Post here if you love your partner!

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...and if you wish, say why.
Just to balance the books against all the depressing relationship threads!

My DP is the love of my life, adores me and our 6m baby, makes me endless cups of tea, and forgave my dog when he chewed the DP's wallet on our 3rd date. For starters! (The list goes on).

It's ridiculous how you can't post anything positive or happy on this site without the bitter race to the bottom brigade just having to post some sarky comments. Last time I posted my DH and I'd story (under a previous username) I got PMs telling me he was a)cheating b)addicted to porn and c) to stop being a smug bitch. Wtf. So people just can't stand other people being happy, which is why I read more than I post these days and change my username every month or so

Nah but there's something not quite right in OP's tone. From her aim being to counteract "depressing " threads to "what good does it do to discuss unhappy relationships ".

I have such a healthy food relationship ATM
It's brilliant I am now down to 10 stone
I'm just taking this time to tell you all that there is a day when you too can have a healthy relationship with food

I think Rebel has a good point about the tone, actually.

I don’t think I have read any bitter responses here. Responses urging sensitivity maybe, responses suggesting the op may have worded the original post in a bit of an odd way maybe. Then again I detest the use of the word bitter to describe a person who has been hurt or who has perhaps been made slightly wary. Bitter is such a vitriolic word.

For what it’s worth, I think there are often threads on mumsnet that show the positive sides of relationships in action. Always nice to read those. Also relationships is the board where in the whole, I think posters are sympathetic, supportive and also purely helpful, to other posters who are facing relationship crisis. It can be a very heartening place. Rather than one filled with gloom.

@RebelWitchFace @AutumnCrow I can see right through the post 🤣 sly as a fox

Post here if you love your children

Children...hmm...tricky. Depends, do I have to claim to love them all, or just 1 or 2 of them

Not my kids, nope

My children are wonderful
They are kind clever and good-looking
They rarely misbehave and help with the housework frequently
I'm so blessed to have lovely children

My children are feral, bath dodgers who could find reason to argue over a piece of spaghetti. They also act like I am the single most annoying human on the planet. Yet still I rather love them. Bloody unconditional love- it is nothing but an inconvenience. 😂

@Newerversion only positive stories please
forgot to mention
Just want to delineate from the stories of misbehaving children to show the positive side

Don't read the thread if happy relationships/ people aren't what you want to read. It's quite clear from the title what is relates to, don't come on and bring a downer to a nice thread

I definitely won the husband lottery. Incredibly hardworking, very kind and a true gent. Never any doubt how much he loves me and the little twites. He has a stellar career but says he couldn't do what he does if I wasn't there to support him. Always gives me credit for his success and supports me totally at home and in my career. Feel very lucky to have him in our lives; apparently its mutual! A bit shocked to realise we've been together for 22 years.

Some people find threads like this uplifting and full of hope when they are in a bad situation.

Others are probably like me after my ex's affair and just open the thread to see how deluded people think their relationship is infallible, then get all bitter and imagine angry conversations with their ex about how he used to say he loved them and it was all lies.

It's probably be nicer to be the "full of hope" type, but alas, not everyone is!

My current partner is lovely and I'm enjoying being with someone with half a brain, but (for those feeling bitter today) I have no idea how long that will last, I can't even imagine us living together and I can see loads of potentially reeeally annoying things too.

I love my husband loads and tonight he's come home with some really hopeful news! He came home late so I was a bit grumpy then he told me he had been for a job interview and if he gets it it mean I can reduce my hours and spend more time with our DS, we can move house and we can try for another baby!
He is down to the final 5 out of 60 applicants and I'm so proud of him ❤️

I am lucky to be married to my husband - he is kind, doting, goofily sweet and lavishes me with warmth and affection. I had a really terrible time growing up and wasn't sure I deserved or would ever me the recipient of such uncompromising love, so it really changed everything when I met him. I was allowed to the become the person I wanted to be, as he gave me the secure base on which to do so.

See you can't win.

It's either ' why do woman stay in such shitty relationships' threads or 'dont be bloody insensitive, there are people in shitty relationships on here' threads.

Boggles

I don’t understand your point?

Good luck to Mr cc

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3420711-AIBU-or-does-MN-reveal-that-a-lot-of-women-have-really-shitty-partners

@AutumnCrow thanks! Fingers crossed!

@blackcat86 I swear I coyld have written that post myself 😁

"You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all the people all of the time” Poet John Lydgate

Neither should you try to please all the people all the time, you will end up in a terrible mess!

This thread was for people to share what makes them love their partner (or friends, thanks!). Thank you all for posting your lovely inspirational messages about why you love your partners, warts and all! It is wonderful to see.

Here's hoping for love (in all it's forms), health and happiness to all in the future.