You can kiss goodbye to fancy dinners, holding hands as you take an idyllic walk along the beach at sunset and other grand romantic gestures if you want your love to last.
Experts now say they have discovered the key to everlasting happiness and, if your other half is reading this, there goes your chance of a fancy night out this Valentine’s Day.
Yes, being “as boring as possible” with your parter is thought to be the key to lasting happiness.
Author Mark Manson says if you want to keep those fires burning, couples could benefit from simply staying in and watching a movie.
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He told Business Insider: “If you think about it, a really happy 80-year-old couple that’s been together for 60 years, the reason they’ve been together for 60 years, it isn’t because they took all these private jets and they had their crazy vacations and: ‘Oh my God, look at their pictures,’ it’s because they were able to be boring together.”
Mark added that meaningless tasks such as “sitting around the house, talking about the same boring stuff, watching TV and cooking dinner” all help to bond a couple.
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