Thank you Haphazard for sharing your thoughts on QT.
I have been doing some of them (we went to a museum together a week ago and I have been trying to have nightly conversations with my wife and connect in the morning to find out what she is planning for her day so that I will be able to ask her how her day went with specific questions. It is helpful to know what meetings or situations she is afraid of and then ask her how they went. We also have been going on walks the past few weeks, where we talk as we walk and it is something she has been really positive about.
Thanks again!
P.S. I agree that gifts that are not chosen with care and knowing the person are not really that great. I try very hard to make gifts something that the person will either really like, something that they will feel will help them as an accessory to something they like doing, or something that they really need (or make their life more comfortable) and maybe have said they would like to get one-day.
>43 years of marriage--My wife and I are now closer than we have been in decades. I believe that my SSM is over.