7 Valentine’s Day Date Suggestions


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With love in the air and Valentine’s Day near, you might need some inspiration to choose wheelchair-friendly activities. Check out my suggestions below:

1. Cooking Together to Stay Together

Cooking together is one of those simple activities you can’t go wrong with. Plus you get a prize at the end — a tasty meal. Have your partner do what you can’t, and before you know it you’re working together like a fluid team. It feels great!

Sometimes making sweets together, like lemon bars, is even more romantic. Here is an article I wrote for Spinalpedia.com that may inspire your baking.

2. Board Games to Beat Boredom

Maybe you have terrible dexterity like me, but hey, that doesn’t mean you can’t play board games. Apples to Apples, Taboo or even Trivial Pursuit, when you’re bored as a couple and there are physical limitations in the mix, the wide world of board games offers so many entertainment options it’s almost dizzying.

3. TV Binge Sessions

With Netflix so prevalent and television show seasons being released all at once, binge watching TV series has become a thing and is a great activity to do as a couple. From HBOGo to other on-demand options, there are excellent TV shows everywhere to watch; it’s almost like going on a vacation together … almost.

4. Do Lunch

Becoming a regular at a restaurant is a great way to get good service, and going together as a couple is just as great. I love going to Indian food lunch buffets with whoever I’m dating. It’s  nice having a food/restaurant tradition together. It’s something you can do in spite of any disability.

New Mobility’s contributing editor Bob Vogel, a para who lives in the Tahoe-Sacramento region of California, is all about the outdoors. He adds his dating suggestions to the list:

5. Walk the Dog

Dogs are the most amazing common ground. Just take your dogs for a walk and there’s no awkwardness, you’ve got something to talk about, you’re set. If it turns out they’re not a dog person, at least you know up front there’s no future.

6. Go Ice Skating

This is totally an accessible dating option where I am because we have ice hockey teams that use the sledges. This means a lot of ice skating rinks have hockey sledges we can use. A bunch of places in California has these sledges, but you’ll want to call your local rink first.

7. Handcycling, Mountainbiking or Even Just Hiking

It gets you outdoors doing something fun and gives you lots of opportunities for conversation. I’ve always liked activities like these a lot better than going to a movie. To me a movie is the worse date possible because you’re not talking, you’re not getting to know each other.

What dating activities would you add to the list above?


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