Sometimes your girl just isn’t having the best day. Sometimes it’s up to you to cheer her up. Even if you’re tired, even if you’ve had a bad day too — you gotta take one for the team and be the supportive partner you signed up to be when you started the relationship. You can’t always have a unique and creative solution, but here are 9 quick ways to get your girlfriend to smile after a bad day.

Dance Party

There’s no way anyone’s going to feel sad after a dance party. If you’re dancing — you’re having a good time. I didn’t make the rules. But the key here is that starting a dance party takes effort. So, you gotta put on the music that she likes, and you gotta be the first one to start dancing. There will be resistance to the idea of dancing after a bad day, but you do you. Eventually she’ll see how much fun you’re having and will join in.

Food

While I can personally, confirm that it’s 100% possible to cry while you eat because of how tough of a day you’ve had, I can also confirm that there is a 0% chance that people still feel just as bad after food as they did before food. So, order some pizza, make some dinner at home, or suggest to go out — because food is a great way to improve the mood of a person.

Tea & Biscuits

Following on the idea of “food”, another good thing is tea and some cookies. First of all, just saying the word “cookie” is fun. If you do it a lot (basically to the point that it stops meaning anything to either you or your girlfriend), that might be enough to put a smile on her face. But also, tea is like a liquid hug, and sugar is great.