Make dinner together. Helps us to not eat out, plus it's fun to talk to each other while chopping and stirring and making good food.

We read in the same room from time to time. We play video games together (I'm the one who got him into World of Warcraft, despite all the "o how nice that your boyfriend got you into WoW" that I hear).

We try to make sure that each go out with friends a few times a week so we aren't on each other's nerves. When he stopped working 60 hour weeks and I stopped working 50-60 hour weeks, it was hard to adjust to being around someone that much. I need at least an hour to myself. Completely alone.

Walks are good too - gets you out, exercising and talking. You get to know your neighborhood / downtown / the park that way too, which is pretty cool.

Does he like to read? Bookstore trips are becoming a staple for us, especially since we're off the juice due to the pregnancy. Movies?

We both love board games, as well as the Wii, which provide for lots of fun, competition of the good kind, and doesn't make us both feel like we need to be talking all the time.

Cooking together is a dream, though I sometimes get annoyed since I am the cook and we are counter-space challenged, so sometimes I would just rather go it alone.

Walks are nice, weather permitting. Also bike rides. Again, time to be together and just enjoy life, and being able to enjoy the quiet.

We have tried reading to each other now and then, though we've only been dedicated enough to make it through one book. But I quite enjoy that.

And be sure and still have that alone time, each of you. Even if it's you on the net and him in the next room watching TV. I know I need it, to recharge and be alone with my thoughts.

And, ummm, you know. There's always sex!

Pardon the atrocious grammar in that 4th graph.

In our "salad" days, we played a lot of cards and scrabble. Also, evening walks.

(I am also the cook, and I cannot abide her in the kitchen. Especially when I have a knife in my hands. . .I get in a rhythm that she seems to disrupt, and, well, I start having ugly thoughts)

We also used to "intentionally" listen to music together, esp. classical.

I could entertain myself for hours poking around on the internet, reading, or watching TV,

Ha, this is what I do, and the husband and I are home almost every evening toether. He does his thing, I'll do mine. We'll mumble something to one another occasionally.

Before we had kids we went out all the time. We probably saw at least three movies a week. We rode our bikes and roller bladed, or hung out in Barnes and Noble for hours, or went to the sports bar for football and peel and eat shrimp.

Suggestions:

-Take turns reading aloud to one another. Husband and I do this occasionally and it's a lot of fun. The last books we read aloud together was Takedown and John Gottman's Seven Principles...
-Cook dinner together, as previously mentioned.
-Scrabble or some other game. My husband and I play Scrabble with one another on our computers, which doesn't really help with conversing or being "together".
-do a craft together like stained glass or painting.
-Home improve. Paint a room together or rearrange some furniture or do a repair. One of the best nights I've had with my husband was painting baseboards at two in the morning.

Totally true LoriFLA - I will never forget the 12 hour marathon with my wife while we removed wallpaper.

I'd like to help you but by the time we both get home from work (7pm), go to the gym (7-8pm), shower, cook and eat dinner (8-9.30pm), tidy up, have a beer, and totally have hot hot sex, it's time to go to bed.

That's what 90% of our weeknights are like. So: boring. Well, apart from the doin' it.

Last night however we got stoned and went in the halloween parade, so you know, we do mix it up. Heh.

We've been watching a lot of TV together - it's sort of lame now that we have cable, but back when we were watching DVDs of TV shows it was like a sleepover every night.

We:
- go to used bookstores.
- backrubs!
- run errands together one day each week.
- run errands nearly together occasionally: while he's at the liquor store, I walk down to the nearby bead shop; while he's at the comic shop, I head over to the shop where I get my nice soap. When we meet up, we compare loot.
- browse cookbooks together. I'm a lifelong cook, and he's fairly new at it --- but exceptionally good.
- browse Goodwill every few weeks for books and kitchenwares.
- re-arrange the apartment.
- watch terrible movies and give them the MST3K treatment, trying to crack each other up the mostest.
- pony rides. He's the pony. (Ah, a big strong back. That's my lad.)

Perhaps the nicest thing we do: surprise each other. Once in a while I drop into the store to see him, sometimes with a pretty little lunch packed up, or a trinket from the toystore. He sometimes gets an idea for an outing and drives us there without telling me what or where it is.

My husband and I spend ALL of our time together, I mean, ALL OF OUR TIME. We run a business out of our home, and the business is over the internet, so you can imagine, we are ALWAYS HERE. We, of course, have no adjustment to make to spending more time with each other (there is no such thing as more time). But we do get a tad bored once and awhile. When we do, we like to go out and catch a movie, we frequently hit a bar on Sunday afternoons to watch various and sundry sporting events. Additionally, we take classes at the local U to keep our minds sharp. We also go to the gym and work out. Of course, there is all that mad hot sex we are having, but that's mostly during the day. One of the huge fringe benefits of running your own business. Afternoon sex - what a luxury - yet I digress.

Additionally, we take classes at the local U to keep our minds sharp.

oooh, yes, shared learning! the mister and i have both enrolled in a night photography course :] it's in(s)ane how much we giggle over ZOMG HOW TEWTALLY HAWT!!!!!11eleventyone it is to be in the same classroom together... err, tho that may just be us being complete dorks.

YARDWORK!!! and/or anything else that involves getting completely filthy, then co-showering, then, um... completely FILTHY.

hee.

Glad I'm not the only one who can't cook with someone else (especially my other half, who likes to make cooking into an "OMG I nearly burned the house down and cut my finger off" adventure, whereas I'm more meditative about it).

We play a lot of music together, either at home on our own or with friends, or out at rehearsals. But the most memorable evenings for me are the ones when we just talk for hours.