101 Ways to Make Love Without Having Sex
- Talk about what love means to you
- Tell each other what makes them (and you!) so special
- Plant flowers
- Make a handmade card
- Have deep, meaningful conversations
- Treat each other well
- Smile at each other
- Tell each other about your favourite place in Israel
- Make a playlist
- Talk about your feeling
- Find a solution to a problem
- Send a package to an Israeli soldier
- Spend an evening watching a film
- Tell each other why you don't want to be with anyone else
- Go to an art exhibition
- Support a charity together
- Sort out disagreements
- Write love letters
- Discuss TikkunOlum
- Make friends with each other’s friends
- Go to a concert together
- Learn the ukulele
- Play scrabble
- Observe the stars together
- Bake someone a cake together
- Introduce each other to new people
- Walk a neighbour’s dog
- Visit a museum together
- Give a token from the heart
- Visit your families together
- Design your names together in a logo
- Phone each other just to say "Hello" or "Good Night"
- Play cards together
- Share a facebook post that will make the other laugh
- Talk about the reasons for your decision to wait to have sex
- Go somewhere meaningful or special
- Have a romantic picnic in the park
- Tell each other your earliest childhood memory
- Send a cute text message
- Volunteer in a youth organisation/movement
- Write suggestions on improving the country to the Prime Minister
- Buy each other yoyos and play
- Play non-stop cricket with a crowd of friends
- Go hiking together
- Be each other’s best friend
- Sit and talk for a long time
- Read a joke book together
- Share thoughts
- Make each other something out of clay
- Sing each other a song
- Do the things you used to do when you first met
- Visit the elderly
- Build a stronger relationship
- Tidy each other’s rooms
- Design your ideal app
- Tell each other why you care
- Draw a picture with crayons
- Stick up for each other if you get in trouble
- Tell each other you'll always be there
- Be sensitive
- Actively listen
- Go out of your way for each other
- Design a Jewish superhero cartoon
- Tell each other what you appreciate about the other
- Run a stand up comedy night
- Write a pop song. Send it to a famous singer.
- Carry his/ her books home from school
- Sponsor each other to raise money for a cause you both believe in
- Share headphones and have a silent disco. Ideally while making a cuppa.
- Organise a fund raising committee for that charity
- Help at a drop in centre
- Read PirkeAvot (Ethics of the Fathers)
- Leave a little love note in his/her pocket
- Dedicate a song on the radio
- Learn to speak Hebrew together
- Go to a party
- Arrange a day out for children
- Watch each other compete in a sporting event
- Spend a day at a fun fair
- Support each other’s school work
- Plan a magical mystery bus tour for him/her
- Pay attention to each other’s likes and dislikes
- Take photos of your favourite places
- In chalk, draw a heart on a tree and put both names in the middle
- Learn Jewish texts together
- Send each other cards in the post
- Collect litter together
- Write to newspapers about how you would improve the world
- Learn how to become hospital clowns together
- In winter, throw snowballs
- Offer to babysit – for free - for a couple with children
- Write a short story about a couple who are choosing not to have sex
- Make soup together, and take it over to someone who is sick
- Carry pictures of each other
- Organise a sporting event for all your friends
- Welcome new people into your lives
- Watch a sunset together
- Be faithful
- Care abundantly for each other, and for the people surrounding you.
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- Make love every day with your girl/boyfriend - without having sex
Written with love by Shelley Marsh
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