6 ways to have a special Christmas with your partner

Christmas alone with a partner can be a good alternative for those who could not decide whose relatives or friends to go to. Use the holiday together as an opportunity to set a new tone for your relationship and get closer. We've put together ways to make Christmas with a partner special. Here are tips for couples who are celebrating this day together for the first time, and for those who have been in a relationship for a long time and want to diversify the New Year holidays.

1. Discuss expectations
The best way to make the holiday as comfortable as possible for both of you is to tell what you expect from it. Perhaps you love this day as much as the New Year, and the guy does not consider Christmas a significant date at all. Or he is used to spending this evening at home, and you are walking around the city or in a bar.

Talk about gifts: whether they are needed or not, and how big: a nice little thing or something serious and valuable. Be ready to make concessions and create a completely new holiday format for yourself.

2. Announce your relationship
If you are ready to go public with your relationship, but somehow there was no reason, do it on Christmas.
Agree on how you would like to communicate your status: post a joint photo on social networks, introduce your partner to your friends, tell your parents about it.
A joint holiday can give rise to a new stage in your relationship. In addition, if you celebrate this day with such an important step, you will already make it special.

3. Combine traditions with each other
You don't have to spend Christmas exactly the way your families do. Borrow one favorite tradition - a dish that is cooked in your house every year, or a special ritual. So you save that special festive spirit that you are used to from childhood.

Use Christmas as an occasion to get to know each other better: exchange traditions, tell stories related to this day.

4.Start a new tradition
The first Christmas together is a good way to create a new common ritual that you will follow every year. You can come up with it yourself and connect it with the history of your acquaintance or other significant events for the relationship. Or borrow a New Year's tradition from some other culture.

A holiday spent together can give you a new meaning of Christmas and change your attitude towards this day.

5. Learn something new
Stepping out of your comfort zone together will strengthen your relationship and make Christmas a memorable one. Never been on skates - go to the skating rink. Participate in a charity evening, sign up for a dance or a cooking class. Find something that you have long wanted to do, but did not dare. It’s good if this is a new experience for both of you - you will feel equal and add emotions to the holiday.

6. Write memorable letters
This could very well become your Christmas tradition. Write down the best things that happened to you last year. Let this concern only your relationship, and not life in general. Record what you would like to remember, for which you are grateful to each other and to yourself.

You can read these letters or keep them secret to get them after a while. It is not necessary to keep them until the end of the year, open them for the anniversary of an acquaintance or just at the moment when you have difficult times. Such messages will remind you of what was good between you and what emotions you have for each other.