Things your partner does that makes you smile

[Howcanwehelp]

Dh has an early start so he went to bed early, but he knows I need to listen to the radio to get to sleep. So my wireless headphones are charged and by the side of my bed. Win win.

[StylishMummy]

Tells me he loves me sporadically throughout the day
Brings me hot drinks when I'm stuck on long work calls/meetings
Does the bulk of parenting when my disability limits me
Is unfailingly supportive
Is the best dad I've ever known to our DC, patient, caring, playful, engaging. It's the thing I love the most about him

[TDMN]

Oh i love this thread!

The way he loves EVERY dog that he's ever met and regularly texts me pictures of dogs he sees that he thinks i'll like.
He's pretty wonderful in general but he has no shame in talking to perfect strangers dogs in his soppy dog voice and it brings me such jooy.

[Vivenne]

Drives me wherever I need to go, anytime or any day. Works and let's me be a SAHM. On his days off he wakes up early and cleans downstairs.

[Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese]

Most recently its that he entertains ds as soon as he finishes work. I'm furloughed and he's working from home, so Monday to Friday ds and I are upstairs pretty much all day unless we go out while dh is working downstairs (open plan and he has a desk set up as he is a pc gamer and his work laptop requires additional screens, he can't be accommodated upstairs due to that set up and space restrictions)

He comes up with a cup of tea for me and plays with ds so I can have half hour or so to decompress even when he's had a horrible day.

He always randomly orders candles from imperial candle for me because he knows how much I love them.

[MrsR87]

I love reading these replies.

Here we go with mine...
He makes me a cup of tea in bed every morning (I’m sometimes up with baby now but he brings me one to wherever I am). Before lockdown/working from home he still did this every weekend.
He’s a great cook and often cooks dinner.
He always finishes a DIY job he starts.
He thinks the same things as me and we will often say them at the same time and then sit in a fit of giggles.
He indulges my love of Corrie and took me round the set when it was open. He pretends not to like it but when I offer to watch it while he’s in the shower, he always asks me to wait!
When I’m at work, I arrive home and there is always a bottle of Prosecco or wine in the fridge.
When I’m stuck under the baby all evening, he brings me dark chocolate!

❤️

[notangelinajolie]

My DH making a bee-line to laundry basket when I am feeling ill makes me smile. I smile because despite him making a total hash of it, I know he is trying really hard to help me.

I don't get cups of tea, or roses or chocolates when I am poorly - I get the washing done. I have no idea why he does it , maybe he thinks if washing isn't done the world will fall apart.

My washing is generally under control and a missed day or two won't bring us to a stand still.
So, I emerge from my sick bed to a kitchen worktop full of piles of wet soggy washing, radiators on full blast, steamed up windows, crusty towels and room humidity levels not far off the Amazon Rainforest. We do have a dryer but always seems to forget we do.

TBH I really wish he wouldn't but I don't have the heart to tell him. Despite him being totally useless at it - after 30 years married it warms the cockles of my heart.

[Millypaige29]

I’m currently single ha but my ex use to massage my feet omg 😛

[Illy605]

I’m 19 weeks pregnant and my partner lets me sleep to 1pm every day and never comments on it.
He runs me baths without asking, which perhaps would have annoyed me before as I’m a shower person but at the moment it’s absolute bliss.
Always makes me a tea or coffee and specifically buys me decaf.
Brings me a surprise back from the shop even if he’s just popped in for milk.
I haven’t worn make up in months and he always tells me how beautiful I look- I don’t have the elusive pregnancy glow and look like Casper with black eyes but he always builds me up ☺️

[TheChosenTwo]

Scrapes my windscreen because he leaves for work before me and I also struggle to reach the middle and the top (it’s big car! I’m not small )
Cooks for me every night.
Gives very solid, well timed hugs.
Makes me breakfast in bed on a Sunday sometimes (I clean the sheets on a Sunday before anyone worried about crumbs in the bed).
Erm, lots of things really. He gets on my last nerves sometimes as he can also be a twat but we rub along together pretty well even after all these years.

[Stinkywizzleteets]

Gargantuan comedy farts. He doesn’t do romantic stuff but his farts are funny

[Howcanwehelp]

Some lovely things here.
I guess what we're saying is that we want our partners (male or female) to think about us and be considerate and that makes us happy.

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

My DH is the most lovely, caring, giving person I know. He makes me fresh ground slow drip coffee in the morning, while I take my wake up walk. He kisses me when I pass him, lightly but oh, those lips. He puts one hand on my knee when he's driving. He makes me swoon by lightly sniffing my neck. Ah.

He's an amazing cook, and rarely let's me in the kitchen. He's also really easy on the eyes.

40 years and he still does it for me. I got very lucky.

[trevthecat]

I love these threads. Always so many bad threads it's so nice to read the good in our partners. My lovely partner always brings me a coffee in bed on my lie in days (we take turns), doesn't have to be nagged about jobs, empties the dishwasher because he knows I hate doing it! Buys great, thoughtful gifts, is a gentleman in ways of holding doors open, compliments etc. He's just a great man really

[StringyPotatoes]

DH is an early riser but I categorically am not. Instead of me setting an alarm for myself he comes to wake me up by climbing back into bed for a cuddle - whether that's 7am or 9am.

He's taught me to cook. I could barely follow a recipe before I met him but he has patiently and lovingly taught me absolutely everything with no judgement whatsoever. The biggest compliment he has ever given me is when he said "this is so delicious I forget which one of us made this!" (And he's a professional chef)

We have kitchen discos and he does the most ridiculous dance moves to make me laugh.

He indulges my ridiculous quirks.

[LiJo2015]

Brings me coffee in the morning
Random silly dances
Thinks ahead - e.g. i needed to call docs at 8am this morning, i was still sleeping so he called at 8am and then handed over the phone when it was time to talk to the recptionist
Playing with our kids
Gazing and holding our kids
Hes an ameteur carpenter and has made some really handy stuff around the house - recent make was a thumb book holder open thingy-me-jig
Although he can over complicate things - his ideas and execution of said ideas tend to be bloody brilliant!
I love his hair, his arms, his hands, his eyes
I love when hes doing any type of diy really, im a sucker for him straddling the carpenter horse thing and sanding a piece of wood 🤣🤣🤣
'The look' he gives just me
His laugh, his really hearty laugh when something has really got to him (i especially like it if 'i' make him laugh)
He hums and sways a little when hes really enjoying his food
His beard, god his beard it bloody lush

I could actually go on really.

[HelloCanYouHearMe]

There's loads that DP does that makes me smile, but the one thing that gets me everytime is when he smiles at me.

He has the most amazingly beautiful smile I have ever seen and it is so infectious I cant help but smile back at him (even when im in a mood)

[afaloren]

Works really hard
Has the cutest chuckling laugh when something on tv really tickles him
Sends me cute and funny pictures/memes when he sees one he thinks I will like
Cooks AND clears up almost every night
Loves our animals and holds long conversations with them
Always says I am beautiful and sexy even when I look like the back of a bus
Brings me flowers when I don’t expect it
Does loads of jobs for my mum, who adores him
Makes me laugh every day
Makes phone calls for me if I can’t face it.

He’s just the best. I’d be lost without him.

[movingonup20]

Folds my knickers into neat quarters (I then stuff into drawer when he's not looking)

[MonkeyPuddle]

Sets me up with a decaf mocha in my travel mug every night so I have my favourite drink during night feeds
Plays so well with the kids
Makes the best meatballs

[TwoHundredThousandTimes]

made scrambled eggs for one of the local fox cubs living in our garden who had a broken tail.

(It's an adult now and fine although with a bent tail).

[Frokni]

Lovely thread OP, my DH is wonderful and very caring and I have chosen my fav sweet things he does:

-Gives me a back rub/massage on the nights where DDs have run me ragged all day and I am a bit stressed- sets it all up like a spa with candles, ambient music etc and random easy conversation
-Turns the shower on and lays out my towel on the radiator so I can be super warm in the bathroom before and after i get in the shower
-Sets up a corner of the living room when I want a magazine and book binge in peace with a glass of wine, blanket, snacks
-Texts my mum independently of me to talk about football (mums a widow and Dad was a big footy fan), London stuff (Dh from London, mums fav city), and to shoot the breeze about our DDs, me and just general chit chat.

[DeeCeeCherry]

Makes me home-made veggie burgers.

Plaits my hair.

Lots of different things. He's a kind person and I love that about him

[JorisBonson]

He makes up a song for EVERYTHING

[bettydaviseyes1]

Aww I love this thread :)

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

My late DH was such a lovely man. Examples that made me melt:

Holding my hand when we walked
Treating me to 'something nice' if he went to the shop (DS has picked this habit up and does it now 😍)
Cups of tea all the time, even if we had had a (very rare) argument and were still annoyed with each other, he would hand me a cuppa and let me continue to stew (could never stay angry with each other for long though, we always ended up laughing)
Meeting me at the station - he would park the car then come into the concourse and wait for me so as I came across the bridge from the platform I would see him waiting

The last one hit me really hard when he died. The first day I had to do the commute and get an uber to the station instead of a lift from him that was hard enough, but I still looked for him from the bridge out of habit and of course he wasn't there.