What little things does your SO do to show his/her love?

[Shakespeare]

My most recent example: the boy is going to drive about 500 miles roundtrip with me this weekend to a barn I've become obsessed with photographing.

I think that's a serious act of love. :7

[AlCzervik]

1. he buys me gift cards to the bookstore and my favorite coffee place.

he is not a reader of books but he will actually go to the bookstore and buy me a card, sometimes he'll even pick me up a book he thinks i'll enjoy.

That to me is like the best thing ever.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. It would take me pages but...

get up every day at 4:30 without complaining for work.
rubbing my neck while I was driving.
He bought me a bouquet of flowers (carnations) only once because he knew I didn't like flowers.
On just a normal day he came home with a diamond pendant, just because.
We weren't into "Hallmark" holidays, he did little things on normal days just to see my face.
He used to stop me midsentence with a kiss and a wink. I have to stop now or it's going to be a bad night.

[Shakespeare]

3. Lots of little things add up to a very big love.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

:loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. He makes my Bloody Marys

:D

Hehe...Rubs my ears, sends me a text almost every day saying that he misses me, kisses and talks to me when I'm half asleep at 6 am and generally puts up with the chaos that is moi.

:)

[Shakespeare]

13. aawww--rubs your ears?

That's sweet.

It's the little putting-up-with things that make me stop and go "he MUST love me."

:hi: :loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Tell G to rub your ears..

It feels *so* good...lots of nerve endings. :D

Exactly. :loveya:

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. She puts up with me.

That's more than enough. :loveya:

[DS1]

6. pics?

It's gotta be a good barn

[Shakespeare]

10. Even he agreed it was a great photo-op.

After I almost climbed out of a moving car to get a better look, he goes "I guess we're coming back here, huh?" All by itself against low rolling hills, and painted so that it looks like a Rothko painting turned on its side. I'm really not that into barns, but this is a great barn.

Fortunately, he loves driving around the little forgotten highways out here, so it'll be an all-day outing (with me yelling "stop!" every other mile, of course). The just-inland parts of California between Santa Barbara and Monterey have some astonishingly beautiful scenery.

[DS1]

12. save up for this, next

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/279582-GREY/Canon_8806A002_17_40mm_f_4L_USM_Lens.html


I'm off to shoot the bed-race for yankee doodle week

[Shakespeare]

14. Mmmm. Want.

Added to the list.

Latest (little) toy - I finally got around to ordering a trigger-release ball head for my tripod.

[pokerfan]

19. Gotta love barns

Not one of mine, but from my neck of the woods:

[Fran Kubelik]

7. She smiles at me.

She takes care of me, makes me feel safe and loved. She does my laundry and cleans the house. She is extraordinarily patient and generous.

Oh, you said little things. :)
She goes for bike rides with me when she'd rather go for a walk. :)

[WinkyDink]

8. He refuses to let me do the dishes! And he laughs at my attempts at teh funny!

[fizzgig]

9. he holds me every night while we go to sleep

he's not really the most demonstrative guy, but he holds me until i fall asleep every night.

[RadiationTherapy]

11. She smells my laundry as she goes around the house picking up my clothes.

She let's me taste the food and critique it as she cooks; sometimes she starts over if I don't like it.

She lets me walk into the kitchen or bathroom while she cleans the floors.

She hangs my clean clothes up for me.

She lets me stay in bed if our daughter is sick or wakes in the middle of the night.

[Rhythm]

16. She kisses me at 8:26am or pm, even if she's busy doing something else...

I come running to give her kisses at 6:26.
Those are our birthdays, btw... and we've been doing this for years.

We do a thousand little things every day that say 'i love you' better than the words ever could.

[LaurenG]

17. Too many things, so many things.

Whatever I want, he is right there and if I mention something in passing he makes it happen. I am really lucky. :)

[jus_the_facts]

18. He works to support me without complaining that I don't work....

...he'll wash clothes and dishes and run errands when I don't feel like it...he lets me be me...unconditionally...we're friends first and foremost after 17 long years.

[WCGreen]

20. She doesn't strangle me in the middle of the night...

[lizziegrace]

30. hehe...

;)

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. SO much.

As official househusband right now, he keeps the laundry and dishes caught up while I'm working.

He spoons me at night when we go to bed, and in the morning before we get up.

Makes us coffee every morning.

Tells me he loves me constantly.

Loves my cooking. Yay me!

And the most important...when I fall asleep reading (as i do so many nights), he takes me glasses off, puts my book away, and tucks me in. That is how I feel safe and secure every night.

My reprehensor is the best. :loveya:

[Va Lefty]

22. She puts up with my yelling at TV during football season

[MadrasT]

23. Scoops the litterboxes.

And we have a lot of cats. That's some serious love.

[LeftyMom]

24. He calls me when it's already 3 am in his time zone, and he's tired

because he knows it'll make me happy.

[DS1]

25. SHE BOUGHT ME A MOTHERFUCKIN CHUGGO STICK

C'MON FUCKING CHICK

[Shakespeare]

26. Okay, that made me laugh.

:rofl:

[DS1]

27. Dude

I'll get pics of it around town later

[Parche]

33. Stick For You

Or her to use.................:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[Lyric]

28. Oh god. More than I could remember on the spot, but

some examples:

She's willing to put up with me being on the computer for 12+ hours at a time sometimes, when the pain is bad and I'm using it as a distraction.

She never leaves a room without asking me if there's anything I need, or anything she can get for me.

She kisses me at 6:26 every day, since 6/26 is my birthday. (I return with 8:26 for her.)

She stops in the middle of doing things to tell me how beautiful I look right then--the light catching my hair at a certain angle, my eyes being particularly bright that day, just anything.

We say "I love you" (and mean it) thirty-odd times a day or more. After nine years of living together.

She knows me well enough to navigate my temperament like a champ, with no resentment or obsession about who's "right" or what's "fair."

When my tender heart compels me to give away our last twenty bucks to some needy person on a street corner, she never tries to talk me out of it. She shares my values and priorities, and never complains when I don't put *our* family first and foremost every time. My ex-husband once berated me for two HOURS about giving away ten bucks to a hungry beggar, even though he and I together were making about a thousand dollars a week then. ThinkBlue1966 and I barely make $150 a week now, but she's behind me 100%. God I love her.

She communicates with me about EVERYTHING. I don't have to guess what she's thinking, or what she's upset about. She tells me, without hyperbole, and then we talk it over. When she's being moody (or I am) due to hormones, she recognizes it without sounding accusatory or defensive, and we get through it. We can talk about anything in the world. We are not jealous of each other.

She thinks I am the most beautiful, talented, intelligent, and fascinating person that she's ever met, and she tells me so every day. She genuinely feels lucky to be with me. That attitude healed enormous, gaping wounds in my self-esteem that had been around since my school days.

She's just amazing. Everyone should be so lucky to have someone like her.

[mokawanis]

29. backrubs

I just melt when she gives me a backrub. I never ask for them but she knows how much I crave them and offers them to me frequently.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. He does nothing around the house unless I tell him to.

So when I'm gone, nothing gets done.
He wants me to feel needed. :eyes:

[Red State Rebel]

32. He Rented A Truck & Moved My Furniture While I Was At Work!!

If that ain't love, I don't know what is!! Now I'm getting settled into my new house :)

[tigereye]

34. backrubs?

working full-time so I can have a more flexible work schedule to do fun and school stuff with the kid?