avoid ties - wrong message - associations. Socks - not.
If all else fails buy the drinks.
My reaction is one of circumspection. Don't start something you can't sustain. The slow-down of these offerings has to be handled carefully.
Joy liked my singing (no honest) and holding hands etc - call me a cheapskate but I have sustained that out of preferrence for 18 months and don't see it changing.
Mind you I bought her a mobile phone on day 3 so we could conduct textual intercourse daily.