What A Swinging Couple

A few years ago I came home to find this standing in our yard...

I had asked for a free standing wooden swing for a very long while, and husband decided that its time had come.  Happy birthday to me. 

Last week husband told me to come to look down from our bedroom window because Mr. and Mrs. Dove had chosen to perch on our swing.  I watched them having a conversation; they actually looked pretty devoted to one another.  

These lovebirds inspired me to have some swinging conversations with my mate, and I've come up with a hands-on science experiment.  Here's my latest brain-child (thirty-one years of marriage and I'm still looking for creative ways to communicate)...

1. We'll agree to meet on the swing for at least 5 minutes per day.  On rainy days we'll make a contingency plan--there's always the bench on the front porch that's under the roof line.  Back and forth.
2. Non-negotiable rule:  While on the swing we must sit close enough to touch or at least hold hands, whether we. feel. like. it. or. not.  Back and forth.
3. While sitting in the swing we'll offer each other only positives (not that we ever get negative or anything).  For at least the first 5 minutes we'll give each other encouragement.  Here's what you're doing right...  Here's why I married you in the first place...  Here's what I love about you today, this minute...  You're a swinging guy because...  Back and forth.
4. On days where we can't think of anything good to say we won't say anything at all.  We'll just snuggle into the swing and maybe do some serious necking for 5 minutes or so.  Even. if. we. don't. feel. like. touching. Ick.  Back and forth.  

Yes, this is yet another attempt to live out my romantic fantasies and I do have high expectations that we'll have a swinging time each day.  But I'm going to aim high instead of swinging low sweet chariot...  I'm really quite pumped, to tell you the truth.

Do feel free to tell me how you communicate with your spouse; I'd love to hear what makes you a swinging couple.  We're only 31 years into this so we're still learning how to love each other well.  Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.