What made you grateful for your partner this week?

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Scrolling down the relationship board is depressing. Thread after thread of unhappy relationships. It's a wonder anyone bothers maintaining them or seeking one out!

Can we dilute it a little?

What is something your partner has done for you this week that no one else would have and made you think "thank goodness for him/her"?

You don't have to doom-scroll 'relationships' 😂 There are other topics.

It's bound to be heavy on problems because the good times and happy relationships don't really need advice or dissection.

Quite. I haven't opened any thread for the past few visits because I don't fancy any of the titles/topics....

So no doom scrolling has happened don't worry..

I was married to a horrid guy who was winding down my biological clock. So I divorced him and on my 35th birthday decided to not think about serious relationships or babies for 12 months - because getting desperate just doesn't help and life is life.

I went on tinder for fun and met a guy who, when I mentioned after a few dates how I'd really wanted kids just said "At 35 we've not really got time to waste then."

And he meant we! A few months later we were married and after a year I got pregnant.

I'm currently holding my sleeping 9 month old DD and we've decided to try for a second.

We've had some horrible life experiences that you wouldn't believe but we're such a strong couple now. I love him so much, and I respect him.

He said he had no plans to ever get married, but something moved him when I said I'd wanted a child. He's such a good dad and treats his little baby like a little princess.

When I read these posts about awful relationships or by women who have just woken up to the fact they are being controlled or have zero help from their partners and are at wits’ end I am so extremely thankful this board exists. From reading them I am much clearer about how many people (or should I say women? granted I don’t scroll through dad equivalents) are living in hellishly controlling relationships and in relationships that are all out of love and how many women have their hands tied by low paid jobs, an expensive property market, lack of childcare and low confidence. I am glad that people who need help find this place.

And stories from and replies here by people who have got out of these unhealthy situations are as uplifting, for me, as any posts by people who are in dream lover soulmate relationships.

Then again, I don’t find people’s bad days, bad years or sh*t relationships depressing. I find the faux positivity I see on Instagram more wearying!