How To Stay In Love With Each Other

Want to keep the heat in your love life year round? Whether it’s with a new guy, or your extended summer fling, here’s how:
  Refuse to Hibernate. In crappy weather you are going to be spending more time indoors. That’s fine.
What’s not fine is to hibernate in your apartment and take your relationship into a rut where all you do with your man is eat take out and watch movies on demand. There are plenty of fun indoor activities you can do in the winter: visit a museum, scale a rock climbing wall, go roller skating, see live music somewhere … do anything that gets you off your couch and out of the same old routine.
  Stay Spontaneous.Part of the excitement of summer is the last minute getaways. Renting a car and driving to the beach, taking a day off to go to a lake, deciding last minute to spend the day at an amusement park. That spontaneity keeps a relationship feeling fresh. And there’s no reason you have to lose that come colder months. Sure, the activities themselves might be different, but your sense of adventure doesn’t have to be. Keep looking for last-minute get aways, and keep thinking about possible road trips.
Leave Work at Work.Blame it on summer Fridays,or beach weekends but whatever the culprit, time to leave work at work, and use your down time to relax. That means more attention that you’re giving to your man, and a greater sense of fun that you bring to the relationship. Yes, it is the time to buckle down at work, but when you’re not at work, focus on other things. When you and your man are together, make a pact to burry your blackberries in your sock drawer, and actually BE together.
Stay Responsible. There’s just nothing hot about the stress that comes from a pregnancy or STD scare. Just like we know you were responsible with your birth control before, keep up that responsibility in the fall. And if you weren’t so responsible in the warmer months, now is the time to vow to be better. Get on birth control pills if you’re not already. And if all else fails, know you can get Plan B the morning after (well, up to three mornings after actually). When you feel good and confident about your health, you feel good and confident about your sex life.