If you thought cheating and other forms of toxicity are the biggest challenges affecting relationships today, you need to do your homework right. The truth is, boredom in a relationship is a significant challenge that often gets overlooked. While you might think you’re okay with your partner even after hooking up on the best dating sites, nothing guarantees that the passion and excitement will last forever. Essentially, boredom in a relationship is an everyday experience. However, it can create an emotional gap if left unaddressed. This article highlights fun ways to avoid boredom in a relationship and keep the passion alive.

While your partner may want to share the rest of their life with you, there’s no assurance they’ll remain fond of everything you do or plan. Like any normal human being, they experience boredom if you do the same things time and again.

But why let monotony define your relationship when you can try different things? Ideally, the boredom is a result of your partner becoming used to your usual moves. This offers you a golden chance to pull the least expected surprise. It can be anything from buying a movie ticket, preparing your partner their favourite meal, or even taking them on a trip overseas. Depending on their preference, think of something your partner will like that you don’t normally do.

Many don’t know this, but a less exciting sexual life causes boredom in most relationships. Experts opine that your bedroom romance should be the first thing to look at if your relationship loses its flavour and passion. Similarly, reinventing bedroom romance could be the perfect getaway on how to overcome boredom in such a relationship.

There are plenty of ways to stop boredom in a relationship by reinventing bedroom excitement. You can opt to try something new in bed if you feel like you’ve been doing the same thing for some time. Once you implement your new way, boredom may become a thing of the past.

It’s normal to assume ‘decency’ when you’ve stayed in a relationship for a while. However, you should be careful because getting too comfortable in a relationship may be a sign of boredom. If anything, you should know that flirting keeps the fire burning and even reminds you of when you started dating.

Better yet, it’s one of the best ways to kick out boredom in a long-term relationship. To achieve a considerable impact, think of all the fun and embarrassing things in your relationship life and make fun of them. Remember that long-term relationships are at the highest risk of experiencing boredom. So if you’re in one, try to relive the memories by flirting and doing silly things together. That way, you’ll manage to inject more passion into your connection and kick boredom out.

Boredom normally starts if you’re too rigid to try new things. If your typical day entails the usual stuff; working out, going to work, and eating dinner, find a way to add new things into that routine.

You can opt to go out on a vacation trip somewhere far. Just have in mind that whatever you opt for is something that can shake your daily routine for the better. Even more, it should be something you’re all comfortable with. Relationship experts advise that having a new hobby as partners allows bonding. Additionally, it elevates your connection to a new level, insulating you from boredom.

Maintaining a strong relationship means putting in all your energy. This in itself is a good gesture, especially if the relationship means everything to you. Even so, disregarding your personal development can impact your relationship in ways you least expect. For instance, your partner may feel you’re too much into the relationship. This is toxic and has a huge turn-off effect, which in the long run breeds boredom.

You can change all this by focusing on yourself and injecting the same positive energy into your relationship. Focusing on yourself also means having some time off to indulge in activities that keep you mentally fit. This will allow you to break the boredom in the relationship and make things exciting again. Besides, make sure you avoid each other’s company for a while if things aren’t as lively as they ought to be. This will allow you to come back fresh.

Relationships shouldn’t be about keeping aside your goals and ambitions in favour of your partner’s. You both have to pursue your goals to avoid boredom in a relationship resulting from one feeling sidelined. If you’re in a long-term relationship, you can begin with identifying what works for both of you and how to achieve it through a shared effort.

Even better, you can plan and establish more long-term goals together. This can be anything simple, as long as it makes you believe in each other.  Doing this or even overhauling the plans altogether will add excitement and reduce the chances of experiencing boredom.

Boredom is a real challenge to many people in short and long-term relationships. It’s one of those relationship lows that can be destroyed if not properly handled. But with the few insights provided above, you have all it takes to break the boredom and make everything fun again.

If you’ve ever experienced boredom in a relationship before, try to think about what you did (or didn’t do) differently in order to change the situation and what it led to.

A 2018 YouGov poll found that four in 10 women aged between 18 and 36 have been sent a photograph of a penis without having asked for one. Unsolicited dick pics are one of the many drawbacks of the digital era. I’ve received some, you probably have too, and the mere thought of anyone else having to go through the same thing sickens me. Until now, few solutions were offered as means to solve this alternative pandemic. As Tinder recently announced its plans for testing a new AI that monitors DMs in order to cool down the creeps, many highlighted how social media platforms barely did anything to stop those same creeps from sliding into your DMs.

What if I told you that there’s a brand new solution that has appeared, one that, although not fully perfect, comes with an important revenge factor? You’ve heard of NFTs by now, and the many ways people are jumping on the bandwagon—from Cara Delevingne auctioning off an NFT about her vagina to the most popular memes getting sold one after the other more recently, it’s safe to say that anyone can try their hand at coming up with their own non-fungible token.

Zoe Scaman, creative strategist and founder of Bodacious, might just take the cake with her take: using NFT technology to stop men from sending unsolicited dick pics. Scaman, along with some help from the duo Very Serious, turned this idea into a real website. On 24 March, 2021, NFT the DP was created with the simple aim to help even the least tech-savvy among us turn dick pics into cash.

I’ve figured out a way to stop the Twitter DM bad behaviour

From now on, if you send me an unsolicited dick pic or a shitty message, I’m going to turn it into an NFT, etching it onto the blockchain with your name attached as the artist

You want it gone? You’ll have to pay me 😉

— Zoe Scaman (@zoescaman) March 24, 2021

The process is as simple as it gets: if you received an unsolicited nude, you can go on NFT the DP, pay the minting price, upload the dick pic, and start minting. Although the site doesn’t do everything for you, it offers a relatively short list of instructions on how to mint an NFT using two pieces of readily available software, MetaMask and Mintable. This process allows you to create a permanent record on the blockchain ledger of that dick pic with the name of the sender attached as the artist.

The website also includes instructions for what to do if your dick pic has been turned into an NFT by a scorned receiver—if they’ve gotten “NFTDPd.” Those instructions are purposefully less clear, with a generally taunting tone: pay for the NFT, if you can afford it, and send it to a burner wallet. “If you can’t afford it…too bad lol,” the instructions read.

While some of you might find this revengeful punishment too harsh, it is important to note that cyber-flashing is a form of harassment—yet there are no laws explicitly banning the practice in the vast majority of the world. In more extreme cases, law enforcement has used anti-harassment laws to cover it, but for the most part, the law hasn’t caught up with this phenomenon. In the UK, cyber-flashing can potentially fall within the offences of harassment or public nuisance. The same behaviour has been illegal in Scotland since 2010, but England and Wales still don’t have specific laws against it.

The same problem can now be seen with the rise of deepfake porn and deepnudes. The law is yet to catch up on new technologies and the risks they represent. That being said, the legality of NFT the DP also stands on shaky ground, given that revenge porn laws vary greatly by locality.

So, next time you receive an unsolicited nude—because, sadly, they probably will be a next time—be sure to explore your options and potentially consider revenge. You might even end up getting some dolla dolla.