awww... don''t forget why you love your SO

[aliciagirl]

In the midst of everyone''s anxiety and things, it''s really easy to forget all the great things you love about your SO. What has he done lately to remind you how much you love him?

My SO and I have already picked a venue called the Clay Center and it''s so artsy and amazing and perfect. It has lovely stairs that I would have to walk down to meet him at the alter. So, my SO is on his way home to visit family right now. I decided to give him a call to see how the trip was coming and the first thing he says was "I was just thinking how beautiful you''re going to look walking down the stairs at the Clay Center."

Awww, I almost cried. I know a ring isn''t coming for about 6 months so there is no resentment yet. I hope I don''t start to feel any.... I think we should all keep reminding ourselves why we want to marry our guys!

 

[gwendolyn]

Awww, Alicia, he sounds like such a sweetheart (and he looks pretty cute too from what I can see in your avatar

). Mine sent me flowers on Monday for the first time EVER and the note was so sweet I almost cried. Plus they make my room at school look more like a home and less like prison, so it was happiness all around.

 

[aliciagirl]

Date: 3/6/2008 6:05:37 PM
Author: gwendolyn
Awww, Alicia, he sounds like such a sweetheart (and he looks pretty cute too from what I can see in your avatar

). Mine sent me flowers on Monday for the first time EVER and the note was so sweet I almost cried. Plus they make my room at school look more like a home and less like prison, so it was happiness all around.

Aw, the note is always the best part of the flowers! I''m such a sucker for flowers, too. He sounds very sweet, too!

 

[LegacyGirl]

He sounds really sweet. Mine has been away on business so nothing too special. He just sends me messages telling me he loves and misses me which is nice.

 

[sunnyd]

Alicia, I was thinking about starting this same thread this morning!!! Weird... There seems to be a lot of anger going around for some of us, so good positive thread! Yay!

This will only be sweet to those who have seen the commercial, but on this AT&T commercial they have the cutest little girl I have ever seen and her dad goes away on business and sends her pictures with a stuffed monkey she put in his briefcase. I still love that commercial because she is so freakin adorable. I giggle every time I see it and tell Chris how cute she is.

So a couple days ago we see it and he says "Our little girl is gonna be 10x cuter than her." Awwwwww. I know. LOL.

 

[aliciagirl]

Date: 3/6/2008 7:09:02 PM
Author: sunnyd
Alicia, I was thinking about starting this same thread this morning!!! Weird... There seems to be a lot of anger going around for some of us, so good positive thread! Yay!


This will only be sweet to those who have seen the commercial, but on this AT&T commercial they have the cutest little girl I have ever seen and her dad goes away on business and sends her pictures with a stuffed monkey she put in his briefcase. I still love that commercial because she is so freakin adorable. I giggle every time I see it and tell Chris how cute she is.


So a couple days ago we see it and he says ''Our little girl is gonna be 10x cuter than her.'' Awwwwww. I know. LOL.

That commercial is so cute!

 

[Bridesmaid]

That little girl IS precious. I love when she realizes her daddy''s home and gets so excited. AWW.

And AWW Alicia!!! Yay for starting this thread, and yay for your boyfriend and the arts center. That is so sweet.

My boyfriend goes to school 2 hours away from where I work. Last weekend, he was supposed to do some just-in-case-he-doesn''t-find-a-job-immediately training, but he''d pulled an all-nighter writing a paper the night before. He was exhausted when I talked to him at 9 that Friday, and he said, "I can''t go train. I''m just exhausted." So, as far as I knew, we both went to bed early. (I had to work Saturday morning.) At 4:45 a.m., my phone rang. I like sleep. And I was not happy when I saw his name. I thought something was wrong, or he''d been drinking with the guys and wanted to chat, which is cute, but I don''t think a whole lot is cute at that hour. So I answered - very groggily...

...And he said, "Can you come open your front door? I didn''t want to wake you up, but I can''t get the bolt to unlock."

He said he''d lay in bed from 11 to 2, and when he couldn''t sleep, he just decided to come see me.

He also sends me text messages between his classes that say things like, "How''s my pretty girl? I hope you''re having a good day, and I can''t wait to talk to you."

GAH I love him. Thanks for the opportunity to gush a little.

 

[Miscka]

ohhh I want to play!

This is so small, but it meant a lot to me. I looove to sleep with the covers all helter skelter, in a little nest. I HATE when the sheets are tucked in the bottom. BF loves the sheets to be tucked in, and the top to be pulled up just right. Anyway, I had never really mentioned it but the other night I did and we tried them untucked. Now, before we go to sleep he gets up, and untucks the bottom of the sheets. He doesnt say anything, doesnt expect praise, just does it for me because. I swear I teared up a little, lol! How sappy am I?? He has a hard time with words but he finds little ways to show me that he loves me and it makes me feel all

.

Great thread!

 

[squee]

Aww! Everyone''s guys sound so sweet! Thanks for starting this great and positive thread aliciagirl! Yay!

My BF is always doing cute little things for me. For example, he still opens doors for me, including the car door. I mean, after 3 1/2 years of dating, he still does that! Actually, sometimes I''ll just book it to the car to make it there before he does so that I can open it myself, and he gets all frazzled. It''s pretty funny.

He also will always grab a blanket and cover me up if we''re watching a movie on the couch, and always makes sure my feet are all covered and tucked in so they don''t get cold. He''s very sweet, and cuddly, and is always telling me how much he loves me, and giving me kisses on the top of the head. I love it when he does this! He always says it''s just an excuse to "sniff my head" because it "smells like fruit and flowers".

I''m pretty sure he just means that it smells like shampoo, but whatever. Weirdo. I love him to death though, and I have to admit, his weirdness keeps things interesting! Haha!

 

[krispi]

Mine is a little different: Last night, we had really bad storms come through around 4:00 in the morning. My dog is terrified of storms and growls and barks really loudly at the thunder. I wasn''t too happy about being woken up by the dog, so I gruffly told him to hush. My BF felt really bad for the dog and told me not to be upset with him - he was just scared. He called the dog over to his side of the bed, and got down on the floor beside him and cuddled with him for a while. I couldn''t bear the thought of both of them laying on the floor, so I broke my no dogs in the bed rule, went and got a towel to put over the comforter, and brought the dog into bed. There were no more peeps out of him after that!

When I see how much my BF cares about and has bonded with my dog, it really warms my heart. He''s such a great guy! I love my dog to pieces, but I can sometimes have a tendency to loose my patience with him, and he''s really good about calming both of us down at the same time.

 

[sunnyd]

Date: 3/6/2008 9:16:28 PM
Author: Bridesmaid
That little girl IS precious. I love when she realizes her daddy''s home and gets so excited. AWW.

I know! That''s my favorite part because her face is so cute!

I''m loving hearing everyone''s stories...keep em coming!

 

[CNOS128]

Sunnyd - i love that commercial! it kind of makes me eager to have kids...


Ummm, my BF does lots of really wonderful things - he''s been holding my hand all the way through my first year of law school, which isn''t easy (I complain a lot!). And whenever I''ve had a terrible day or don''t get the grade I wanted, he always tells me everything will be okay, and he''ll love me no matter what.

I also get the "I miss you" and "You have no idea how much I love you" text messages during the day, which ust make me swoon...

Oh, and the other day he started talking about what we would name our children. I love that.
He''s really pretty fantastic!

 

[FrekeChild]

Not long ago BF took me out on a date night--which we haven''t had in a long time. He decided he''d pick dinner and I''d pick the movie. Well he got home earlier than I thought he would and I was just getting out of the shower, well he basically guarded the bathroom door while I was getting ready, and finally when I was ready to come out he made me close my eyes and he led me into the living room where he put my hands down onto a plastic thing. Turned out to be an edible arrangement thing (he doesn''t do flowers) that had at least 25 chocolate covered strawberries. Can''t beat that! Then he took me to dinner at a place that he''d told me recently he wouldn''t ever take me there, we got to sit in front of the fireplace and while we were eating he started talking about who he wanted to invite to our wedding. Then we went and saw "Definitely, Maybe" and overall it was just a very romantic night.

Today he told me that I wasn''t allowed to make any plans for Thursday or Friday of spring break because he wanted to spend them with me. Awww....

Sometimes they can be awfully cute...

 

[Jban]

My SO and I were talking on the phone yesterday and I had started getting into some pretty heavy discussions and he was listening. In the middle of my talking he said that he had to answer a call from work and that he would talk to me later. I wasn''t so happy about that. About 1 hour later after he got off his conference call, He text me my avatar ( that is my pink love man from him) and said that he was sorry that he had to get off the phone while we were talking and that he couldn''t remembr ever doing that and that he was sending the pink man to let me know that he loves me and that we would pick up later.
Can I tell you it almost brought tears to my eye to have a SO that is so in tune with my feelings even when I don''t say something. It truly the little things that make relationships grow.

 

[honey22]

For me it''s the little things that count, those things that get lost in the everyday chaos of life, especially after 12 years together. He does all the little things. He never leaves the house without kissing me goodbye and telling me he loves me, even when I am asleep. I often ring him and complain that he didn''t kiss me goodbye and he just says, baby of course I did, you just didn''t wake up.

He makes and packs my lunch for work everyday (he doesn''t take his, he gets it at work) - I have only made literally less then 10 work lunches in all the time we have been together. Even the days I get up at 5am, and he either doesn''t have to work or can get up much later, he still gets up with that adorable sleepy look and stumbles into the kitchen in his boxers to make sure I have a nice healthy lunch.

He kisses me and cuddles me ALL THE TIME! Our family reckon we are gross and should have grown out of that by now, he is such a smoocher. And a cuddler, especialy when he has a headache - he loves me to just kiss his forehead, he swears it makes his headache better.

I love the way his little lips pucker up into a pout when he sleeps, it''s just so adorable - I find myself staring at those lips at night and just have to kiss them. After this long I can''t help myself. He wakes up, smiles and kisses me back, and just falls asleep again. It''s funny, I have noticed that my baby nephews (his side) do the same cute thing with their mouth when they are asleep - adorable!!

I love the way he just loves me for me. He tells me every day I am beautiful and sexy. He always calls me gorgeous or beautiful when he answers the phone. He doesn''t mind kissing me in front of his work mates, or telling me he loves me. He accepts all my crazy faults and does his best to make me happy. He is always saying, what can I do to make my baby happy today?! He knows that after we eat pizza and drink coke, I like a clean glass to drink out of. He knows that I like to pull the edge of the doona cover up into an ''ear warmer''. He knows all the stupid neurotic things I do that must drive me mad, but he doesn''t complain.

He is my best friend and I couldn''t hope for a better person to stand by me through life. I am the luckiest girl in the whole world.

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 3/7/2008 7:10:42 PM
Author: honey22
For me it''s the little things that count, those things that get lost in the everyday chaos of life, especially after 12 years together. He does all the little things. He never leaves the house without kissing me goodbye and telling me he loves me, even when I am asleep. I often ring him and complain that he didn''t kiss me goodbye and he just says, baby of course I did, you just didn''t wake up.


He makes and packs my lunch for work everyday (he doesn''t take his, he gets it at work) - I have only made literally less then 10 work lunches in all the time we have been together. Even the days I get up at 5am, and he either doesn''t have to work or can get up much later, he still gets up with that adorable sleepy look and stumbles into the kitchen in his boxers to make sure I have a nice healthy lunch.


He kisses me and cuddles me ALL THE TIME! Our family reckon we are gross and should have grown out of that by now, he is such a smoocher. And a cuddler, especialy when he has a headache - he loves me to just kiss his forehead, he swears it makes his headache better.


I love the way his little lips pucker up into a pout when he sleeps, it''s just so adorable - I find myself staring at those lips at night and just have to kiss them. After this long I can''t help myself. He wakes up, smiles and kisses me back, and just falls asleep again. It''s funny, I have noticed that my baby nephews (his side) do the same cute thing with their mouth when they are asleep - adorable!!


I love the way he just loves me for me. He tells me every day I am beautiful and sexy. He always calls me gorgeous or beautiful when he answers the phone. He doesn''t mind kissing me in front of his work mates, or telling me he loves me. He accepts all my crazy faults and does his best to make me happy. He is always saying, what can I do to make my baby happy today?! He knows that after we eat pizza and drink coke, I like a clean glass to drink out of. He knows that I like to pull the edge of the doona cover up into an ''ear warmer''. He knows all the stupid neurotic things I do that must drive me mad, but he doesn''t complain.


He is my best friend and I couldn''t hope for a better person to stand by me through life. I am the luckiest girl in the whole world.

I LOVE everything you said here. My sweetie and I have been long-distance for ages and he does sweet things for me but we haven''t had a chance (yet! it''s coming soon!) to actually really share a life together and get to know and love each other as intimately as you and your guy have over the years. I can only hope we are as wonderfully happy as the two of you. (I''m all full of warm fuzzies now, both for you and thinking about J''s and my future, so thank you!

)

 

[honey22]

Thanks so much gwendolyn! You are such a sweetie. I feel a bit silly but I actually had a little bit of a teary writing that. Sometimes you just get caught up in all the other stuff, you forget to stop and smell the roses. It''s nice to stop and think about why you are still crazy head over heals in love with your guy. He has just nicked off to work for an hour (he is on call at a prison, has to go and fix the power again!), but I am going to do something nice for him today. Maybe a massage, or hire some fav DVDs and sit on the couch and cuddle. Whatever he wants to do. I am just going to love him and make him happy today! He just got out of mopping the floor duty.

I can''t wait till you guys are together! It''s the best feeling in the whole world falling asleep at night in the arms of your baby, and then seeing his face the first thing in the morning. I will be so exciting for you guys. Fingers crossed you are together again soon!

 

[Markie]

Honey, your whole last paragraph is so great, I couldn''t have said it better myself. That is exactly how I feel about my BF too. He just loves me for me even though sometimes I don''t know how he possibly could. He likes to surprise me by doing the laundry or picking me up at work with my favorite type of coffee.

Something he does that is really endearing is that he loves girly shows. Other than that he is such a guy- loves sports, wears mismatching clothes or t-shirts with holes in them, leaves laundry all over the place and chip bags open and doesn''t get why I get annoyed. such a guy. but he LOVES friends and in the episode where Chandler proposes to Monica he totally cries every time, it is so cute.

Also, when I am feeling down I ask him to "tell me something nice" and he will cuddle with me and whisper really sweet things in my ear about how I am the most beautiful girl in the world and he can''t wait to marry me and stuff like that. He always cheers me up

Haha, I could talk about all the cute things that BF does forever- I shouldn''t have gotten started. I have to say, it is really nice to see all the positivity on this thread. We get so frustrated at our guys- nice to think about the reasons we are willing to go through all that!

 

[honey22]

Hi Markie! We are really really lucky to have partners like this. I am so happy for other people, friends etc when I hear them speak like this. It''s comforting to know those you care about are loved and cherished too.

Someone close to me is going through a tough time with her partner, every day I wish that she had someone that felt this way about her and cared so much, it breaks my heart to think she doesn''t have this type of respect, love and security.

to the men (or women!) we love, who love us back and most important, love us for who we are!

 

[WishfulThinking]

This is such a cute thread! I love reading all of your responses- I''m the kind of sappy person who tears up over stuff like this...

Right now it''s midterm time and my girlfriend and I are both living in my tiny, tiny dorm room [even though she has her own room, we prefer to be together!] and we''re stressed out and busy and crazed. I think it''s so cute the way that she reminds me all the time that even though we''re crazy right now, she loves me. We''ll both be studying sitting on the bed and all of a sudden she''ll reach over and touch my toes and tell me how cute and little they are! It always makes me laugh. Or she''ll just look up randomly and tell me that she loves me. All those little things that happen every single day are the things that I love. We''re both cuddlers and cuddle and kiss all the time, which I''m sure the people around us think is so gross. We love it, though. I appreciate that she''s so affectionate because to me, that''s one of the things that keeps me soothed and content!

 

[aliciagirl]

Date: 3/7/2008 7:10:42 PM
Author: honey22
For me it's the little things that count, those things that get lost in the everyday chaos of life, especially after 12 years together. He does all the little things. He never leaves the house without kissing me goodbye and telling me he loves me, even when I am asleep. I often ring him and complain that he didn't kiss me goodbye and he just says, baby of course I did, you just didn't wake up.


He makes and packs my lunch for work everyday (he doesn't take his, he gets it at work) - I have only made literally less then 10 work lunches in all the time we have been together. Even the days I get up at 5am, and he either doesn't have to work or can get up much later, he still gets up with that adorable sleepy look and stumbles into the kitchen in his boxers to make sure I have a nice healthy lunch.


He kisses me and cuddles me ALL THE TIME! Our family reckon we are gross and should have grown out of that by now, he is such a smoocher. And a cuddler, especialy when he has a headache - he loves me to just kiss his forehead, he swears it makes his headache better.


I love the way his little lips pucker up into a pout when he sleeps, it's just so adorable - I find myself staring at those lips at night and just have to kiss them. After this long I can't help myself. He wakes up, smiles and kisses me back, and just falls asleep again. It's funny, I have noticed that my baby nephews (his side) do the same cute thing with their mouth when they are asleep - adorable!!


I love the way he just loves me for me. He tells me every day I am beautiful and sexy. He always calls me gorgeous or beautiful when he answers the phone. He doesn't mind kissing me in front of his work mates, or telling me he loves me. He accepts all my crazy faults and does his best to make me happy. He is always saying, what can I do to make my baby happy today?! He knows that after we eat pizza and drink coke, I like a clean glass to drink out of. He knows that I like to pull the edge of the doona cover up into an 'ear warmer'. He knows all the stupid neurotic things I do that must drive me mad, but he doesn't complain.


He is my best friend and I couldn't hope for a better person to stand by me through life. I am the luckiest girl in the whole world.

Awwww. That really was so sweet. I love and appreciate all the little things, as well. I hate Valentine's Day so much because I don't need a guy who is going to be sweet or romantic to me one day out of the year. I'm lucky my guy is so wonderful to me everyday! My guy is a cuddler, too... there really isn't anything better! It can make coming home at the end of a hard day so much easier.

I don't like being in a LDR for the time being, but it has it's perks. N and I can really talk all night. We can talk about anything... because we have to if want to have contact with one another. I'm lucky that the two of us really can communicate what we are thinking/feeling/wanting... it seems to take so much of the stress out of being a LIW.

I've always been a very independent, almost feminist type who doesn't let anyone do anything for me. He is always saying to me, "Babe, I know you want to do it yourself, but you don't have to. I'm here to help you. Let me take care of it for you." I think it's so sweet how patient he is with me about it. I'll fight for 10 minutes opening a jar before I'll ask for his help and I know it must make him so aggravated sometimes. His patience really amazes me sometimes. Not once since I've known him has he ever raised his voice. He doesn't get angry easily. He's very cool and calm and rational and it balances out my sensitive, irrational craziness. Haha.

 

[princesss]

I love this thread!

I went to hug my BF the other day, and said, "Someday, not soon, but eventually, we''re going to get married and have kids. I just want to make sure you''re okay with that."

He looked at me and said, "I''m more than okay with that. I''m ecstatic about that."

 

[star sparkle]

My FF is a cuddler as well. If he could get away with it, he''d just cuddle with me all day. It always makes my heart go pitter-patter when we''re sitting on the couch and he says something like "honey, come over here so I can hold you."

He LOVES to hold my hand and doesn''t care where we are or what we''re doing. It''s just an automatic thing, like when we get out of the car to do something we naturally just hold hands as we walk. Sometimes I purposely don''t put my hand in his right away or put my hands in my pockets just to see what he''ll do, and without fail, he''ll have noticed and gotten his fingers intertwined with mine within 5 seconds. I find it absolutely adorable. We have season tickets to our local hockey team and there have been a couple of times that I couldn''t go, so he took a guy friend from work with him. He told me that he had to sit on his hands the entire time because he was worried he was going to accidentally try to hold his friend''s hand at some point because we always hold hands like the entire time.

 

[diamondfan]

OOOH, I need this right now.

Mine is great, but can be cranky.

He rushed home from Vail last night into terrible aftermath of storms. He said he missed all of us after the week and just wanted to be home with us. Which was awesome, but he came in at a moment that was a bit hectic here. We had no electricity and my two youngest were in our bed as they were afraid. He loved seeing them snuggled in our bed, but was annoyed he came in late and had to move them out to their own rooms. I had not really planned on him being home til today. He comes home and is in a snitty mood, which really upset me. I am so tired and worn out, he was gone all week skiing and having nice dinners and going in the hot tub and seeing concerts and meeting interesting people. I was fine, but feel crabby now too since he came home in a mood.

The pave rolling ring might ease my pain!!!!

 

[juliejewels]

Great post... I love my SO becasue he let''s me be as dramatic and extravagant as I "need" to be and never complains. Especially as we ring shop , which is such a very big deal for me because I cannot seem to find "the one" . He is so patient.

He is a wonderful caring guy who makes dinner for me most every night, he buys my Sumatra Starbucks to have on hand at his house for when I come over ( he hates it), he changes my bike tires for me when I get a flat ( we are cyclists). He is just an all around sweetie.

He is not really into the "big" things, but it is all the little things he does for me that make me know he loves me forever. I just feel safe and cared for. I never have to worry about a thing.

I cannot wait until we are officially engaged!

-Julie

 

[snogirl17]

We had our vacation in Maui a few weeks ago and last night my friend sent me some pictures while we were out visiting and we both love each other very much but it was so cool to see how much he does. My friend or her boyfriend must have snapped a few pics with out us knowing and my BF is holding me tight while we were playing in the waves and then when we were at the luau watching the sunset he was holding my head and giving me a kiss on the head. he is very considerate and he treats me very well and with respect. I love the big things that he does but isnt it true ladies, those little things are what really gets us!!

 

[dec2410]

ooooooooooooo...i love this thread! i''m sitting here at work, tearing up while reading some of these!!!!

my SO isn''t into big things either, but its really the small things that count for me anyway. thought i''d share a few of the little things i love love love about my SO....

i find it so cute and loveable that this totally manly ex-cop/firefighter is so affectionate and in-tune with his feelings and isn''t afraid to show it EVER. i love that we can spend hours just hugging and cuddling in bed. i love that he still opens doors, pulls out seats and puts on my jacket for me. i love that he tells me i''m beautiful any and every chance he gets...even on my worst days. my guy was never a big fan of children (he found them irritating), but i love that now, he sees a little girl/boy running around and gets giddy about how cute they are. i love that he''s a better driver than i am! (im a better driver than most my friends. hehehe

) i love that he knows more about cars than i do! (i''m a little bit of a car enthusiast.)

and i love that randomly on the way to church he''ll say:

him: "oh yeah. by the way...."

me: "yeah?" (expecting that he''ll ask me to remind him to call his brother later or something little like that...)

him: (still looking straight at the road, nonchalantly says) "we''re going to need a good dental plan..."

me: "what?! where''d that come from?!"

him: (in all seriousness...) "my family has bad teeth! our kids are gonna need it."

i love him so much!