Couple life

Life as a couple rarely happens in grand declarations. It's built in Sunday rituals, in challenges you throw each other, in questions you never thought to ask. And some evenings, a few years in, you notice the days have started to look alike and wonder when you last surprised each other. It happens to couples who love each other deeply, because routine has a way of filling whatever space you leave it.

Rituals hold a lot of it: fifteen couple rituals to start together, from the morning coffee nobody else makes quite the same way to the letter you write each other on New Year's Eve. When you want something with more mischief in it, these thirty couple challenges give you one idea a night for a month, some tender, some that end in laughter, some that take a little nerve.

Other ideas play with time itself. A couple time capsule means sealing thirty ordinary things tonight and opening them together in ten years, which turns a Tuesday evening into something worth keeping. And if you'd rather let someone else write the evenings, the 21-day relationship challenge draws two challenges each night that neither of you has read, with an album of your three weeks at the end.