FORGET THE DINNER.. GO TO SOMEWHERE EXCITING!

It's valentine's day, what's your plan? Going out to a Cinema? An eatery or you want to chill and derive pleasure from each other? Remember, The fun moments are more powerful than the bad moments. How you celebrate is more predictive of strong relations than how you fight.
Here are few tips to celebrate the Valentine's day in a better way:

• Re-ignite the passion in your relationship by doing exciting things together. Play games together, go to the beach, visit a couple of mutual friends. cross-sectional surveys of the general public suggest that problem faced in long-term marriages and relationships may be simple boredom, the lack of excitement; laboratory and shortterm field experiments suggest a causal effect of reducing boredom (by shared participation in exciting activities) on relationship quality. Close relationships are central to health and happiness.

• Ignore the pleasant activities for a while. According to a research done by experts, Pretest and post-test data were obtained on a standard marital satisfaction measure (adjusted for scores on a social desirability index). A planned linear contrast comparing the two activities groups to the control group was not significant and had a small effect size; thus the theory that any kind of activity enhances marital satisfaction was not supported as an explanation for the well-established association of time together and satisfaction. However, the other planned orthogonal contrast found significantly higher satisfaction for the exciting than the pleasant group, a difference that had a moderate effect size. This finding is consistent with views emphasizing habituation as an obstacle to relationship maintenance

• "Why would doing anything exciting have such a big effect on a relationship? Because we’re lousy about realizing where our feelings are coming from."- TIMEExcitement from any source will be associated with the person you’re with, even if they’re not the cause of it. What many people don’t realize is that consistently we take the emotional state we’re in – no matter what the cause – and apply it to the impressions we make of unrelated things and events around us.

Inspired by time.com