and try to recreate it. Or pretend that you're in high school and it's each other's firsts and that you're exploring that together. There's all sorts of fun, creative things that you can do to be really romantic with each other, that doesn't even involve leaving your house. So, you don't have to spend a lot of money. And if you've just met, and you're not comfortable yet at home together then yeah, google the free things in your area. And try to make it about quality time together, and not necessarily so much about what it is that you're doing, but really just enjoying each other, and make sure you hold hands, put your arms around each other, be affectionate, and rediscover what it is that you really love so much about each other in the first place. So, it's not about how much money you spend and it's not about what you do, it's always about the time that you spend together. And the quality of that time. So, use your imagination a little bit in that and I think that you'll have no problem not spending money. It's really, it's more creative and it's appreciated more when you put a lot of thought into something then when you just went out and spent money on it anyway."