Oh so much!
He is gorgeous!
He is the most balanced and kind person. Since we've been together he's rescued about 7 or 8 dogs he's seen running wild on roads. (Same route, different dogs!)
He would fight a bear with his hands to protect not just our kids, but anyones.
He absolutely puts up with my twattishness and finds it funny as opposed to twattish.
(We've had a history of unusual things ending up in our home, homeless people, many waifs and strays from neighbours who've struggled to care for their kiddos and needed a break. A plethora of animals needing temporary accommodation from kittens, rabbits to pigs. All me, never him)
Years ago a child in our community was at risk of being taken into care and whilst SS needed options for the child, he knew I adored this wee one and immediately offered to become a foster carer or SGO.
He once came home to me minding a baby of a woman I'd met online having a bit of an episode, she needed a break and we'd met only on an app for new mums earlier that week. She didn't collect the baby (but kept in contact, not abandoned him iyswim) for 5 nights, even though it was me stupidly offering (not for 5 nights though) to give this mum a break, he didn't even consider not doing night feeds, he works shift work and the last thing he needed was disturbed sleep, but he wanted to make sure I'd had some rest before looking after our toddler DC and a baby!
If my cooking is amazing, he takes pictures and shows his mates. If my cooking is diabolical he tells me it was lovely but he just feels like cereal later 😂
Hes so dry and deadpan with his humour, but so gentle and sweet to us inside the house.
He will spend hours calming down our ND kids through hushing and rocking and counting with them.
He adores my eldest DS as not just his own, but as a person. He will be bestman at our wedding (covid lost us 1000s on our wedding cancellation so we're just having a small one in next few years)
He literally splits every household job evenly despite me being a sahm. If he's home I will sometimes just run him a bath so he stops for a minute and actually has a break in his day.
He understands my traumas and his own, so we work together to ensure our DC have the most amount of love and kindness they can have.
I have a very shy, gay male friend who enjoys wearing makeup and having nails painted, he always tells him, "you look cool" or "looking gorgeous, George" but in the nicest way, he is so genuine with complements.
How he is with my friends, (i do make Same effort with his, I'll make them birthday cakes or send in things I've made for him to take to work with his colleagues, cheesecakes or quiches) Anyway, I've one friend with asd and she can get a bit panicky on public transport, he saw her at the bus stop and pulled over, offering her and her DD a lift, she said during the drive she was so anxious about getting on the bus that he gave her his number and now he'll take her and pick her up from aldi a few times a month.
I love his most weird interests, they're just so specific to him, but they make him so happy. I'll listen to him explain them and chat and show me videos from YouTube and I'm honestly lost half the time but seeing him so animated by them is a joy.
There was a young woman who he worked with who was having a lousy time with her boyfriend and he was telling her usual abusive shit, she was ugly, fat, useless. DP brought her over to me on their lunch break, "Jessica, tell my Mrs what you've told me", and she did, we supported her through the Next month of a crappy breakup and she's still a friend now.
I love his exes all stayed friends and his most serious exgf (lives abroad now) always sends us and our DC unusual foods for Xmas, from wherever her adventures take her. Especially timtams, we do enjoy a decent timtam.
There are so many stories I could tell, my friends and family adore him, he's the most lovely person I've ever known and I'm so lucky that he loves me.
Downside... I'm writing this all 5am after being woken up hours ago from snoring. Can't win them all 😂😂😂