The Idea: Discover your flavor preferences—and your personalities—one bite at a time. This fun and simple date will have you testing snacks, sauces, or drinks while uncovering how differently you approach decisions, risks, and cravings.

How It Works:

1. Head to the grocery store. 
   Split up so each of you can buy four to five foods or drinks your spouse wouldn’t normally grab. Think weird chip flavors, spicy sauces, or international snacks. And pick up one item you know they love. (Save this one for last!)
   

2. Do a blind taste test. 
   Take turns feeding the other person a bite or sip. Have them try to guess what it is and rate it!
   

3. Talk about it!
   As you snack, talk about how your tastes reflect your personality.

   • Are you adventurous?

   • Comfort-seeking?

   • What surprised you?
     

4. Wrap it up. 
   Give each other the item that you brought that you know they will love. Enjoy your treats as you talk through the conversation starters listed below this month’s dates.

The Idea: Test your memory, laugh a lot, and see just how differently you each experience life. This one’s a walk down memory lane and totally fun.

How It Works:

1. Go to dinner at one of your favorite places.
   It doesn’t have to be expensive! Just grab a corner table at your favorite fast-food or fine dining establishment. 
   

2. Take turns telling your version of each of the following experiences.
   Compare how you each remember it—what stood out, what felt important, and how your personalities showed up in the moment. (Bonus points if you have old photos to share!)

   • The first time you saw each other

   • Your first date

   • How you got engaged

   • Your first big conflict

   • Your wedding day
     

3. Share what you've learned.
   Share what you’ve learned from each other and how your differences made those moments even better (or at least more memorable!).
   

4. Talk it out.
   Over dessert or on the drive home, talk through the conversation starters listed after the list of dates on this page.

The Idea: Create a vision board together—but with a twist. You each make your own mini board of what you want the next year of your life to look like.

How It Works:

1. Get your supplies.
   Grab magazines, scissors, markers, glue, and poster board. Set a timer for 20 minutes and start cutting and pasting pictures and words that represent what you’d like the next year of your lives to look like.
   

2. Share your ideas and themes.
   Once the timer goes off, share your boards with each other. Talk about what themes came up:

   • adventure vs. stability

   • connection vs. independence

   • planning vs. spontaneity
     

3. Celebrate!
   Celebrate how your differences can balance and complement each other as you move forward together. Talk through the conversation starters listed after the list of dates on this page.

Help you remember your love story and write the next chapter...

Remember the Beginning:

1. In the early days of our relationship, what was one of the first things that surprised you (in a good way!) about me?

2. When did you first realize you were falling in love?

Reflect on the Journey:

1. Looking back, what’s your favorite season of our marriage and why?

2. How are we each different now compared to when we first got married, and what’s something you love about those changes?

Write the Next Chapter:

1. As we think about the future, what’s one thing we can do differently to love each other even better?

2. If we were writing the next chapter of our love story, what’s one thing you’d definitely want to include?

Bonus Tip: Write your answers in a journal to document these reflections and dreams. It’s a beautiful way to track your progress and see where you’re headed!