220) Make breakfast in bed.
221) Bring home a single rose.
222) Leave a note on your lover’s pillow in the morning before you go to work.
223) Draw a bath and light candles, then invite your lover into the bath.
224) Sneak up, give her a kiss, and whisk her off to the bedroom when she’s doing something mundane, like cooking, washing the dishes, or vacuuming.
225) If your lover is going away on a business trip, write a little note for her to read on the plane.
226) Give her a nice, long massage.
227) Cook dinner as a surprise for your lover.
228) After dinner, take your coffee or wine outside, under the stars.
229) Write a poem for your lover. Even if it’s cheesy, she’ll appreciate the effort and sentiment.
230) Put together a book of photos from trips you have taken.
231) Pick a TV show and make it “your” show. Make a point to watch it together every week.
232) If you have a digitial camera and digital photos, consider making a “couple’s website” that features pictures of the two of you for all the world to see!
233) Make chocolate covered strawberries together in the afternoon, let them chill in the fridge and then eat them together later!
234) Set up a little karaoke studio in your own home—play some favorite tunes and sing along!
235) Write “I love you” on a fogged up bathroom mirror; she’ll see it next time she gets out of the shower.
236) What’s your lover’s favorite board game? After you find out, buy it or get it out of the closet and make a night of it.
237) Get out your camera and have fun taking playing photographer. Take fun and sexy pictures of each other. Use a digital camera if you have one so you can see the results immediately.
238) After dinner, make her go and relax somewhere else while you clean up in the kitchen. Then deliver a handwritten invitation asking her to come down to the living room for coffee and dessert.
239) Learn how to say “I love you” in another language.
240) Even if you live with your lover, send her Valentine’s Day card or birthday cards through the postal system. It will be a nice surprise when she goes to get the mail.
241) Spend a whole morning snuggling under the covers. Don’t get up to answer the phone or watch TV!
242) Get a little silly! Thumb-wrestle or tickle her.
243) Have a dinner party with some close friends, and when they leave you’ll be especially glad to be alone with her.
244) Bake cookies or a cake together.
245) Put on some romantic music and slow-dance.
246) Launder the sheets and pillows, make the bed, and then mess it up!
247) Read through some trashy magazines and laugh over them together.
248) Make a picnic on the living room floor. Spread out a blanket, lay out plates and food, open a bottle of wine, and enjoy!
249) Ask her to pick out a couple of her favorite CDs. Then listen to them together.
250) Get out a book of poetry and read your favorites aloud.
251) Get dressed up in fancy attire for a candlelight dinner in your own kitchen.
252) Take out the garbage—before she asks you to! Trust me, it’s romantic!
253) Watch the nightly news together.
254) Rake the leaves, and then take turns jumping in the piles like kids.
255) Get out your camcorder and make fun home video.
256) Call your girlfriend or wife’s parents or grandparents on the phone just to say hello and tell them how much she means to you.
257) Roast marshmallows in your fireplace.
258) Make ice cream sundaes—and don’t forget to have lots of whipped cream on hand for later!
260) Mail her a romantic card for no special reason—just because.
261) If she’s in her own apartment, or even just in another part of the house, call her just to tell her that you miss her and are thinking about her.
262) Make a fun event out of doing the laundry or washes the dishes together. Turn the radio on really loud, and dance around and sing while you clean.
263) If it’s snowing, make a snowman, complete with a carrot nose and a scarf, or make snow angels. Afterwards, get out of those wet clothes and make her a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows.
264) Play card games together.
265) Go for a walk together at night, in the dark.
266) Do a jigsaw puzzle together and promise each other you won’t quit until the whole thing’s done.
267) Give her a foot rub.
268) Have a pillow fight.
269) Make it a point to go to sleep early one night—turn off the TV, unplug the phone, and turn off your email. Just focus on each other and hold her while you drift off.