What does your DH / DP do that shows you he loves you?

[swingsofglory]

...other than want to get your knickers off - that's just lust y'know, although it's great when you've got it.

I was thinking about this the other day when I met a friend's new bloke. He couldn't take his eyes off her. DP has no problem taking his eyes off me, but he does still tell me I'm beautiful without being asked, so i think that counts!

Takes a screaming DD2 off me in the middle of the night and walks around downstairs rocking her for an hour so that I can get some sleep.
Tells me how great I look when really I have a postnatal jelly belly, I haven't washed my hair and I have only had time to epilate half of one leg.

PLease can we keep this thread going - it's so nice to be talking about the good stuff. Pig - your dp sounds amazing. And so do you - that you can think about how much you still love him with such difficult things going on.

isn't it great to know that there are all these people being lovely all over the place.

Best of luck with it all Pigleto. Your husband sounds amazing.

Still wanting a shag cuddle, even when I haven't shaved my legs in a week.

Mine might not always be fawning over me but one thing I know he does do is tell sig my praises to other people. Over the years I've had lots of friends/relatives tell me how he thinks the world of me because he gets in at every opportunity what a great wife and mum I am and how lucky he is .

So, even though I might only ever get the occasional bunch of supermarket flowers and cup of tea in bed I do know he loves and appreciates me really.

Sorry, fingers too fast - "tell sig my praises" should simply read "sing my praises"

He tells me I'm beautiful & that he misses me & that he's lucky to have me.

He once stayed up until midnight after work cooking a lasagne for the next day when I went to visit one weekend, because he knew it was my favourite.

Cuddles when I am sad
Takes beautiful photos of me ( he is a whiz with a camera and photoshop)
Cooks dinner when I am late home from work
Doesn't mind when I forgot to get his birthday card yesterday
Says "I love you chick" in his sleep
Tells his best mate ( a girl) that he is in love with me and how fab I am.

Quite a bit really

Makes the best cups of tea - he hates the stuff.
Has stuck with me through some disfiguring illnesses (I'm out the other side unscathed ) and still thought I was beautiful.
Lets me warm my feet on his legs.
Buys me cards for no reason and leaves them under my pillow.
Always cooks his Spag Bol on Valentines day and cuts the red peppers into love hearts for me.
Downloads music I mention for me.
Cooks dinner when I'm not in the mood and grumpy.
Listened to years of rants about how I hated work.
Supports me completely as SAHM and encouraged me to go back to college.
Was brilliant with dd when I wasn't at the beginning.
Is super intelligent and gives me a synopsis of what's going on in the world when I want it and just seems to know the answer to everything.
Is cool calm and collected to my hot temper.
Is still brilliant with our dd.
Does whatever chores I ask him when I ask him.
Orders books from the library that he knows I'll like.
Brings me flowers.
Thinks I am fab.
Is so handsome, I look at him going off to work in the morning and think 'God, if I spotted you on the tube I'd fancy you rotten'

Mine brings me a hot water bottle when I am in the unheated room mumsnetting.

He always has lots of chocolate.

He writes dh hearts me in chalk all over the farm.

He is my rock.

Dh went to tescos and bought me maternity towels and plastic pants after the birth of DS1. Even got a size 12 despite me not having been that for many months!
He also battles DS2 into his shoes when I am already at the end of my tether by 8 am.
He gets the car out of the garage for me and puts it away if he thinks it will be icy/wet.
He wraps me up in a blanket when I fall asleep on the sofa.

Tells me every day.

Leaves my breakfast out and a packed lunch in the fridge even though he gets up for work at 5.30am

Does the shopping on line for us, and the cleaning with me on a Sunday morning. Takes DS on weekend mornings so I can have a lie in

Lovely cards with poetry in - sometimes in French, sometimes written in Elvish.

Makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Composed the music for our wedding.

Tells me I'm beautiful even though I'm not.

Listens to my endless neurotic crap and is always patient and reassuring.

Would prefer to spend his time at home with us rather than anywhere else.

Does the jobs I can't - present wrappage, flower arranging, cupboard cleaning etc and lets me deal with insects rather than kill them.

Is a brilliant loving father to our boy.

I couldn't ask for better

We need photos and a profile, Anafrangipani!

cooks my dinner every day and brings me a cup of tea most mornings when he remembers.

Always cooks dinner, and is good at it too!
Takes the baby in the morning if I ask him so I can get some sleep.
Went part time at work after the birth of our son, because he'd rather be at home with us.
Makes me laugh all the time and understands my silly side
Buys me yummy things when he is in town.
Is a brilliant Dad and loves his son loads too!

I wish he'd say he loves me more. But I know he does, he's just... well, a bloke.

at the lot of you (except pigleto)

My DP takes the bin out and cooks.

Hopefully if my Darling DW were on this thread she would have a few things to list. It helps that she is so appreciative of things I do; if she is tired and grumpy in the evening and I send her up for a bath and put DS to bed she will always thank me afterwards and later give me a special cuddle. If her sister visits and I make them both a cup of tea she will later say how wonderful her sister thought I was for doing that. If I buy her flowers she will look so happy for days afterwards and say how wonderful I am. And so it goes on. The point is that I get to see how well these little things work for her (key is that it is about lots of small things whereas many men think it takes expensive presents) and thus we fall into a virtual circle of warm co-operation and appreciation.

Together 6 years, only I KNOW I never show her enough appreciation for what she does for me.....