My ex and I had a spreadsheet (we are nerds) of activities and experiences we wanted to share. We organized and color-coded everything
We would get get excited at the thought of doing those things and crossing them off our list. It was really sweet. Even if something wasn't on the list, sometimes we'd do something fun and run back to the list and add it there.
The list still exists... I'm the "planner" of the two of us, so I added a lot of things on there. Those are still things I want to do in my life.
We made up words (nerrrrds, lol) and it was nice to say certain things to each other in public that no one else would understand
We were actually super duper involved in each other's lives... sometimes it was annoying, because I am more of a loner than he is, but overall it showed a very deep level of care for one another. We'd read books together, watch stuff together, share articles, random stuff.
But anyway, having that list was always a reminder of the things to come. And of course, we'd project out many years later. Like, the list has that we will go somewhere in 2014-- and we felt no weirdness about putting such dates on there, which feels even sweeter now than back then.