Yea we do it, but not once a week. Typically my husband will work 70-90 hour weeks for 6 weeks stint and we hardly see each other. Then his schedule will shift at work and he will have a few weekends in a row off. We always try to do something together, even if it’s just a night out at a nice restaurant.
When we can we try to go away for the weekend, it helps us to reconnect, spend some quality time together and relax. We only started doing this after a very rough spot in our marriage that almost led to divorce. While our dates were not the primary reason we put our marriage together, they did help.
Nothing wrong having a date with your spouse unless you sick taxpayers with the bill!!
Reality check: the average professional-degreed couple in their 40s can easily afford to hop a train from DC to NYC, buy tickets to a Broadway show, and spend one night in a hotel before hopping the train back to DC to work in the morning. Unless we want our Presidents to get assassinated on a regular basis, this is just not how things work for them. And unless we want to further weaken the already deplorably weak list of people wanting the job of POTUS, we'd better be willing to shell out for the standard AF1 transportation and Secret Service entourage that all Presidents in our lifetime have required when going anywhere. Being POTUS shouldn't mean not having a life, and if we insist that it must, then we'll have only ourselves to blame if we have a depressing choice of candidates again in 2012.