He's not perfect but...

[Homebird8]

Just wanted to hear what all our non-perfect other-halves do to make life together wonderful. There's so much sadness in the world and it's easy to concentrate on the niggles so let's have some fun and dwell on the happy times, and the inspirational times, and the downright silly times!

My BF does accents/impressions and I find it hilarious :-D He's also affectionate and will give me random cuddles for no reason (unlike so many men it seems who only cuddle when they want sex!)

My husband makes me bacon butties and coffee every Saturday morning without fail.

He cooks every night and all weekend. He is a great cook too.

My BF makes me laugh to the point of snorting. He also believes sex should be about love and togetherness, nothing else.

We don't live together and I'm a LP. At the weekends he does bits of shopping for me to save me going out myself and he provides me with logs and kindling.

He's fab

He loves me for me. Puts up with my Uni stress, cooks, makes great coffee and is hugely affectionate.

The most fabulous cooking! He actually uses cookbooks to avoid getting in a rut!

He just went out in the rain to fill up my car for me for tomorrow so I don't have to and he brought chocolate back with him.

He pretends tells the kids he can do all these amazing things and they have only just started to doubt him... He says he used to be a break dancer and can spin on his head (that's why he has a bald spot, apparently!), that me and him ball room dance/tap dance when we go out, that he once lost his arm in a moped crash but stitched it back on with a thread from his Parka

MushroomSoup - Ahh, I love that! Thread from his parka, brilliant!

Tried to do a quick list and had a lot. Feeling like an utterly spoiled madam.

I think it's all the small kindnesses like -
I'll walk in to a fresh bed and he's always plumped my pillows for me.
I'll find a cheeky kit-kat or similar with a note in the fridge.
I wake up to a hot coffee.
Cuddles.
His ridiculous jokes & his wit- he can still make me laugh until I'm near crying...or actually crying. He'd rather we laugh together than stay straitlaced for appearances.

He gives not one shit about being silly with the kids in front of anyone. He'll never brush them off to impress anyone. I think I love that most.

I try not to take him for granted.

He gets wild enthusiasms for the natural world and shares them with the children.

I mentioned yesterday that I intended to spend my free afternoon today doing nothing . . . this morning when DH said he would get some shopping items on his way home, I said "Oh don't worry I'll pop out and get them."

He looked all concerned and said "But you said you were going to do nothing this afternoon - don't go and waste your nice afternoon going shopping."

Bless him.

I love these sorts of threads, they give some balance to all the crap behaviour we hear about, and it's great to hear about happiness in relationships. It also reminds us that no matter what irritations our men might have, they also have (often many) good points. I wonder if the more vocal ladies on the negative threads will come and say what lovely things their partners do? Come on AnyFucker, say something nice about your husband :)
(and no, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious whether these ladies are in happy relationships or not).

Dh makes me tea every morning he's home.

We just got back from a holiday where he did all of the washing, cleaning, cooking, driving and childcare as I'm pg and was feeling a bit rubbish.

Dd is going to nursery this afternoon and there is loads to do in the house, he told me to rest and he'll sort it out later even though he left for work at 6.

He bought me a Chanel fold over bag for my birthday .

He makes me tea every morning. In fact, he's just made a coffee as I'm working from home.

He loves my cat as much as I do - perhaps more - and makes sure he gets all his meds.

He tells me I'm beautiful, even though I'm heavier than I've ever been and feel ugly.

We don't live together but he surprises me with his kindness.

Coffee in bed every morning and as I won't let work clothes on the bed sits on the floor next to me to 'chat' before he leaves for work.

Last week he went out at 7 am to buy coffee as I'd been poorly and run out. He came back with the coffee and when I woke up I found all my favourite stuff in the fridge.

He's just offered to pay for a temporary cleaner whilst I'm recovering from an op.

He pretends he can't see my chin hair.

He went to a massively girly clothes shop to collect the last in my size of a something I'd been looking for and he was so happy that he'd found it for me.

Winegoggles Odd thing to say. I think you'll find that "the more vocal ladies on the negative threads" are not defined by "whether these ladies are in happy relationships".

Why do you care, is this how you define yourself? Or are you someone who thinks that vocal women just need a good seeing to?

WineGoggles, I'm pretty vocal on negative threads, it's because I've been lucky enough to survive years of shit treatment and get to a place where I have a wonderful man who treats me with respect. Everyone deserves that!

He gives the best hugs ever.

He's not ashamed to cry.

He has bags of energy and determination.

He's an ace cook.

He's fuzzy all over (which I adore).

He makes up silly little songs that make me laugh.

There's lots more. He's not perfect but I love him to bits

The best thing about my husband is that I know that nothing in his life is more important to him than me. Nothing. He is a professor who loves his job and worked very, very hard to get there. When I got homesick and cried every night that I wanted to go home, he immediately started looking for work back in the UK. Any work. He would have given up his entire career to make me happy. Thankfully I adjusted to living abroad before he found anything.

Typing that really brings home how much he loves me.

Helen I am just curious. I realise that many women who post on here have been through hell with partners, and I noticed the odd one or two never seem to have a good word to say about men. So I wondered if they actually like their husbands. AnyFucker is one that stands out as taking no prisoners yet she mentioned having a hubbie on another thread. I have also noticed how my reaction to threads depends on the mood I'm in with my partner, and that if I'm not happy with him I find it hard to be positive about relationships in general.That's all.

mushroomsoup that is just so sweet. Made me smile :0)

Purple, that's excellent, but I notice you've not mentioned the nice little thing your partner does (I'm assuming he does nice things?)
When I saw this thread I just knew that certain posters would be unlikely to get with the positive spirit and share a bit of their love, and I wonder if they just don't have anything nice to say about their partners. That would be a shame don't you think?

Mushroom that's funny :o

When DP's home for dinner, he always cooks. Since finding out I'm PG, he won't let me do anything when he's home, so he does the cleaning and the cooking.

He tells me every day that he loves me.

He's a bit clumsy and forgetful about little things which makes me laugh. He trips over his own feet.

We can't stay mad at one another, as we just end up laughing at each other.

He still surprises me. Like when we went to a friend's wedding anniversary party, and DP's not a dancer, but the last song (Time of My Life lmao) he dragged me onto the dancefloor so we could dance together :)

Thanks, WineGoggles, he does