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#348802 11/20/99 07:53 PM
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My husband and I try to get away a couple of times a year for a long weekend, to be alone together. We find that we need to get away from home so there won't be any interruptions. Sometimes we go to a bed & breakfast, or a honeymoon cottage, camping, or just a motel somewhere nice. We get to sleep in, spend a lot of time making love, talking & listening to each other, and just having fun together. This is wonderful for our marriage relationship! We just began doing this a few years ago and wish we would have done it earlier in our marriage. I think it would have helped us tremendously. We need that special time alone together, away from the pressures of life, to focus on our relationship.

#348803 11/21/99 06:59 PM
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Yes yes yes! My H and I have been married for three years. No kids. We try to go away on a ski weekend every winter. It's fantastic! Time away together, no phones, no work, no paying bills or balancing the checkbook, is very very important.<P>And these little vacations keep the fire burning long after you get home!

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Yes!!! This is one of the best ideas; my Husband & I (married just 6 months now!)take these little mini-trips- and have ever since we started "doing steady" in our relationship... Our 1st trip was a St. Patrick's Day weekend- we were only a few months into our R, spent the weekend in a remote romantic country B&B, near Durango, Colorado- visited Mesa Verde Indian Cliff dwellings, had a great St. Patty's dinner at a little "hole in the wall" brew-pub/pizzeria, and rode the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad on it's Winter Excursion Tour- still lots of snow-- it was so beautiful- and such a romantic trip!!!!! It was during this weekend trip that we fell in love!

A year later- we took almost the same trip- down to Durango, rode the train and stayed at the Historic Strater Hotel in downtown Durango. Only this time- we got married!-- on a stop over high up in the San Juan National Forest, along the Animas River, under a big ol' pine tree..... It could not have been any more perfect!!!

My H had made all the reservations on Wednesday PM while I was at school- even had Chocolate strawberries and champagne delivered to our honey moon suite.... **( we were originally supposed to be going down for the weekend just to pick our wedding site and visit with the clergy- but I had jokingly told him that I wanted to go ahead and get married while we were there- because the site I REALLY wanted- at the Cascades, would not be available for our June wedding date... He took it to heart and made it happen!)***

We still try to take a long weekend at least every 2-3 monthes- with our hectic schedules, family and kids- its great to have even just a couple of days of JUST US.... Keeps us from letting everyday life invade and completely take over our marriage. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I wouldn't trade it for the world...the time I have alone with my sweet H....


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Are your M stories posted somewhere? It's inspiring to see posters who were registered in the previous century <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />(LOL) still recovering and posting.

You are a blessing to those of us who registered recently.

Thanks,
Ace


FWH/BW (me)57+ M:36+ yr.
4 D-Days: Jun-Nov 06 E/PA~OW#2 (OW#1 2000)

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