It’s simple: celebrate! Celebrating a relationship’s milestones in a meaningful way combines two of the most important ways to become – and stay – happy: expressing gratitude for what you have, and doing new things with your partner.
Start Small
In addition to the annual celebrations of your relationship, make sure you’re taking time out on a more regular basis to acknowledge what you have.
This might include an unbreakable weekly date to just sit and talk about how you’re doing, what you’re thinking and feeling – this kind of connection time can get lost between two busy lives – or establish one night a week or a month to do something new. Try making a new recipe from scratch, playing a new board game, or trying a new sport. (Whatever you do, don’t forget to toast!)Pick A Day, Any Day
Who cares if you’re not even married yet? An anniversary can be the celebration of something amazing happening – it doesn’t have to be your wedding day. Celebrate the day you met, the day of your first date, the day of your first kiss – or, first hook-up (maybe it was the same date, anyway!). Or, choose another day that means something special to you – like the first time you got over a major fight, or said “I loveyou” – and keep the occasion between the two of you, for extra-specialness. Having more than one “anniversary,” and celebrating in different ways, is a great way to add reverence – and fun – to the passing days and years of your relationship.
Go With a Classic Gift – Or Do Your Own Thing
A present for a special occasion doesn’t have to involve nice jewellery, or even be expensive, to be great and appreciated.
Go the sentimental route, and frame the ticket-stub from the terrible movie you saw together on your first date, or something else you have stashed away. Surprise your guy with a visit back to wherever it was you met or had an important date, and recreate the moment, or pick up on the things your man says he wants to do “someday” and make a real-life plan. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you do it.