10 date ideas you can plan without even leaving your house

Movie night, but with the films you always meant to watch.Thomas Barwick/Getty Images

• There's no need to skip date night if you're social distancing with a partner because of the coronavirus, as keeping the spark alive doesn't have to mean having to leave the house.
• Insider spoke to two relationship experts about at-home date ideas, and the best practices for maintaining a healthy partnership during the outbreak.
• The key is to regularly schedule in time for yourself, and give each other breaks from constantly being together.
• Make time and effort to have dates at home, like breakfast in bed, game tournaments, or a flirty scavenger hunt.
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When couples in China came out of a month-long quarantine to combat the coronavirus, the Global Times reported the city of Xi'an had a spike in the number of divorce cases being filed.

Whatever the reason was for those cases, being stuck inside with a partner day-in, day-out, perhaps working from home opposite each other, could potentially put a dampener on the flames of romance.

With the tools for maintaining a healthy relationship being limited because of social distancing, one way to maintain the relationship spark is by creating your own date nights without even leaving the house.

Relationship expert and certified dating coach Sami Wunder told Insider: "The first thing is to understand the importance of taking time off and giving each other a break. When we write about how to keep the romance alive or how to keep date night alive, it's very easy to assume it's all about spending a lot of time together.

"But that's actually the killer of romance, and the killer of attraction."

Dr. Melissa Robinson-Brown also stressed the importance of not living in each other's pockets.

She told Insider: "Schedule some 'me' time for each person in the relationship. While being together is amazing, being in someone else's space 24/7 can start to wear on the nerves.

Robinson-Brown continued: "As you dive into this quarantine period, talk to your partner about your 'me' time needs, including frequency, duration, and mode of getting that time. Be honest and open about these needs and frame it around your needs versus trying to get away from your partner."

With 'me' time in mind, here are 10 dates you plan with your partner without leaving the house.