How to Surprise Your Partner: Tips and Ideas

It's important to work on your relationship every day, paying attention to detail. Sometimes, it can be a challenge to surprise your partner. It's important to avoid routine and monotony.
How to Surprise Your Partner: Tips and Ideas

Last update: 19 February, 2019

Finding ways to surprise your partner can be a challenge. There are stable relationships that, after years together, go through ruts.

After couples have been together for a long time, it starts to get a little boring. Routine and day-to-day worries end up taking all of your attention, forgetting the most important thing: love.

Tips to surprise your partner

Use the classics

If you’re not sure what to do, the classics are always a great option. Of course, don’t forget to leave out a crucial factor to keep the spark in any relationship: creativity.

No matter what day it is, breakfast in bed is a good idea. Share the first meal of the day together between the sheets before going out to the hustle and bustle of daily life. This is the kind of moment that can make your workday more enjoyable.

How to Surprise Your Partner: Tips and Ideas

In the same way, waiting for your partner to get home from work also works. Without warning, without planning, and without a reason, do something together. Go for a drink, go for a walk, or just go home together.

Go on a trip without a predetermined destination

Improvisation is another great way to surprise your partner. By this, we mean you can go on a surprise trip.

However, it doesn’t have to be a big ordeal. You can even go to a place you went a little while ago, or a place where your partner has always wanted to go where you can disconnect for a couple of days.

The importance of sex

While not everyone sees sex as having the same value, sex is a key factor, especially for long-term relationships. The frequencies and levels of satisfaction that both people feel is usually a reflection on the health of the relationship.

Unfortunately, it’s easy for things to get boring. Going out of your way to surprise your partner doesn’t have to feel like an impossible mission.

Talk about what you like and what you’re interested in. It’s always best to try new things than just assume things will be uncomfortable. In addition, people’s tastes always change.

Surprise your partner with flowers

Again, this one is a classic, but it’s always effective. Both men and women, fathers and mothers, enjoy this little detail. You can get them on a special day, but also for no reason at all.

How to Surprise Your Partner: Tips and Ideas

Love through food

Dinner at a restaurant is another possibility. You could make it more casual or luxurious. You could also pick a place that reminds you of some special moment you had together. 

Another option is to improvise a cooking session to make some of your favorite dishes. That would definitely make a romantic and memorable evening.

Little things that make a difference

You don’t have to spend a lot of time or a lot of money. The small details, the ones that come from the heart, are the ones that keep passion alive in a relationship. Regardless of the difficulties that may happen along the way, remember that happiness is a step-by-step process.

A phone call to say “I love you” or a voice message with a romantic note is great. Write a love letter or freehand poem and send it through the mail. Dedicate a song on the radio to your significant other, or make him a mixtape.

The list doesn’t end here! Do you have any more ideas?


This text is provided for informational purposes only and does not replace consultation with a professional. If in doubt, consult your specialist.