To ask for really silly things that made you love your DP

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Silly, not at all romantic things your DP/DH whatever has done that made you feel a rush of love for them.

Mine is really weird not sorry

I thought I had worms yesterday.
As well as several other health issues that have been making me miserable. Retrospectively I think I was overreacting but we have all medicated in case. When we turned off Netflix to go to sleep he (like he does every night) said "Night night honey, love you" and I said night night honey, love you too" and he patted my tummy and said night night Jims.

As in, EARTHWORM JIM (cartoon from the 90s that I loved). Not only did it help me get over the sheer embarassment at having to text him at work that I might have wot, and was feeling miserable and gross about it all day, he just cheered me right up and I had to grab his face and give him a big kiss.

Oh and when I was ill and asked him to get me something nice from the shop and he bought me fish fingers "because he has never seen me sad whilst eating a fish finger sandwich
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Has your DP ever done anything stupid that really cheered you up?

@echt for you x

I'm terrible at leaving things downstairs when I go up to bed. So for example, I make a drink to take up, then go and clean my teeth, get into PJs and into bed, then realise I've forgotten the drink. He always brings it up for me. Or if he doesn't he'll go back and get it.

He's also extremely financially organised. Spreadsheets of daily spending, comparisons of hundreds of mortgage lenders and their length of term. It actually really annoys me most of the time but when I sit and think about it I realise how useful it is to have someone so savvy with money. He's not cheap though, won't hesitate to spend money on nice things like meals out and travelling. But he has his priorities right. He walks around in socks with no toes in and bobbly t-shirts but will spend the money saved on clothes and toys for our daughter.

He's a good egg.

I agree: this thread is great!

I was very much moved by Unicorn's post. Your DH is pure gold!

Lots of good peeps on this thread ☺

@SoddingUnicorns your husband is an angel x

When we were young, walking home from the pub with my friend who was upset after a guy called her ugly, dh put a traffic cone on his head and chased her down the street to cheer her up. It was a turning point I realised he was a lovely person I wanted in my life, not just my latest snog of the week

When we were young and skint, DH (then DP) used to bring me cups of tea and piles of newspapers in bed every weekend.

He used to put little treats like chocolate bars and avocodas in the fridge for me, and when he had extra money, books, perfume, flowers and gourmet coffee beans.

Later, when we married, he always pulled more than his fair share of weight with the housework and kids.

So many little things over the years . . . Which don't seem like much, except when added together . . .

A couple of weeks ago he caught up with a man who had accidently left 200 in an atm machine.

It's actions like these which confirm the faith i've always had in him as a person of innate goodness and integrity.

After nearly 30 years, he is still kind, generous, patient and loving as ever.

When I asked him to get mint jelly from the shop and he came back with strawberry, raspberry, lemon, lime and orange and said sorry I couldnt find mint...

somehow none of them were quite right with lamb. We were eating jelly for pudding for days!!

@SoddingUnicorns wow he's amazing

My OH put a roof over my head when I had to flee a violent and controlling past.

NightLion
Your DH sounds amazing and you can tell from your post how much you love and respect him. Warmed my heart xx

Cheers, Bone. DH has his flaws (like all of us), but he is fundamentally a good man, and in all the thirty years I've known him, he has never let me down . . .

I go to bed before him. He always comes up with me and lays down for a chat until I fall asleep, then he comes up later.

No matter what the time is, no matter what he's doing, if I ask him to get me chocolate from the shop he will do it guaranteed. Even if we've had an argument

He's my best friend. We met when we were young teenagers and have just stuck to eachother ever since. Dunno what I'd do without the dickhead.

when I told him I was very unexpectedly pregnant with no.4 (crying my eyes out and shaking) his words were, 'this is great news, we'll cope' and gave me a massive hug. DD is now 3 and the best ever!

Wonderful thread!

Too many things to choose from but....

Waiting up for me to finish work at 4:30 am so he could see me before he went away for work (pre dc).

He rubs my feet when I am tired without prompting.

Just after DC 2 was born, he got up and cooked me a bowl of pasta at 2am because I said that I was hungry.

He kisses the DC and me as soon as he sees us, morning and evening.

He once took our neighbours to hospital at 10pm as they could not drive.

Love him to bits!

After an emotional shift at work I had come home showered and gone to bed as I couldn’t face the world and needed to curl up and cry. He popped out without a word then come back with Chinese, chocolate and wine and served it to me in bed while watching beauty and the beast with me (he hates that film), he held me all night and reminded me that caring is not a weakness and he loves the fact I care about the people I look after but it’s his job to make sure I am ok as I make sure they are ok.
That was 6 weeks into our relationship and he is still the same 13 months in, he sees when I struggle and steps in without me having to say x

echt.

We tangle our legs up in bed when we're going to sleep, and he always demands "legs, please" in a funny voice.

He bought me a stuffed animal for our 6 month anniversary, and we gave it a voice and a character, so he now includes it along with our DD (who won't be born until August) and the dog as one of his children.

When I started a new job five years ago, I was much younger than all of my colleagues, who didn't like me at all, which was upsetting. I had an hour long lunch break, and he came out to meet me for lunch every single work day for a year. We would sit in his car and listen to the radio.

I love this thread. It's making me feel all warm and fuzzy.

I was reading all these whilst waiting for a key to be cut and I felt all warm and happy

When me and DP hold hands one of us always says "holdy handies". We were slouching on the settee at opposite ends and coukdnt hold hands so he put his foot up against mine and said "holdy feetsies"

OH AND I JUST REMEMBERED the time we were leaving his mum's house and his mum's evil cat was tormenting a caterpillar and he was and got a leaf and moved it somewhere safe away from the mean cat!!

Shortly after we first got together, I sustained injuries to both my hands. The night I got them, he bought pizza, ice cream and wine. For the next few weeks he helped me shower and wash my hair. He also drove me everywhere.

I remember the exact moment I fell in love with him. He was sat on my bed with my dog; the pair of them were sat forehead to forehead. (My dog has been through a traumatic past and was scared of men.)

As an absolute gem of a man, I can’t wait to marry him x

This is such a wonderful thread

I will have to NC after this out of sheer embarrassment.
TMI people

When I was 40wks pregnant with DC2 I suffered badly with haemorrhoids, due to my huge bump I couldn't see "down there" and I was in lots of pain and tears.
DP didn't even flinch when I (covered in tears and snot - blaming the hormones) asked him if he can put some cream on them. I was expecting him to be mortified as I was but he was completely unphased, gave me a long cuddle and never mentioned it again.

I had a crazy long day at work yesterday (I'm 10 weeks gone so getting quite tired) and he had jacket potatoes waiting for tea when I got home. And when I burned my tongue on the melted cheese he leapt up and said he'd bought me some mini Twisters because he knows I like them and that would be just the thing to soothe my tongue 😍

The way he says Birmingham. Burningham. And says he is going out to low the mawn.

My old next door neighbour was an amazing lady who sadly developed dementia and deteriorated quite quickly over about a six month period. She would come out of the front of her house and not remember why or what she was doing, but would chat to anyone she encountered.

Before my soon to be DH and I lived together he had stayed over one night and the next morning I was upstairs in my bedroom with the window open, and I heard him outside the front of the house talking to her. I looked out the window, and he had taken our brand new tiny kitten Ollie out in his arms to meet her, and was telling her all about him - what he liked to eat, how scared he was when he first came to live with us etc. etc.

He (soon to be DH, not Ollie the cat!) also used to water all the plants in her front garden. Even when, soon before she went into a residential care home, she was in a bad way and stopped recognising him, and she would bang on the window and shout at him to stop if she saw him doing it, he would sneak out under cover of darkness to water her flowers, as she used to take such pride in her garden.

I feel such a big connection between meeting him, and what my mum replied when I was little and I asked her if she believed in God, and in response she said to me 'I believe in the goodness in people.' That has always stayed with me.

My DH many moons ago on my 21st birthday I was upset as I had lost all my parents mum nan and grandad (lived with my grandparents growing up) within the 3 years leading upto my 21st. I felt so lonely and sad they wernt around. On my 21st birthday he got my a birthday card from each of them and a keepsake for my purse.

He gets me flowers every anniversary of my mum's death.

One of the first things he said to me....He is without a doubt the funniest man I have ever met but this was a cheesy corker I couldn't help but laugh. We were on a romantic walk along the beach then opened his hands with some sand and a shell in it and said " Have you met my mates shell and Sandy?" It was brilliant it was so memorable he mentioned it in his wedding speech.