Are our work at home jobs
Cupid's little helpers?

Are you one of the millions of people with work at home jobs?  If so, you've got a great advantage over your spouse in the romance department. If your spouse also has a work at home job, send him/her out of the house on an errand. Use your special work at home lifestyle to your maximum loving advantage!

• If you have a work at home job, use your time alone in the house to spread little "I Love You's" all around the house where only he or she will find them... in the refrigerator, in their favorite bag of snacks, in their dresser drawer, suit pocket, shower, shoes, briefcase. What the heck, put a note in tons of their clothes. You've got a work at home job and you get to work at home. You've got the time! Be sure to place them in strategic places so they don't find them all at the same time.
  
• Use your work at home time to run secret errands... buying gifts or getting them engraved, for example.  Another big advantage is that people with work at home jobs also get to do their shopping and other errands when there are fewer people on the roads.
• Use your time to REST. Especially if you have children, even people with work at home jobs may find that a little rest might be a better aphrodisiac and a better gift than any order of oysters or the nicest gift you can think of. Isn't that what he or she wants more than anything else... to feel really important and special to you? If you're rested and caught up you can listen better and become more involved with what your spouse is saying to you. There's nothing better for your marriage than some really good communication and private time. But it's hard to give that to someone when you're totally exhausted and overextended. Maybe some rest for you is the nicest gift you can give him.
• Use your work at home advantage to prepare special meals or goodies during the day, then hide them and serve later. People who don't have work at home jobs rarely have the chance to get away with this since they must prepare the food while he/she is in the house to spoil the surprise.
  
• Write him/her a romantic letter. Free and simple, but so very precious. Tell him/her how much they mean to you, how happy you are that you met them, and most of all, how you can't possibly imagine your life without them. Thank them for every little thing you can think of. Make them feel really appreciated. Letters like that are saved for a lifetime. No over-priced gift store greeting card can match that.
  
• Your spouse works at an office but you have a couple of part time work at home jobs. Is there any way he might be able to, uh, get away from his office for awhile to meet you, uh, at your home office, for, uh, a special private, uh, meeting? Tell him or her you need them at home because something broke or you don't feel well or something. Alas, the surprise. You know what to do from there.
  
  

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Those of us who have work at home jobs have many advantages. We have less stress, more time for ourselves, for our kids and for our spouses, we eat better, save money and help the environment. The extra romance is just the -- oh so wonderful -- icing on the cake.