Tell me something lovely your OH has done for you

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Doesn't have to be today, can be big or small. Just nice to have some positivity!

I'm full of cold and feeling like crap today. I really fancied baked beans with my dinner and thought we had some in. My OH had to leave for work in 30 mins but upon seeing my disappointment drove to the shop to buy me some, dropped them off and went to work. Honestly it's the little things!!

So tell me the small (or big) acts of love from your OH 😊

Did a 3 hour 6 buses round trip to visit me in hospital everyday for the 5 days I was there. This may not sound like a big deal but he is on the spectrum and struggles with public transport so the fact that he did it showed how much he cared.

I'm so lucky that my husband is sweet and loving and there's so many examples but a stand out one would be...

My late Grandad used to love vintage cars and he volunteered at a vintage car museum. I miss him everyday, sadly he never got chance to meet my husband. On our wedding day my husband had arranged a surprise for me. He organised to have one of the cars from the museum and a friend of my Grandad to be our wedding car and driver. It was so special and thoughtful and meant in some way my Grandad was there with us to celebrate. 🩷

Mine came with me when I was clearly panicking after getting a phone call to say my son was really drunk. He drove his van rather than me trying to find my son on my own. Also it's easier to get a drunk emotional 17 year old in a van than a car. He drove us both home then the next day came with me to collect my son's car as he is insured on it (50 yr old man brings 17 year olds insurance down). He went on holiday that afternoon and just chucked some stuff in a bag as he hasn't had time to pack properly but he didn't make any sort of fuss or seem to care about that. My sons mean everything to me and their dad won't help even in a crisis so doing anything nice for me/ my sons means a lot.

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Well. That made me tear up. So lovely. Damn you.

Aww 🩷 it was really special!

He’s just a nice and thoughtful person. I’m not doing great at the moment, I’ve very recently had surgery and I’m an in patient with weekend day release for other reasons. He’s looking after our kids, animals and house on his own while going to work and has been for a while, he hasn’t moaned even though I know he’s knackered. Despite me reminding him he doesn’t need to, every week day he’s visited in the morning to collect my tablet, downloaded from netflix etc (my internet isn’t very good) and brought it back later in the day with new shows etc on it, along with food he knows I like and clean clothes as he knows I dislike the detergent here. I’d rather he didn’t for his own sanity, but I know its something that helps him.

When we hadn’t been together that long my little boy had to go to A&E due to a suspected broken bone, I asked him if he could feed the cat, he did, but he also cleaned the flat, did the washing and put away all the ironing. He also dropped off pjs for my little one, his teddy and lots of snacks as we had to stay in. It was our first valentines too, he booked something for us which I didn’t realise was actually quite expensive, but no moaning, it wasn’t even mentioned. Before he moved in I was hospitalised with covid so he had to look after my little boy, again, no fuss, got on with it, called grandma to make sure he hadn’t missed anything from his normal routine.

Brought me paracetamol, Brufen, a cup of tea and a bacon roll when I had a stinking headache this morning - he’s a keeper 🥰

I had four wisdom teeth taken out, looked like a hamster and couldn’t chew. He made some soup with mini dumplings. I’ve always remembered that.
If he’s poaching eggs, and one breaks, he gives me the perfect one.
If there’s only one of our favourite biscuits left he gives it to me.

Will always give anyone a lift no matter what. It's his superpower

Also didn't really want a cat and now serenades him daily and caned it home from the airport to spring said hairy boy out of the cattery a day early.

Oof, loads over the years, most of them a bit long-winded to tell in detail and after 26 years I'm largely part of the furniture!

He is, however, a really good man at heart and he's done some lovely thoughtful things. As another poster said, he was incredibly supportive when my elderly mother deteriorated into Alzheimer's, I look back and I don't think I could have managed without him. He hates taking care of me when I'm sick (I'm an awful patient) but he has rescued me from multiple migraine situations when I was away from home and couldn't stand, let alone drive. I'm much better now thankfully.

He's coordinated many surprises, usually when he knows that a certain chore or social gathering, is going to really stress me out or trigger migraines so he'll surprise me by finishing a complex or hated task before I get home, or by getting us out of something I'm dreading. We once had to move a load of belongings from storage into a new flat - I was grumpily expecting us to be doing it in the dark when I went there from work, but he came up with some weird reason why I should go home instead of to the storage place. When I got there, not only had he completely emptied the storage unit, he'd set everything up in the flat as well. Handed me a drink and a TV dinner when I was expecting hours of humping boxes. ♥️

Quite a sweet story that I've told on here before was when my new boss at a new job had made a catty comment about the lowly Bic biro I had brought to a client meeting. I was momentarily embarrassed in front of the client and mentioned it in passing to DH. A week or so later he presented me with a Mont Blanc fountain pen with the note, "Nobody looks down on my wife."

He went to get me a tin of Heinz tomato soup because it's all I've harped on about all day, in my flu riddled state. Two big muddy dogs with him in the pissing down rain, and he'd forgotten his walking cane so the poor bugger was knackered. Two of the shops he found didn't have it, so he came back, got the car and drove out!

And he wouldn't even let me heat it up myself! I'm going to sneakily run him a bath and let him use one of my bath bombs in thanks.

Lots over the years, but one stand out one was when we had only been together a few months and he shyly told me he'd cleared out some space in the wardrobe and wanted to buy me a bedside table. Coming off the back of a relationship where I wasn't even allowed to leave a toothbrush at my boyfriends (God knows why, I suspect so he didn't feel tied down to one woman) it was so lovely having someone put so much thought and effort into making me feel welcome and comfortable!

Mine always brings me the biscuits he gets in hotels or with a coffee, even though he likes biscuits himself.

I'd been dating my now DH for a couple of months when my mum died. My mum and I had a difficult relationship as she had addiction issues. I was there as she passed and it was a very distressing thing to see. I rang him that evening and he came straight over even though he had a work shift and lived in another city. He held me as I sobbed. I couldn't sleep and he took me for a drive. I fell to sleep and woke up to find he'd driven all the way to a beautiful seaside town. He literally carried me from the car to the beach and wrapped himself around me till the sun came up.

This year he took me back. 25 years later. And we watched the sun go down on that beach together.

He's my rock, my comfort and my world.

My ex had upset me on purpose I think on my birthday. He rang to check in on me he let me off load and he listened. I knew then I was lucky. Also seems to be my biggest cheerleader.

Two things come to mind.

I had my childhood doll that had been given a million baths, dragged around by her hair etc. Fifty years had not been kind to her. My teenage sons tied her to the beams in the loft to scare the crap out of you when you went up there.
One Christmas I unwrapped a present to find he had restored her. He had conditioned her hair, replaced her cloudy eyes and bought her a beautiful posh dress, socks and tiny beaded shoes. She is allowed down in the guest bedroom now. Though I do move her when guests arrive.

The other one is
We had been together a year and he bought me a bracelet, gold with kisses, like the ones you write after your name all the way round it.
I wore it for five years and then lost it.
Unbeknown to me he has been looking for a replacement for thirty years. He found it this year and gave it to me for Valentine's Day.

He's a keeper.

My morning coffee every day, even when he doesn't have to be up himself as he is marginally more of a morning person than me.

My DP does all the laundry, all the bin stuff, all the washing up, most of the cooking although he works late so we don't often eat together.
He is one of the most thoughtful people I've ever met. He will do things to make my life easier all the time without me asking. He will just take things on board during normal conversation- if I moan about something he will quietly take over the task or provide a solution to make it easier for me.
He is constantly picking up little things in the shops that he will know I will like whether it's a mug, a sweet treat, a pen, a notepad, some earrings, just little things. He also does this for my son.

So much.
He should basically get Bc too as he was so support during my studies and sat through 20 takes of each presentation 😂
Most memorable is whenI got call my father died, I texted him, he got someone to cover shift, and rocked up with 2 shopping bags of my fave foods and wine (like such a cheese selection!) . Then helped me find the earliest flight... Because of the wine😂 I am normally well versed in flight search.
He also supported me leaving super stressful job which did not match job description especially the hours.

omg I’m in bits 🥲

Bought me this Birthday cake

My husband is a caring and thoughtful person. He buys me flowers twice a month, and has done since we started dating 19 years ago. He does so many lovely things. Buying me a particular food, because he knows I like it, or I had some MH issues last year and he bought me a beautiful handbag to cheer me up. It's not just materialistic things either, he'll rub my back when I have PMT, constantly tells me he loves me etc.