A University of Texas study found that when couples wrote about their relationships for 20 minutes at a time for three days, they were more likely to be together three months later. I think that may be too brief of a journaling time to create a “more lasting” relationship, but there is something about writing that prompts good feelings. If you both take the time to use pencil and paper, or establish an email/IM message conversation daily, it has a way of maintaining those romantic emotions.

So, jointly pick up a journal and a place in the bookshelf to store it. Then you and your significant other can alternately write in the journal and place it back on the shelf for the other person to pick it up the next day to continue the process. Or mimic the process using online tools.

Start out with one sentence and then increase the amount of writing; “I love you” is necessary but not sufficient. Just Journal.