Michelle Obama recently shared what her date nights with Barack Obama are like.
In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the former First Lady shared what she her husband like to do.
“I never could, actually. I could do dinner or a movie,” Obama said. “I will fall asleep in the movie. So it’s like, ‘Let’s pick one.’ And I pick dinner because at least we’re together, and I’m not just sleeping on his shoulder in the movie. So, we stopped doing that, dinner and a movie, like, 30 years ago.”
Obama said that she prefers simple outings instead of over-the-top date nights.
Date nights are pretty… you know, we’ve been married 32, 33 [years]. I always forget. Sorry, honey,” she laughed. “When we’re both happy about date night, we’re at home, you know? Because we are not getting dressed. We just have a nice dinner, candles lit, music, we talk…. They’re pretty basic.”
Obama also said they cut off all communication before their dates.
“We don’t talk for the whole day, because we’re in the house together all day, right?” she explained. “I mean, we work from home, and if we’re not traveling, we’re together all day.
Obama went on to say that they used formal White House dinners to keep the “spark in their marriage.”
“So, when we are going to have a really special night, it’s like, ‘Don’t talk to me. Save it for dinner,’” she explained.“You’re getting all dolled up for your man,” she wrote. “There was an unspoken ritual — he never knew, until I walked out, ready, what I was wearing. That’s the romance, those little moments in this crazy world, where we could look at each other and go, ‘You’re cute.’ Then we walk downstairs to a barrage of press, lights and cameras, and it’s like, ‘Just stay in this moment. It’s really just us. This is nice.’”