If your mate thinks a great date is hanging out at the local coffee shop, he may speak Quality Time fluently. This love language requires a bit of planning. And a babysitter, if your kids are young. Work out a trade with friends if you have to keep costs down, but this is one love language that can be spoken for free.

Run errands together.

Go out to breakfast.

Plan a day trip to a local recreation spot, like a lake. Take a picnic lunch or dinner.

Kidpnap him from work lunch.

Go shopping or mall walking and people watch. Or readjust the mannequins in the department stores.

Visit model homes, or open houses.

Test drive a luxury car together.

Move your television set into the back yard, set up lawn chairs and watch tv under the stars.

Or set up a big screen television or projection set in the garage or driveway and have a drive-in movie at home.

Lie on a blanket in the back yard and watch for falling stars.

Have a restaurant or fast food progressive dinner (Egg rolls from the Chinese take-out, nachos at the Mexican place, fries at the burger barn, dessert at the ice-creamery.)

Roast marsmallows on the BBQ grill in the back yard or in the fireplace.

Have a watermelon seed spitting contest. (I had jaw surgery several years ago. It was months before I could spit a seed farther than about 4 inches, leading to lots of hilarity.)

Rent canoes, or kayaks, or paddle boats at the local lake.

Excavate the house for spare change and go out for ice cream cones.

Plan a weekend away at a Bed & Breakfast (Here's the web site of a great one near Yosemite CA: http://www.houndstoothinn.com )

As usual, these are just designed to get your own ideas flowing. Let me know what other fun and creative ways to speak Quality Time you come up with.