Romance on a Budget

Hi Ladies, My wife and I had a long talk this weekend about our marriage, sex life, intimacy etc... and we've come to the conclusion that our marriage is lacking romance. We've been happily and faithfully married for 6 going on 7 years, have two small kids, she's a stay at home mom, I work a normal 9-5er and we have a great partnership as far as the household duties go. It's taken some time but we've grown to learn each other expectations. But within the past few years we've had this growing problem of romance. We're beginning to feel more like roommates who care about each other than husband and wife. We're aware of the problem and we want to fix it. We both agree that we need more romance, but I don't know what she wants when it comes to romance and I told her that yesterday. What is it you think would be romantic and she couldn't answer... so my question is... on a budget (not because I'm cheap but because we're living payday to payday with little extra money coming in) what are some romantic ideas? If I could afford it, I'd drape her in diamonds, wine and dine every weekend, whisk her away on a romantic adventure somewhere, make sure she's got fresh flowers every Monday morning... But, I've already gotten the following suggestions: Hidden love notes around the house that she'll find Go for a drive just the two of us Random text messages/emails etc - which I already do Date night at home - which we did and we both sat there asking the other one, what do you want to do, I dunno, what do you want to do? Our bathtub is too small for two people to take a tub, it's the original tub from when the house was built in the 50's... What are some other ideas? What are some other romantic gestures?

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