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No we don't - I am away from him 60 hours during the week so don't want to spend a night away from him on the weekend. We will do it for special occasions like weddings. He goes to bed at 8 so we will spend some time watching tv but one of us usually falls asleep

we don't right now, because of our lifestyle (working + school for both of us), but I know that will be a priority when kids come.

We have instituted some other family habits and traditions already because we know that we won't just automatically start doing those things when we have a family, if we are already used to it (for us this means having a sit down dinner, reading the bible together, etc)

We try to do something fun/date-ish every week together. Some weeks it happens, others it doesn't...it depends on our schedules and what we have slated for the weekend. We also try to have dinner (sitting at the dining room table together, TV off) during the week - it's something we both really enjoy and I hope we can continue!

We try to eat dinner together and we also have certain tv shows that we sit down to watch together. Since my husband started grad school, we don't get as many nights together as we used to. We also try to go out on either Friday or Saturday evenings. Even if it's just to dinner (which it usually is).

We try to do regular dates, but not a designated date night. Our problem is that I'm a planner and my hubs is happy to go along with whatever I plan, so I get frustrated with him for not planning. We've talked about this a lot, and he's trying to get better about it. We walk to the farmer's market, redbox a movie, go out for dinner, things like that.

my husband and i eat out a lot. i mean, a lot. i think that'll stop when we have our kids. i really need to learn to cook. but we always try to watch shows together, although that may stop too once we have our kids. probably for a few years, it'll be tough, but once the kids are older, we'll make time again. we better!

Heck no. But we should! I think it would be a plus in a better marriage. Plus the grandparents / aunts would love to take care of him. We don't get him babysat much.

We try to eat dinner together every night... and every Friday (or every other Friday) or so we have a date night... something low key.. just eating out (if we are lucky we will get dessert somewhere too)... we have been having my sister babysit... she actually just hangs out while the baby sleeps.. since his bedtime has been around 7pm and he's been sleeping through the night. I think it's so important to have a date night... especially I am still on my maternity leave and I am pretty much bored out of my mind staying at home with the baby 24/7!

We need to establish something. I think the last time my husband and I went out alone, at night was in July. I am a SAHM, you would think I wouldn't have any guilt about leaving my son for a few hours, but the weekends are family time.

We've got a sitter that we use on Friday afternoons so I can get some alone time, but we need to be better about putting something on the calendar monthly and sticking to it.

We have a weekly date night every Tuesday. It started back when we were dating long distance and would meet halfway one night during the week, and deemed Tuesday that night. 5 years later, we still keep it up. We try to have one other 'date' sometime on the weekend too. But we do our dates on the cheap so we can do them more often - usually a local restaurant with a coupon and a movie rental or games at home.

No, but I wish we could. I recently told the hubs that we need one full day to reconnect - go out, spend time together, have a good meal, etc. But it hasn't happened yet. We're both still getting the hang of parenting and we're super tired but we do need to spend time alone just to feel a bit normal again.