Are you eating dinner with my DH on weekends too because this sounds very familiar?!?!??! Here is something I have learned to do - when you get to the point in the conversation with the back and forth when you are about to bang your head on the window, suggest somewhere he hates. I always do this. I mentally catalog places that he thinks he has gotten food poisoning from, found a hair in the food, has terrible service, or if he has just recently been there for lunch or something and won't want to go back. THEN when we go back and forth "you decide, you decide, no you decide, but I don't care you decide, I dont' want ot decide, but I don't know, etc." THEN I say "Ok, I would really like to go __________" And then he makes a face and says "oh. I really don't want to go there." then I say "OK, well I tried so it's your turn to pick somewhere."

I can't believe he hasn't figured out I am doing this on purpose yet.

Me, I'd pick the most expensive place I like every single time.

lol that reminds me of my dh! he's a very picky eater and doesnt like to try new places all that often, but I love to try new places, so anytime that "you pick, no you pick" stuff starts up, I suggest somewhere new and he'll say nooo and i say well you said I could pick so now we are going! and then he gives in lol. Maybe you can be on the lookout for new places that are about to open, or places you've never had before, or even look in the phone book and just pick a place and have a list of restaurants to choose from when the back and forth bickering starts up.

tofurkey - tell you DH on Tuesday that you will be getting dressed up on Saturday and at 6PM you will be sitting at the kitchen table waiting for him to tell you to get in the car and take you to the restaurant that he picked out and tell him that if you have to wait more than 15 minutes he is in big trouble - that way he has 4 days to pick a place and make reservations - tell him he needs to pick a place and that he needs to make reservations and that this is very important to you and that yes you don't think he is being romantic at all if you have to pick the place out every weekend - now just remember if you don't like a certain type of food or place you will have to suck it up and act like you are enjoying it because you are making him pick the place.

I am the planner in our family but every now and again DH will call me up and tell me by Wednesday that I need to get a baby sitter for DD that he is taking me out Saturday and won't tell me where it is that we are going and I will get all dressed up and then he will surprise me. Sometimes I like the place and sometimes not but I never complain because then he will stop planning these nights!! Hubby is not the most romantic man on the face of the earth but let me tell you those nights that he plans and I get to just sit back and enjoy are the best!!