Tag: romantic gestures

Hollywood has us believing that grand romantic gestures are what love is all about. Having dinner on a private yacht sailing down a moonlit river would make for a pretty romantic evening, but that’s out of the realm of possibility for most of us, unfortunately.

This week we’d like to talk about appreciating the small romantic gestures in your marriage. In fact, a study released last year of over 5,000 people on enduring love, funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, revealed that it was the small gestures that had the largest impact on lasting love.

We live in a world where we are constantly bombarded by images of over-the-top romance. We see movies where someone buys their girlfriend 1,000 roses or rents out an entire stadium to prove their love. Where every day involves gifts, breakfast in bed, and mixed tapes of our favorite songs, but honestly how realistic is this image? We often don’t see the smaller romantic gestures in our daily lives and only appreciate the grandiose. It is time to get realistic about romance!