Trauma has a profound impact on relationships and intimacy. The very strategies people develop to help them survive the trauma usually interfere with healthy intimate relationships. After all, there is no intimacy without vulnerability and after trauma, survivors try to avoid feeling vulnerable as much as possible.

It is hard to understate the importance of dates in a romantic relationship. Dates provide vital and protected time for partners to connect.

Read on to get creative date night ideas for all budgets and troubleshoot the most common barriers that get in the way of date night.