JFF -Candle Lit Dinner or Night Out?

NIGHT OUT! No dishes, no kids, and I get to dress up for a change. I'm really not interested in a romantic evening at home, because something always goes wrong and adds distraction.

I wouldn't know......never really had either :(. Married too young...too many kids....husband has horrible work schedule.

Guess I would like night out...no way could I enjoy a night at home unless a house cleaner came in before so there were no distractions of me needing to tidy up.

My romantic side was beaten to death years ago by my pragmatic side, then tossed in the alley and left for dead:

Definitely 'night out'. NO kids around, no dishes to do.... If I could pick a 'date' with my guy tonight, I'd suggest the gourmet cheese place for some yummy cheeses, warm olives, baguette and a good pale ale --no, I haven't been thinking of this at all *really* ;)~ (sarcasm here)... and then home to watch a funny dvd or something.

Neither.

I'd like to go sailing, shooting, diving, surfing (summer), snowboarding (winter), rappelling, zip lining, something ... With a backpack full of food to eat as we play. :)

A night out. A candle lit dinner and a bath would mean that my kitchen is now a mess and that I had to clean the tub first. It would never occur to my husband to clean up his mess or clean the bathroom first.

I've never been one for the whole movie, dinner out etc. Never been my style.
What I love is a great day out of the house going somewhere like Disneyland where I can forget about everything else and just enjoy time with my husband and family. Being able to just talk about whatever. Splurging on a special treat (or two!). I don't have to clean up the dishes and the bathrooms are cleaned by someone other than me. Getting to splurge on a little something special for myself while we're there. In fact this is what we just did on our 17 year wedding anniversary. We even had a friend of ours along that we don't get to see often that was free that day. It was the best way to spend our anniversary! It was magical and so much more romantic to me than the other typical stuff.

Night out, no question. But honestly (just in case my husband is reading this), if you make it so I don't have to clean *anything* up and pour me about two glasses of wine, I'm ... you know ... "easy."

I would like to be surprised by having a candlelit dinner, etc. Honestly though - I'd take either if it was planned by anyone but me!!!

Since I haven't had a date night OUT in wayyyy too long, I would say night out with the whole shebang! Need a night away from the kiddo!

Night out. Dinner, drinks.. We are not the movie types... Prefer to be doing something more social and talking to each other.

We made date night a priority years ago and we still do weekly date night... 25 yrs.

No question... Night out!! I have a 50 year old kitchen, a tiny dining area and a tiny bathtub (I'm not a big bath person anyway). I'd rather not contend with doing dishes.

My nice romantic night out with my husband would include a nice dinner and maybe a nice drive out to the coast to catch the sunset.

I am not romantic at all..Sorry!
But I would LOVE IT if my husband made dinner and I didn't have to do one thing (like tell him how to cook the broccoli, help set the table, help cook even a LITTLE bit), we all sat down to eat without soccer playing on the TV, HE cleans up dinner, lets me go and read by myself while he takes the kids outside to play, and then HE puts them to bed.
I swear, if he did that, it would be Cirq de Solei in our bedroom once the kids went to bed.
L.

I prefer doing a candle light dinner at home for My Love.

I bought some candle stick holders at a valentines day sale. I bought a dozen of them. I recorded a yule log fire with Christmas music at Christmas time. I found some white candles and red candles .

I have some "blue rose" plates (remember the Legend of the Blue Rose?) and some linnen napkins (White with a dark blue border). Then I have blue roses in my garden with a strong damask fragrance.

The dinner: I buy what my wife happens to like at the time (meat) and make a chef's salad. I have a fruit bowl with the sliced fruits in season with a dash of fresh squeezed lemon (from my lemon tree) and a bit of lemon zest. I like to use boysenberries, blackberries, raspberries and tree fruit from my garden if possible.

I set the table with an antique lace table cloth. The table is an antique dark oak table. I set two of the heart candle stick holders in the center and six heart candle stick holders on the out side edge of the table. I make two flower arrangements of fragrant roses from my garden and put one on the left and right of the place settings. I use the blue rose plates.

I turn on the TV and play the yule log recording with no music and turn on my CD player with romantic music. After dinner and desert, I give my wife a warm oil foot massage unless she wants a full body warm oil massage. I know the fragrance she likes and I use her favorite fragrance in the oil.

That's how I do a romantic dinner for my wife.

Good luck to you and yours.

Night out!

Actually we had our first night out in well over 18 months two weekends ago and it was great! We really needed it... all dressed up, nice dinner out, drinks with friends afterward. We were home at a good hour, so it wasn't a late night, but it was nice to be out as a couple.

If you go out to the right restaurant, you still get a candlelit dinner.
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ETA: But like Riley, I too, would prefer to do some activity and eat out as part of the other activity. Fun stuff + no cooking/dishes. Can't beat that!

Well, the beauty of being divorced (if there is such a thing) is having no kids every other weekend. So my husband and I go out a lot on the weekends our kids are with our exs. I LOVE to go out to dinner and a movie. We go every single weekend...the weekends we have the kids (see kid movie or PG13) and the weekends we don't (we see what we want). We don't ever go to a "nice" restaraunt tho. I would like to dress up and go out somewhere nice, but I don't want to pay the big bill for that! LOL! We are trying to pay back some taxes so now we are going to be cutting back on our outings, eating more at home and renting movies from Redbox. So I see a lot of candlelit dinners and a movie at home in my future. =)

Night out!
A great movie with popcorn and dinner out (pizza, wings, Chinese or Thai - any of it's good)!
I love being waited on for a change.
No pots to scrub or dishes to load.
I do love to cook but I'm doing it all the time - so I have no romantic feelings about the kitchen at all.

night out vs candle lit dinner = night out

nigh out vs candle lit bubble bath = bubble bath

I do really enjoy getting dressed up and going out for a nice dinner, but do prefer the candle lit dinner at home. There's just something about a man in the kitchen...

I love the impromptu dancing in the kitchen and I love to do a chocolate/almond bark dip with strawberries!!!

Now I'm thinking about plans for tonight