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Date Night

Date: May 26 2010

Themes: Romance

Grammar: You're vs. Your

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When you are with the same person day in and day out, it is easy to fall into a rut. Married couples develop routines together that can be comfortable and cozy, but also dull and boring. With kids, a house, work and bills to worry about, it becomes even harder to keep the romance from dying.

Some couples try to set aside special time to go out together and do the kind of fun, romantic things that helped them fall in love in the first place. That’s the idea behind Date Night, a new romantic comedy starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell. But in the movie, the couple’s attempt to spice up their relationship takes a dangerous, and hilarious, turn. Find out if Devan and Jeff plan to spice up their night with Date Night.

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Devan

Jeff

Devan: Do you think that Tina Fey is foxy, Jeff?

Jeff: Oh yeah. Totally. What about you?

Devan: Oh yeah, I think she’s awesome, and I really want to go see that new movie Date Night that she’s in with Steve Carell. Have you heard about this?

Jeff: Me too. What a duo.

Devan: Yeah. We could have a date night to go see Date Night. I think that movie just looks funny because it’s about a married couple that’s in a rut and they wanna…

Jeff: Need a spark in their relationship.

Devan: Yeah, they want to spice things up ‘cause they’ve kinda got into a rut, you know, like how a lot of marriages are when things get dull. But then it ends up turning into this huge dangerous fiasco because they like get involved in a case of mistaken identity with these burglars or something. But yeah, it just looks really funny. But it also kind of brings up that whole point of what do you do to keep a romance alive? Like how do married couples…how do they keep the spark going after 20, 30, 40 years? I mean I know your parents have been married for a really long time. What’s their secret?

Jeff: Well, I notice they’re fairly independent, and maybe that makes them enjoy the time they do spend together.

Devan: So you think that their time together is better because they spend a lot of time apart?

Jeff: Yeah.

Devan: That makes sense.

Jeff: I don’t know if I really want to get into the other details about how they spruce their relationship up. Thanks for asking though.

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Discussion

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Devan and Jeff both think that Tina Fey and Steve Carell are hilarious, so they’re excited to go see their new movie, Date Night. The movie is about a couple that tries to spice up their boring marriage by going out on a special date. But a case of mistaken identity turns their date night into a fiasco.

Devan wonders what couples that have been together for many years can do to keep the romance alive in their relationship. Jeff thinks it helps if both people in the couple are independent. If they enjoy spending time apart, then the time they spend together will be even more special.

What else can couples do to keep the spark going in their relationship? What do you think are the keys to a happy marriage? Have you ever fallen into a rut in your relationship?

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gorci

Serbia and Montenegro

I think that when you have kids, everything is different.You dont have a lot of free time, becouse you have a lot of duties about them.Then everything function very well and when we decided to go out without kids, we have really special DATE NIGHT.So, life is completely filled.

ciccleo

Brazil

I think it's important each one keeps an independent life, working, studying, going out with friends, practicing sports… it's not a good idea to stay together all the time and talk about each single problem. But you do have to spend some time together and plan it to be fun you are always kind of busy.

I felt into a rut with my boyfriend because we hardly ever saw each in the beginner of our relationship and we use to see each other in the same places and do the same things cause we were always busy with college and work. So, we decided to plan nice things to do more often, and now we are happy. And we are still working on nice things to do to keep the spark.

mari mina

Egypt

I think that finding the right person is a dangerous task and it takes much time. According to our egyptian society couples must take a time of engagement before they married in order to know each other well . It may take 2 or 3 years at least .

take it advice " If your new lover fails to establish eye-to-eye contact, is offended, evasive or reacts in a behavior that is not consistent with positive communication, this may not be the right time, or the right person for you. Don't try to understand the rejection, just recognize it."

smart2022

Saudi Arabia

oh, i like date night (:

Ahshan

China

a single apark can start a fire,ao it is nice to spice up your life with your partner once in a while,

and you should never leave your partner ,especially in a fire!

shahriarheydari

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

you can keep your relation always on top of pike of love , if you already found some one who has what you imagine in your dreams .I could never found it … did you ?!

candy_2050

China

our relationship is falling into rut :) boring marriage

branden

South Korea

That may be a serious problem,

Tha couples always try to respect each other and to make a new atmospehre between them.

Lex.xu

China

First thet should love and trust each other!

they would keep good relationship even no special things happened!

kelly_abd

China

in china i can say that almost every couple has this kind of problem but they won't be care about it …maybe they care but they can just ignore it coz it's normal to have a boring marriage in their opinion~