The third wheel in your relationship: great taste, no jealousy, never asks to come along. Date nights, surprises, weekends away and the plans in between.
Fourteen dates for ordinary weeks. Save this for the night neither of you has an idea.
When you're both wiped out:
- takeout from the place you keep saying you should try, eaten on a blanket in the living room
- thirty minutes on the front steps with both phones left inside
- one episode each of a show the other one has never seen
When you have $20:
- a thrift store with a $5 limit each: buy the other one something they have to wear to dinner
- the grocery store at 9pm, $10 each to make a dessert, loser does the dishes
- the cheapest seats at the late showing, then rank the movie on the walk home
When you have a whole Saturday:
- the town an hour away you've driven past a dozen times, lunch wherever looks busiest
- a beginner class neither of you would book alone
- a long walk to a bakery across town, and a different way back
When it's been months:
- a fancy breakfast instead of a fancy dinner, while neither of you is tired yet
- one night in a hotel twenty minutes from home
- each of you plans half the evening and tells the other nothing
When you're apart:
- the same takeout order in two cities, eaten together on a video call
- a letter in the mail with one question in it, answered on your next call
Seven is an app that plans one like these every week, so neither of you has to. The waitlist is at https://t.co/JuWCAHrZ2U.
The best trip you two take this year is the one you book tonight.
One night, two hours away, wherever the trees near you are turning. Leave Saturday at 9. At the first farm stand you pass, you each get $10 to buy the other one the weirdest thing on the table. First diner with pie, you stop. Home by Sunday dinner.
The big trip you've been planning since spring is still "next year". This one has a checkout time.