Have you heard about the 30-Day Sex Challenge? A church in Florida asked its married members to commit to thirty straight days of sex. Yup.

Thirty. Straight. Days.

The idea is to make physical intimacy a normal part of connection with each other, and the hope is that romance will be re-kindled in waning marriages.

And, while I am still in love with my husband of eleven years and a month of nightly sex might be dandy for some, I must admit that I just don’t think I could handle that. Thirty straight days is a lot of . . . togetherness. Yet, in an effort to pull the spousal relationship off the back burner, my husband and I came up with a marriage experiment of our own. We are calling it the “30-Day Flirt Challenge.”

30-Day Flirt. The idea is that for one month my husband and I will make a concerted effort to flirt. Not like an occasional wink or a 2-second kiss. I mean flirting with a passion-like-we’re-in-college intensity. And the rules to our little challenge are simple:

1. Flirt-Like-You-Really-Mean-It several times every day.

2. It can, but does not have to, lead to sex.

3. The flirting can’t be one-sided. Both have to initiate and respond.

And the flirting has looked different every day so far. Sometimes it is a passionate kiss in the kitchen as the kids are yelling “gross!” and other times it’s an unexpected phone call, for no real reason. Some days it’s a rave about how handsome he is, and other times it’s . . . well, my parents might read this. You get the point. Essentially, it doesn’t really matter what kind of lighthearted flirting it is, but it just has to be something. Daily. For one month. And I can’t promise we won’t miss a day, and I can’t promise there won’t be missed expectations. But just like running a marathon is a goal that motivates an athlete, sometimes we all need something tangible to pursue.

We are on day 13 of our self-induced challenge, and I can say that my husband is becoming less and less of a roommate and more and more like a Rhett Butler {or an Edward Cullen, depending on your generation, of course}.

Up for the 30-Day Flirt Challenge yourself? Leave a comment and join in.