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Dating Your Partner Again: Why Lifestyle Couples Should Never Stop Courting Each Other

Seven years in, and Dana still made David ask her out properly — a real invitation, a real answer, none of the shorthand married couples fall into. Tonight it was a jazz bar neither had tried, a corner table, his hand finding hers under it like they were still working up the nerve. They'd built something unusual together, a marriage with room in it for other people, other nights. But the thing that kept it steady, Dana had realized, wasn't the openness. It was this: still flirting like strangers, still choosing each other on purpose, long after the choosing stopped being required. David ordered her the wrong drink, on purpose, just to watch her correct him.

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