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

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Hamandcheesebaguette · 07/06/2018 20:03

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?

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JaretsGirlfren · 08/06/2018 22:48

My DD drew DP (not her dad) a picture and wrote a thank you note on the back because he bought her a little present, when he saw it he cried don’t tell him I told you, he thinks he’s proper tough

sparklefluff · 08/06/2018 22:49

He leaves for work silly o'clock in the morning, and always kisses me goodbye, tucks me back in, and leaves a fresh cup of water by the bed for when I wake up.

He holds my hand all night when sleeping.

He sends me a text so it arrives the same time my alarm goes off when I wake up, and then he face times the kids whilst they are eating breakfast.

Neither of us can sleep without the other one in bed (he's been in India for 3 weeks, I'm shattered 😂)

He programs Alexa to say stuff to me during the day when he knows I am at home, and gets her to play a song he knows I love.

He moved 220 miles away from his home town to be together.

The proposal video he made, and posted on YouTube and all over social media (I had no idea as he blocked me from it all!!!) and then played it on a projector screen in a posh restaurant in Rome was just mind blowing. I came back to hundreds of amazing messages.

I could go on. He's just a beautiful person. I miss him lots.

Loonyluna16 · 08/06/2018 23:27

We sleep back to back as my 26 week bump is getting in the way, every night he says "bum bum, feets" so we lie bum to bum with the soles of our feet together.

Also the other week he was just eating a sandwich and I just looked at him and got this sudden rush of affection (might have been for the sandwich mind you Hmm )

He makes me laugh and he gives me forehead kisses. Every morning when he gets to work he sends me a text saying good morning and says how much he loves me and our soon to be son hes a sweetie.

MissEliza · 08/06/2018 23:31

I got a really bad case of flu and he came back from his boys holiday to look after me. He went to the supermarket and filled my fridge with healthy food. He got his mum to make me a really lovely chicken soup. I feel bad now that I spoiled his holiday!

BillywilliamV · 08/06/2018 23:38

We have five of my family staying here tonight, all ovrr the house. They are at Download so basically using us as a hotel, he has not said a word.

littledrummergirl · 08/06/2018 23:40

We were pratting around on the beach a few months after we got together and he picked me up and threatened to drop me in the sea. Only he tripped and we both ended up in the water, soaking wet and laughing like drains.

ilovecardigans · 08/06/2018 23:46

I love that he has proper full on conversations with the dog, when he doesn't realise I can hear him. Also, he is really badly dyslexic, but writes me really lovely, silly poems (in his terrible, adorable spider scrawl) on birthdays and anniversaries.

I have loads more, but I'll end up crying, so I'll stop. We've been married almost 22 years. He rocks!

ichifanny · 08/06/2018 23:46

When I had our babies and it was my turn to do nightfeeds ( he did his turn too ) he would get up too and rub my back while I was feeding the baby .

Haberpop · 08/06/2018 23:54

We had a long distance relationship at first and because I had a car and he only had a works van that he couldn't use for personal use, I used to drive down to him most weekends. When I used to pull up outside he would rush out to give me the biggest hug.

Now we have been living together a year if I am going out before him in the morning or if I get home after him, he comes out to open the gate (we have to keep the gate closed as we have a Ninja chicken called Ovenready who likes to let the postie know he is on her territory and will chase his van down the lane, luckily although she has figured out how to hop over the fence that fences off her part of the garden she hasn't yet applied the same theory to the gate) and if I have had a crap day he has a bath and a gin waiting.

ilovecardigans · 08/06/2018 23:55

This is a really lovely thread BTW.

Notsooriginalwerther · 08/06/2018 23:55

These are all so lovely! I have romantic and sweet ones but in this case the silly little things that bring out that rush of love for him is when he’s reading our dd a bedtime story or telling me something very important about a show he watched and he fluffs the words up and says them almost backwards. I actually cried with laughter when he read that princess Tiana was ‘princess Tina’ to our dd. Bloody silly man.

Coffeeisyourfriend · 09/06/2018 00:27

My DH once made a reference to may favourite tv show (that he thinks is absolute shite) and my heart melted! It's was a miss quote from my favourite episode but the fact he actually remembered it was my fave episode (and fave scene!) was amazing and I forced him to watch it with me since he'd brought it up so every happy with that result too!
Most recently though he left an important job to come home and walk the dog with me because I was having a bad day with my back and had DS to look after too and felt I couldn't walk the dog with DS that day, I'd only text him to ask if he'd take the dog for a longer walk in the evening to compensate and he decided to come home and have us all go for a family walk in the nice weather as the dog needed one and he thought it would help my back to stretch it on a less strenuous walk as I'd be walking slowly with DS. It did help and was a lovely walk that we don't do often enough.

Flowerpotbicycle · 09/06/2018 00:37

If my DP and I manage to have a night out without the children we always come home drunk, make awful cocktails out of whatever alcohol —dregs— we have in the house and have “kitchen disco”... which basically is us putting on woolly hats/caps and sunglasses and dancing around the kitchen with the music blaring (our neighbours must hate us)

Flowerpotbicycle · 09/06/2018 00:40

Also he can’t lie ever
He’s absolutely terrible at it, even when he’s saying something silly and pretending to be serious he does this weird thing with his top lip, which has resulted in me and the kids shouting “Top lip liar!” whenever he does it 😂 Even thinking about his silly face when he does it makes me smile

Gibble1 · 09/06/2018 00:46

DH has voices for the dogs and one day I voiced the cat. He said I was wrong- our cat who is a beautiful, tiny torture with a lot of white and a masked face apparently speaks like Ray Winstone. She is a proper gangland thug.
He never wanted a cat. Hates cats. I was given (literally handed to me) a kitten in the playground when DCs were very small. I explained that we would take the kitten home and feed her as we had some kitten food that had been sent in the post but that we had to take her to the rspca later.
I rang DH at work and explained that “I’ve just brought a kitten home from school and the kids want to keep her but I’ve said no”
He said “It’s a really bad line, it sounds like you said (what I said)”. I confirmed it. He went mad and we ended the call. He came home from work and walked in saying “Where is it then?” I said she was a she and was hiding down the back of the sofa. He peered down the back of the sofa, couldn’t see her and declared “Well come on then, we’d better go and get it some toys and shit then!” I said “err, maybe food and a litter tray?” And he said “Toys and shit. You know?”.
She crawled out from behind the sofa later that evening and made him her slave.
He still makes me laugh by being a wally after 20 years together. He’s such a kind man and has done so much for his family. He cut out friends who were bad because he had a daughter and didn’t want her near them and many other things. I love the bones of him. But he’s still a slob!

SalsaLala · 09/06/2018 00:54

He once made the cat an omelette for its birthday. He’s lovely!!

bananafish81 · 09/06/2018 02:08

He bought a little LCD blackboard for the kitchen to leave me little love notes on

When I've been out on the piss with mates I'd get home to find he'd left a big bottle of water, a can of fat Coke (aka the little red ambulance), some ibuprofen and a packet of salt and Vinegar crisps on the bedside table for when I woke up with a hangover

When I was off work ill with a virus, not only did he wait on me hand and foot, but he went to the newsagent to get me a bottle of lucozade and a magazine with a toy on the front, like when I was a kid

bananafish81 · 09/06/2018 02:17

Oh and very very early in our relationship, he undertook some amateur gynaecology

After I'd been in the loo for about half an hour, he gently knocked to check if I was OK

I'd been getting sweaty and panicky because a tampon was very firmly stuck and wasn't shifting

We hadn't been together for very long at ALL at this point, so it was with some embarrassment that I fessed up, and said I would have to take myself down to a walk in clinic to try and get it removed

But the wait will be massive, let me have a go first, see if we can get this shifted and save the trip

Nooooo, I squeal. I'll be too mortified to be able to see you again if so! He told me to stop being a baby, there was nothing to be embarrassed about, and he just wanted to help.

Anyway, he got a torch and went digging for victory and he successfully removed said tampon.

Reader, I married him Grin

Andromeida59 · 09/06/2018 02:23

He's lovely and I wouldn't know where to start. However, when we first moved in together (after only being together a matter of week), after unpacking, he sent me up for a hot shower and cooked. It was lovely and he's still lovely 13 years later.

dinodiva · 09/06/2018 03:45

We do a wine subscription service and both times I’ve been pregnant, DH has stopped drinking nice wine for the duration, he just drank supermarket plonk. It was his own personal sacrifice.

He took newborn DS out in the buggy at 5am yesterday so I could get some rest.

He’s completely unromantic but loves spooning and likes to sleep with his head on my ponytail.

Teacakesrule · 09/06/2018 04:05

I found out that I needed major abdominal surgery at 22 and was upset because they told me the scar would be huge vertical (it actually wasn’t in the end). He told me ‘I couldn’t care less what you look like, you’re always just you’.

Also the night we brought our daughter home from the hospital. I was in a drug induced sleep (24 hours post section) so he sat up literally all night just cuddling her because she kept making snuffling noises.

barneymcgroo · 09/06/2018 04:38

The first time I met DPs parents, I'd been out to someone's engagement drinks the night before and got horrendously drunk, and the resulting hangover was one of the worst I've ever had. Envy

barneymcgroo · 09/06/2018 04:41

Aargh, it's 4:40am, I've finished the feed, DS has been back in his cot asleep for 5 minutes but this thread is so sweet, I can't stop reading it!

Duchessgummybuns · 09/06/2018 05:40

He feeds my cat every morning even though said cat is an arsehole and usually attacks him shortly after.

He’s open with me about his insecurities, even though outwardly he presents a couldn’t care less “tough guy” persona to the rest the world.

He describes literally every meal I make as “banging!” Grin

We’ve had some false starts and both had bad relationships beforehand but now as I look at him snoring next to me with his mouth hanging open I go all fuzzy inside 😍

AdeliciousRex · 09/06/2018 08:58

I'm glad to read these. My DH is a lovely, kind man who's made me laugh and feel safe and loved every day for over a decade now, I wouldn't even know where to start about him. It's nice to see others like us out there, you usually only read the problem stories on MN (for obvious reasons).