After you’ve been together for several years, you need to be creative to keep the relationship alive and the passionate fire burning. How can you ensure your relationship and more importantly, the intimacy will last? Here are tips that will help you keep the spark alive and have more fun with your partner.

1. Start Dancing

Remember the end of Bull Durham, when Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner are dancing in the living room? Get your music collection out and burn a CD just for you and your lover to dance to. Pick out the songs together and talk about which ones really speak to your physical side and get you in the mood for passion and increase your desire for your partner. Have a good dinner, enjoy some red wine and then get to dancing, the closer the better.

2. Workout Together at the Gym

There’s just nothing better than sweaty bodies working out that can get your insides smoking hot and ready to rip your partner’s workout clothes off. Sure, you’ll have to wait until you get home, but enjoy the workout by watching each other closely and flirting the entire time.

3. Read Sexy Books

Pick out some erotica and take turns reading to each other. You probably won’t get much reading done, but the foreplay will be sexy and enjoyable.

4. Brush Up on New Positions

Feeling in a sexual rut? Check out books or online sites that will introduce you both to some new positions to add variety, spice and something new to your relationship. Even if you don’t try everything you see, just thinking about it and talking about it will get you revved up for some alone time.

5. Send Each Other Suggestive Text Messages

You can flirt with your partner even when they are at the grocery store and you’re stuck at the office. A little suggestion can go a long way toward making your evening memorable.

Keeping a relationship alive and thriving takes work and creativity. However, given that most of the work can be quite pleasurable, it pays off in huge dividends to find ways to keep the fire stoked.