Dating Anniversaries

[latteda]

How do you celebrate them? What do like to do and what kind of gifts do you think are appropriate?

 

[tatina]

The past 2 years, we went to the restaurant. As for the gifts, anything that the other would enjoy is appropriate, I think. For our first year together, he gave me the Bible I had been wanting for a while, I gave him a photomontage with the pictures we had taken together during that first year. For our second year, we said we wouldn't give each other anything, but he gave me a nice notebook (I loove notebooks) and I don't remember what I gave him.

 

[RobinRedbreast]

In the past with guys prior to my husband, just maybe a special dinner. I was never huge on dating anniversaries.

With my husband, we were legally married prior to our first dating anniversary, and our full wedding came only a month after, so there wasn't much point bothering with too much of a dating anniversary. I did however give him a cute little card And from here on out I figure our wedding will be the only anniversary we celebrate.

 

[Blank123]

first year we didn't do anything because we were in separate countries, i did send him a CD with a video i made with all our pictures from that year. second year we went out for dinner and a movie

 

[EverMoreMyHeart]

Are anniversary is on the 21st of November, my birthday is on the 15th. So we usually do dinner or something for my birthday and then something fun for the anniversary. Like mini-golf or something.

 

[somethingBEAUTIFUL]

For our one-year anniversary this past June we drove out of town to our favorite restaurant and then just drove around town there and went to the Wal-mart...that was about it, but it was still fun! And we exchanged gifts too...we gave each other cards, and he gave me a stepping stone he completely poured and made himself, with our initials on it- very sweet! I gave him a shirt he'd been eyeing but wouldn't buy for himself, and something else that I can't remember .

 

[abby2009]

any tips if my gf likes adventure sports? she's crazy when the chance arises.. but other than those times she's rather reserved.

 

[abby2009]

i selected male as my gender.. yet it shows female.. weirdnessity

 

[explodingboy]

take her out for a days hike/bike ride perhaps.. or do you need more danger in the adventure?

 

[waxlion10]

We don't anymore.
But we've made powerpoint slideshows, CD's, sent cards, etc.
It's just not a big deal anymore, though

 

[explodingboy]

2yrs and I don't really thing we've ever done much for anniversaries. The only thing I can say is that she forgot what day was before I did.. although two months later I'd forgotten as well.

I try to take her out for a nice meal every month or so, and whenever the room mate is away we'll have lots of quality time together and she'll put together a candle lit dinner.

 

[Luther073082]

Melissa and I havn't really discussed it too much. But if we do anything it won't be much. Especially since we are long distance.

 

[MilitantSheep]

When we'd been together six months he bought me flowers and took me out to a restaurant. But when it got to a year he slept all day, got up at 9 in the night, took me to the fair (which had already closed, and it had been the last night of it), and decided to go back home And I stomped around all day like a bear with a sore head because I was so annoyed with him.

 

[Luther073082]

When we'd been together six months he bought me flowers and took me out to a restaurant. But when it got to a year he slept all day, got up at 9 in the night, took me to the fair (which had already closed, and it had been the last night of it), and decided to go back home And I stomped around all day like a bear with a sore head because I was so annoyed with him.

Did you tell him you where upset about this?

Also be careful that you arn't expecting him to make all the plans all the time.

 

[MilitantSheep]

I'd made the plans for the fair. Well, I say made the plans. It was on that weekend and we'd got together at the fair the year before (actually, at the pub after we'd left the fair. But still, you get the point), so we'd agreed to go. The night before he'd been up late writing an essay, which I can understand, I'm not going to begrudge him his degree, especially since I got kicked out of the same university for not doing any essays. But I was just SO annoyed that I started being snappy with my housemates because he wasn't awake for me to snap at, for which I apologised to everyone profusely then paid for the electric even though it wasn't my turn. But even after we'd gone to the fair and it was closed we walked into town expressly to go to a pub, but he decided that he was going to go back and do some more work, so we ended up doing nothing at all. I didn't tell him I was upset at the time, we were going through a really really rough time and weren't actually talking at all, except to exchange barbed comments and I was waiting til he was asleep every night to cry. A few weeks later everything came to a head and we nearly split up, but decided to actually TALK for once and got everything out in the open. I'm never letting it get that bad again. Right now my priority is to get him up here or me down to him. I had to move back home so now we live about 150 or so miles apart and at least a five hour train journey.

 

[Luther073082]

Wow so different in Britian. I wish my GF lived 150 miles away, I can do 150 miles about 3 hours by car. I'd see her every weekend.

My GF lives 1000 miles away. Which takes 16 hours by car or 32 hours by train. (No direct train)

Anyways I think a bit part of that problem was the rough time you where going through. If you guys arn't talking much its easy for your priorities with eachother to slide a lot.

But I'm glad you guys where able to solve it through talking. Thats the way to work things out.

 

[MilitantSheep]

Well if there was a direct train (or even a decent rail service in this country...), or a motorway that led there, it wouldn't take half as long. He's in Wales which has that many hills that straight roads are at a premium, you can tell you've crossed the boreder from England when the road you've been following for however many miles without turning a single corner suddenly becomes a country lane. High speed trains only run between major cities, so when I go down there the first part of the journey, which takes me over half way, takes about a third of my overall travel time because it runs from Liverpool, where I live, to Birmingham which is pretty much our equal second city and therefore has a high speed train. The next train takes forever. Just for comparison, the Liverpool to Cardiff train (Cardiff being the capital of Wales, on the Welsh south coast) takes 2 hours direct because it's a high speed one. Lampeter, where my bf lives, is in Mid Wales and much closer to Liverpool than Cardiff is. Lampeter also has no railway station, so add an hour and a half on the bus (for an as-the-crow-flies 30 mile journey, but again with the windy roads!) onto the 5 hour train journey.

 

[MilitantSheep]

And 100 miles!! I can't even imagine that! But since Britain is nowhere near 1000 miles long or wide, it'd take the same amount of time to travel that anywhere in the world. Planes can't exactly go at 50mph now, can they?!

 

[Luther073082]

And 100 miles!! I can't even imagine that! But since Britain is nowhere near 1000 miles long or wide, it'd take the same amount of time to travel that anywhere in the world. Planes can't exactly go at 50mph now, can they?!

The US is far less devolped in terms of public transportation from European nations.

But we are very well developed in terms of our "interstate" highways and roads.

Its hard to get some places by train here, but you can get just about anyplace by car.

My GF and I generally fly to see eachother, in fact she's comming on Sat. However in July my parents are planning on going down there so both of our families can meet eachother. Plane tickets charge per person, but it doesn't really more in Gas in a car for 3 or 4 people to get in a car and drive it. So in July we will be driving to save money.

Flying takes some time, but its not the transportation part its getting to a major airport, past security, onto a plane, often connecting in other airports and landing at your desitination. Between driving to an Airport about an hour from her house, to getting on and flying to an airport about 2 and a half hours from mine and driving home its usually a 6 hr trip for her.

Population density is so much lower here its crazy.