Have you ever wanted to learn a new language, bungee jump, or learn to fly a plane? These are all excellent goals that broaden the mind and bring excitement into your life. Creating new hobbies are ever more rewarding when you do them as a couple.
Couples draw closer together when they are experiencing something the first time. Whether you’re looking for a death-defying sport, you want to brush up on your cooking skills, or you’re seeking more romantic ideas, there is a hobby out there for you and your spouse.
Creating new hobbies as a couple helps build emotional intimacy in relationships and draws you closer together. Here is a list of 10 fun, exciting, and romantic hobbies you and your spouse can try this year.
- Attend Events Together
Who says hobbies have to be starting a new collection, taking up line-dancing classes, or exercising? If you and your spouse are the social types who love to attend events, why not make this your new hobby together?
Make a list of topics you are both interested in and choose several events related to your interests. They can be romantic ideas like wine festivals, fun events like parades, races, sporting events, concerts, special exhibits, film festivals, comedy clubs, or plays.
Whatever you’re interested in, make a hobby out of attending an event once a month as a couple.
- Play an Instrument Together
Playing an instrument together is a great way to build emotional intimacy in relationships while learning a new and exciting skill. Learning something with your spouse can also help encourage both of you to keep up with your lessons.
Like taking up a new language, it can be helpful to practice playing your instruments as a couple. Throw some romance into this couple’s hobby by having the first song you learn be your wedding song or one of your other romantic favorites.
- Cultured Hobbies and Outings
Looking for a more cultured approach to starting a hobby together? Why not make a hobby of visiting museums?
If you’re lovers of art, start scoping out the best local art museums. You can even take your hobby abroad, visiting art museums on your various vacations and scratching them off your master list. Other great museum ideas include music museums, history museums, historical libraries, castles, and sports arenas.
- Podcasting
One couples hobby that is growing more popular these days is starting up a podcast together. All you will need is a microphone and internet access. Simply choose a topic you are both interested in, many couples talk about politics, true crime, conspiracy theories, or review television series or books.
After recording your content, simply upload it to a hosting website such as SoundCloud or YouTube. Podcasting is a great way to bond over shared interests and practice good communication while expressing differing opinions.
- Extreme Hobbies
So, what is an extreme hobby? Jumping from airplanes, bungee jumping, and mountain climbing might be some of the first ideas that come to mind, but what about extreme camping?
Couples who enjoy extreme camping head out into the wilderness and see how long they can live off the grid. This means no cell phones, no electricity, and living off the land. This is a great opportunity to test your survival skills while learning to rely on and trust one another.
- Volunteering with Animals
Volunteering is a great way to spend time together as a couple. Studies show that being kind to others is the ultimate mood-booster. When you volunteer, or perform an act of kindness, your body rewards you with positive emotions that boost dopamine.
Working with animals is a great way to volunteer your time and bond with your spouse. As volunteers, you and your spouse will get to walk the animals, play with them, and make sure they are getting enough attention so that they are well-adjusted to humans and adoptable in the future.
If helping animals and spending time with your mate doesn’t sound good already, you should also know that studies show that human/animal interactions are shown to lower stress in humans.
Other great places to volunteer include a food bank, a local festival, a refugee welcome center, a museum, church, or youth organization. But, who doesn’t want to volunteer with fluffy, adorable animals?
- Skiing and Sports
If your spouse it into sports, why not take up a physical activity together? Embrace your spouse’s interest and join a local sports team or play one on one. No keeping score! Hockey, tennis, golf, boxing, bowling, and skiing are all great choices for getting physical together.
- Domestic Hobbies
Why not meld your love of DIY and home improvement into your couple’s hobby? There are plenty of things to do around the house that will help you two strengthen your bond, improve your home, and spend time together all in one go!
Refinishing furniture, gardening, homesteading (growing your own food), and cooking are all great choices for domestic hobbies. Plus, they help you foster emotional intimacy in relationships and promote cooperation and compromise.
- Taking up Astronomy
Is there any other couples hobby that can stir up romance quite like astronomy? This study of celestial objects makes the night sky, moon, and planets your personal playground… from afar, of course.
Snuggling up close with your partner and sharing a blanket under the stars is quite the date night activity. You can make this a new hobby by going stargazing, tracking meteor showers, and purchasing a telescope to get a better look at the sky above.
Spending time with your partner practicing new hobbies can help build romance and emotional intimacy in relationships. Do you want to strengthen your marriage and learn a new skill together? From sporting events and romantic ideas, to downright fun and exciting new hobbies, taking up a new adventure will help you and your partner draw closer than ever.
