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Romance tips - get your spark back

Romance tips - put the spark back into your relationship

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Once the first flush of romance has passed, all relationships lose their sparkle and passion.

And, if you don't do something about it, you can easily become strangers and problems can surface.

So check out our 40 top tips to enable you to reconnect with each other and put some life back into your relationship...

1. Kiss each other
It's one of the most intimate things you can do with your clothes on and will help to maintain and build up the romantic bond between you

2. Leave notes for each other
Get a pack of sticky notes and write little messages you can leave where your loved one will find them. We're not talking about ones that say: 'Remember to take the bins out'

3. Go away together
Sometimes, it takes some distance and time together to remind you how much you love and enjoy each other's company. Get someone to look after the kids and get away for a night or weekend, where you can just do fun things together that you can never do at home.

4. Have a power cut
Imagine that the juice is cut off for a night. This means no TV, no music, no lights. Just you, your partner, some candles and conversation.

5. Cook your favourite meals
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Well, maybe it's not quite that easy, but cooking his favourite food shows how much you care. Try these romantic recipes

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By Rob Mansfield

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mezzer, 3 months

me and my partner have been together for 2 years and from the start i felt love for him the i fel pregnant stright away and now im pregnant agin with our 2nd child and we reacently split and got back together and i fancy him but i dnt want the sex part and i dont know why and he feels like i dont want him anymore.. how do i get that spark back into our relationship?

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graysey, 6 months

So true. No matter how busy you two are, you should always find time for each other. Go out on a weekend getaway, cook for him, kiss him. It surely brings back and keeps the spark alive.

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Pesk82, 7 months

Is the only reason you like this site, Louise, because you and your boyfriend need someone to tell you to spend as night in together for example?! If it had said some things you don't do you wouldn't have liked it???? Great!

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Louise., 10 months

I came on this website to find out some tips on sex and how to improve my relationship, and from reading the "Romance tips" I have just realised how good me and my boyfriend actually have it. Almost every tip on there - we do. I think this website is FANTASTIC. So so helpful and I believe will really make a difference. So thank-you !!

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Juan Pajaro, 10 months

This article is great!

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