Something DH can do that I just can't.

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I realised this Christmas that for all I criticise him DH can do something I just can't. His ability to patiently get involved in small talk from my elderly relations for long periods is astonishing. Same stories over and over. Hour after hour. Never thanked him til today. Whats your Dh's special skill?

when I first met dh and we realised it was serious, he came with me to visit my granny in a nursing home. Just saw it as something that you do. She could hardly talk, it was grim nursing home type visiting.
but she was mentally all there and go to know him.

My own brothers were crap at visiting her, but my dh came as a matter of course, and never tried to cry off.
he had worked in a nursing home as a teenager, and was so kind.

It made me love him more that he did that.

And my Granny came ot our wedding in a wheelchair with a nurse escort, and he was as pleased as I was.

I think I've forgotten what a good man is, really lovely reading this thread. Mine is sadly nowhere near any of yours. Makes me sad .

DH makes amazing sandwiches! Not exciting or groundbreaking combinations but always the perfect ratio of say ham to cheese to mustard. He’s also just gets me stuff all the time. If I mutter to myself that I have a head ache, he disappears and reruns with a painkiller and a drink. Or if I fancy chocolate and we don’t have any, he’ll go to the garage and get some. Or comes back from the supermarket with the exact right choice of magazine or crisps that I fancied but hadn’t mentioned. He’s lovely.

I love hearing about all your lovely partners. It’s really heartwarming. And it’s given me the kick in the arse needed to leave my bf. Early days but THANK YOU xx

My DH has incredible talent with children, old people (and animals - including dangerous ones). They trust him, they are calm around him and he can stop tantrums, panicking and tears, even in a stranger. he can also calm a man who is losing his temper. It was one of the first things I noticed about him and I have never come across it before in such an extreme form. It is the very definition of "feeling safe" with someone.

My DH's special skill is niche, but essential in our house. He has the ability to wash a cat that hates water.
Unfortunately said animal has some gastro issues that make this a necessity every so often. I don't know what I'd do if we ever split up!

@Ironingtsunami

My DH's special skill is niche, but essential in our house. He has the ability to wash a cat that hates water. Unfortunately said animal has some gastro issues that make this a necessity every so often. I don't know what I'd do if we ever split up!

Take one wet room, a pair of shorts, a vest top and steel toecap boots.

Add one stinky cat and a shower set to warm.

They then enact a Wheel of Death around the wetroom walls as you get nearly as wet as they do.

This is my special skill when DP isn't around to hover outside the normal bathroom door holding thick towels, ready for when the mildly traumatised drowned rat emerges. And the cat.