In praise of lovely DHs or DPs

[BettyfromBristol]

There are so many threads about the useless ones, can we have a thread about the good ones.

I'll start. Some lovely thoughtful presents. I'm unwell and not able to do lots. He genuinely doesn't mind taking over and letting me rest. Lots of gentle hugs and cups of tea coming my way.

Anyone else with good reports to make?

Mine is currently cooking Christmas lunch for my entire family while patiently listening to my father's ramblings about Brexit. I'm rocking the baby upstairs.

Lovely presents that he really thought about!
He loves his presents from me and has appreciated all the thought that went into them
Cooking Christmas dinner rn
He pulls his weight with Christmas in every respect
And we had great sex last night

We've got three kids, aged 2, 4 and 6 - DH has been entertaining them all day while I potter about. He's a really good dad.

Mine is bloody delicious too. Having married a cheating, gaslighting narcissist and decided love just wasn't for me I've now found myself the best man I could wish for. Unbelievably kind, ridiculously funny and incredible in bed too to boot. Just the right balance of naughty and nice.He thinks he's the lucky one and never gives me any reason to doubt his sincerity. Never felt more calm in my life. They're absolutely out there and I hope everyone finds their's. The world would be a happier place ❤️

I should also say, he's also volunteering at a homeless shelter tonight as he does every Saturday. Good dad, good person. I'm very lucky.

Mine is fucking amazing. He's the best Christmas present I could ever ask for - he's currently doing something with turkey giblets and telling me that he needs to 'test' the roast potatoes extensively. He's taken care of us all this week while we have covid and is amazing.

My DP has been nothing short of wonderful whilst I’ve been off my feet with COVID.

done everything for the past 5 days, no different today. He’s currently sorting out dinner whilst I lounge on the sofa.
Couple with many gorgeous, thoughtful gifts.
One very loved lady xxx

Very lucky to be in the brilliant DH club. He is the kindest, funniest, most fearless and most handsome man I've ever met. I pinch myself daily.

He's working nights until Monday, he wouldn't hear of me being at home without him and bought me a plane ticket to see my parents. We're having our on Christmas and boxing day next week and I can't wait.

Oh yes, my DP. This is our 3rd Christmas together and he's excelled himself again. We hosted last night in our new house and he was perfect. Given me some amazing gifts, went halves on all my DCs presents and we've had a fab time this morning playing with them. The only think he's asked today is if I'm happy. He's a keeper.

Mine please!! My family come to us every Xmas (mum and two young brothers) - my partner very happily cooks for us all and is so good with my family. He bought me some really sweet gifts which are totally to my taste (fancy embroidery scissors, a candle from the brand we discovered on our first holiday together, a lush gift set with my favourite bubble bar and a big blanket [for me and the dog, apparently ]). He's my best friend and an amazing partner and has been keeping my Christmas spirit up all month whilst I've been a total miserable sod about not feeling christmassy!

🙋🏻‍♀️ I'm going through an utterly horrible time right now. DH has been wonderful. He's looked after me so well. I'm so grateful.

My DP is great! This was our first year with our baby at Christmas and he's worked so hard at making it special!

He had the tree lights on, tea/coffee ready and presents set out for me and the baby coming down this morning.

Throughout the year - we take the night feed in turns every night with the baby, we share the housework, he walks the dogs, is always buying me thoughtful things or sending nice messages when he's away for work. He is always looking after me if I'm not well and taking the baby so I can get some rest (I'm pregnant)

I love this thread, nice to see a positive one for a change!

Dh is lovely. Just about to go for a little walk to blow off the cobwebs with friends and Ds pooped. Dh was first to volunteer to change him before we head off.
Some lovely gifts

My DH is the Best.
Today he will cook and entertain 30 members of my family. This morning he came with me to the cemetery I know he hates going there only ever goes on Dd1's Birthday/Anniversary/Christmas. His motto is as long as your happy I'm happy.
I do know by the end of today he will have muttered several times your family are all mad😂😂😂 cos it's Christmas I'll let him off with that.

Yup. Looking at some of these threads is really upsetting. So many thoughtless twats out there who couldn't make a tiny bit of effort of their lives depended on it.

Feeling very grateful for DH who loves Christmas and always goes to every effort to make it special. He's done most of the present buying, wrapping and planning, got all the DC's toys sorted and been very thoughtful about gifts for me and my parents. Got everything I asked for and more. Worry I'm taking that for granted, so this is a good thread to acknowledge that. Might even show it to him

DH arrived when DD was a stroppy messy spoilt teenager, and DH knew his parenting skills were crap.

Now 10+ years later they have a great relationship, he was genuinely delighted that she ended up here for Xmas (Covid etc), and she bought him his best present.

And he is mostly lovely to his mum and dad.

Love him to bits.

Same here! It’s the first year I don’t have any family to spend it with and he’s very kindly agreed to have a quiet Christmas just the two of us rather than forcing me into a big celebration with his family. Beautiful gifts, a lovely long dog walk together, I tidied up and he has made a start on the dinner. He’s just tucked me and the dog in on the sofa and handed me a glass of Prosecco whilst he looks after the cooking. I feel very lucky to have him.

My husband is so lovely and amazing. We've been together almost 20 years and just seem to get happier and closer over time.

We don't do presents or traditional Christmas stuff as it's not our thing, but if I wanted them, he'd go all out. For my last birthday before covid he secretly went to a huge Lego store and came back with several sets (he can't drive, so this involved a secret day off work and many trains and lugging huge boxes around carefully - he's dyspraxic and autistic and this was such a challenge for him, it was amazing!)

Today he woke me up with a cup of tea and hot croissants. He made an amazing bacon sandwich for lunch and is prepping a stew for tonight. And all with love and a smile every time he sees me.

I am very aware of how lucky I am every single day and am grateful.

My husband cooked Christmas dinner! Haven't had to lift a finger. I love him.

My dh bought me two presents from my Amazon wish list and that's absurdly fine by me. Because he is an exceptional husband and dad every single day of the year and he always has my back. He goes above and beyond for us and never asks for anything expect for what I want for Christmas and birthdays. Even the "spontaneous" gifts he gets me, I know somebody (daughter, sister etc) has a hand in it. And I don't care. I love buying him thoughtful, considerate and totally unexpected gifts beers he is a an absolute star in every way. So I'm happy to open anything he wants to give me. Although I've he did put a stick on bow on his gentleman's vegetables and honestly thought it was a great gift. Once he got over me laughing so hard I peed, he too saw the funny side when I started putting stick on bows on the kids as a gift back to him 😂🤷🏼‍♀️.

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Mine is bloody delicious too. Having married a cheating, gaslighting narcissist and decided love just wasn't for me I've now found myself the best man I could wish for. Unbelievably kind, ridiculously funny and incredible in bed too to boot. Just the right balance of naughty and nice.He thinks he's the lucky one and never gives me any reason to doubt his sincerity. Never felt more calm in my life. They're absolutely out there and I hope everyone finds their's. The world would be a happier place ❤️

This. Absurdly this. 20 years in with him and I worship him but it's NOTHING to how much he adores me and our kids. I'm incredibly lucky. (But he can't be trusted with power tools, diy or car maintenance 😂)

Some lovely, thoughtful presents for me, nothing very expensive but little things that I really love. He's done literally all the Xmas shopping for DC and our families including all the food shopping as I'm CEV and avoiding shops like the plague at the moment. Best of all though is that he's supported me through a tough year where I've been very unwell. He's lovely.

Mine is a good man too, though hes shite at doing Christmas. And my boys are bloody good boys too.

Such beautiful posts on here, thank you for responding everyone. Mine is just putting the kettle on again then is going to do a bit of DIY associated with one of my presents.

He’s kind, thoughtful, honest and takes a genuine interest in other people, what they enjoy etc. He is extremely patient (has to be to put up with me), he’s spent most of the morning playing with my little boy and he looked after him for four hours yesterday as I’d forgotten a present and needed to drive home for it.

I really don’t deserve, I still have no idea how I managed to trick the poor sod into marrying me.