Why do you love your Significant Other?

[Magpie]

I'd love to know - what has your partner done lately that has you looking at him or her and thinking, "What a great guy!" (Or gal!)

Last Saturday, my husband and I went downtown to pick up a component for our computer. The store is right by his office. As we were walking past, a homeless guy lying on the sidewalk greeted my husband.

My husband stopped and greeted the guy by name, and then said, "This is my wife!" and introduced us, very proudly. Then he explained that he didn't have any change on him at the moment, but if the guy hung around, he'd be back in a few minutes.

As we were walking away, my husband said to me, "That's my guy. I always stop and say hi, whenever I see him."

Well, we go and buy our computer bit, and on our way back we run into my husband's "guy" again. He asks my husband what we bought, and my husband launches into a highly technical description, without any hesitation, describing what's gone wrong with our computer and what he's got to do to fix it (none of which I understand, to be honest). They have a short friendly conversation, and then my husband gives him a dollar.

I was surprised my husband hadn't dumbed down his explanation any for the guy, so I asked him about it as we were driving home. "Well, while we were in the store I was thinking," said my husband. "I thought he might ask, and I thought about giving him a simplified explanation. But then I thought, well, if he doesn't understand then he'll just ask. Or he won't. But either way it's better to assume he understands, than assume he doesn't."

And you know? That just turned me into a big ol' melty pile of goo.

THIS is why I love this guy. He's the sort of fellow who cares about the dignity of a street person.

So...

Tell me why you love YOUR partner. I'd love to hear your story!

 

[Handbag Lady]

I'd love to know - what has your partner done lately that has you looking at him or her and thinking, "What a great guy!" (Or gal!)

Last Saturday, my husband and I went downtown to pick up a component for our computer. The store is right by his office. As we were walking past, a homeless guy lying on the sidewalk greeted my husband.

My husband stopped and greeted the guy by name, and then said, "This is my wife!" and introduced us, very proudly. Then he explained that he didn't have any change on him at the moment, but if the guy hung around, he'd be back in a few minutes.

As we were walking away, my husband said to me, "That's my guy. I always stop and say hi, whenever I see him."

Well, we go and buy our computer bit, and on our way back we run into my husband's "guy" again. He asks my husband what we bought, and my husband launches into a highly technical description, without any hesitation, describing what's gone wrong with our computer and what he's got to do to fix it (none of which I understand, to be honest). They have a short friendly conversation, and then my husband gives him a dollar.

I was surprised my husband hadn't dumbed down his explanation any for the guy, so I asked him about it as we were driving home. "Well, while we were in the store I was thinking," said my husband. "I thought he might ask, and I thought about giving him a simplified explanation. But then I thought, well, if he doesn't understand then he'll just ask. Or he won't. But either way it's better to assume he understands, than assume he doesn't."

And you know? That just turned me into a big ol' melty pile of goo.

THIS is why I love this guy. He's the sort of fellow who cares about the dignity of a street person.

So...

Tell me why you love YOUR partner. I'd love to hear your story!

Because he gave me a diamond ring when he proposed! (I am kidding, this is a reference to another thread...)




I have been dieting. I've lost 22 pounds so far. It hasn't been easy. We were out and about two weekends ago and I had meant to stop an buy me a little trinket from our favorite jeweler. (Okay, I am not obsessed with jewelry, just a coincidence we were in Laguna Beach where our jeweler is located). They have these cute little $40 rings in silver and I wanted another one with a purple stone. But...

I saw this gorgeous bracelet. It was more than the ring. Husband sees it, says it is totally me and so we buy it. He usually thinks that overspending is silly (I agree) but said I deserved it after trying so hard to eat healthy.

So cut to this morning. I'm driving us into work (we carpool) and he points at my bracelet (the same one) and says, "Oh, you have your skinny bracelet on!"

I just melted. I am no where even near the neighborhood of skinny yet, but that made my day.

 

[nmmom95]

He can come up with a movie reference for almost any occasion. This weekend I was complaining about myself and he responded with "Don't sell yourself short, you're a tremendous slouch." (Caddyshack fans?) I laughed and felt better. He can always do that.

 

[JessicaR]

Why do you love your Significant Other?
Well sheesh somebody has to if not me who?

Kidding, most of the time.

OK lets see - He is considerate of my feelings. Cares about my well being. Saves me when I need saving. Picks me up when I'm down. Makes me laugh when I'm sad. Buys me unexpected extremely thoughtful things that dont have to be expensive just very thoughtful. Fills my gas tank when I don't. Fixes absolutely anything and everything that breaks. Found bought and restored my most favorite car as a surprise for my 40th birthday. Would give the shirt off his back to anyone in need. Stops all the time when someone if broken down on the side of the road.

Doesn't say no to any animal I need to rescue. Never says NO when I want to go to Universal or Disney!

The last thing he did that reminded me of all the above is sent out to be restored my grandparents cuckoo clock that I have had broken forever. He spent days locating someone that was able to fix it and then surprised me with it hanging in my kitchen.

 

[Pakey]

He doesn't try to change me.

He respects me.

He has taken great care of me the past 3 years as I've battled cancer.

 

[minkydog]

My DH drives me to distraction, but I love him because he puts up with my mood swings and depression. He's supportive no matter what and genuinely tries to help me cope, despite his own serious illness. Neither one of us could make it without the other. We're like a set of leaning bookends.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I love my DBF because:

We have the same values and life goals and we are already working with each other to achieve them. We've discussed little things, like how big of a wedding do we want (we agree on VERY SMALL), what kind of house do we want, do we want children (we've already named them ), etc.

We have MANY of the same interests. But not all.

Three months after we started dating, I lost my job. I went back to school in the meantime...six months ago, I took a temp job just to make a little money...one month ago, my hours were cut to 20...and he's still with me. He says he's never given any thought to breaking up with me because of it either. He says "it happens; I could lose my job someday, too."

He never tried to impress me. From the minute we met, he was just himself. It was probably on our second or third dinner date that he dribbled food on his shirt...he just shrugged and said, "I do that all the time. My sister does it, too." And he doesn't buy me a lot of gifts, but when he does, they are often small but significant. For example, on his last trip to Florida to visit his parents, he went to the flea market and happened to find a vinyl 12" single by the Duran Duran offshoot band Arcadia. It only cost him $1. And it was one of the BEST gifts he's given me! My birthday was last Friday, and instead of giving me a knick-knack or jewelry, he presented me with two tickets to see Star Wars in Concert this Thursday night. He knows me so well

I think I knew on our first date that he'd be a keeper. That first date, for coffee, lasted 4 1/2 hours. We just kept talking and talking and talking...and we still do! Due to my lack of income, we don't go out very often. There are many evenings that we just put on the TV and ignore it while we talk all night. And sometimes, we don't even talk...one time, after sitting on the floor for 3 hours while putting together a jigsaw puzzle, we realized that we pretty much haven't spoken to each other at all. And it was still good.

 

[ziggystardust]

He makes my iced tea for me (for the week) every sunday night without complaint, or me asking.

He always grabs my hand when we're sitting on the couch or laying in bed watching tv.

He lets me take the remote when i get home from work.

He goes above and beyond for me, my friends, my family, and his as well. You can tell a lot about a person when they will drop everything to run over to his father's house to help take out the garbage

 

[NMAmy]

What a great story, OP.

I tend to gush about DH if you get me started so I'll just post the most recent thing. I threw my back out last week--of course, this happened the morning after I'd bought nine big plants to put into the back garden and in the middle of a heat wave. DH has been doing everything around the house including rushing to pick up items I've dropped in an attempt to get me from hurting myself again.

Because I haven't been able to walk the steps out to the back yard, I didn't realize that he'd been babying those nine plants in this heat wave to keep them alive for me. He told me he'd have planted them for me but he didn't want me to try to walk down the steps to show him where I wanted them so he'd hoped I'd forgotten about them until I was better.

I him.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I don't even know where to start. He spoils me so much, it's not even funny.

He goes out of his way to do little things to make my life easier. He was out of town Monday and Tuesday, and he had my van. He filled it up with gas (it had a little less than 1/2 tank) and 2:30 this morning when he got back to town because I had to go to the doctor today, and my drive is about an hour to get there. He didn't want me to have to stop.

He also stopped in the middle of the night and got cash out for me to take today because I don't have a debit card (long story there); I could have gone to the bank on my way out of town, but he didn't want me to have to.

On Monday, before he left, he put dinner together so all I would have to do was bake it.

Little things like that, but it's every day.

I'm having a bad year at work, tons and tons of stress, and he's been there to listen, etc., every day when I come home. He keeps telling me to quit if I want to, and we'll figure it out (we can pay the bills without my income, but it would be tight).

I could go on and on, but you get the point.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Great thread I love stories like this. Okay, so going with just one recent thing:

My husband travels about 40 weeks a year on business. Lately many of those trips have been to a small town in the Czech Republic. For those he drives. It generally takes him about 7 hours each way. Often he has to make the trip alone.
About two months ago he got home late on a Friday having been caught in a traffic jam from a wreck. It had taken him 9 1/2 lonely hours to get home. When he got home he said he was not setting foot in the car again until Monday (when he had to drive back again). Saturday morning I had the oral exam for my German class I have been taking. I got home and he was loading a suitcase into the car. He told me my dad (with was supposed to come see us the next weekend--visiting from Mexico and whom I have only gotten to see 5 times in the past 13 years) called from Bavaria and offered to put us up for the night at the hotel he was staying at if we could drive down (it was supposed to be a romantic weekend with his girlfriend but they were not getting along). David knows I hate driving and did not want me to have to drive it alone so he drove me and the kids down (and stayed the weekend too) 4 hours each way so I could have those extra 30 or so hours (well less if you figure we slept in that time) with my dad. He even packed everything so we could leave the minute I was home.

 

[ChristaDeVil]

He can come up with a movie reference for almost any occasion. This weekend I was complaining about myself and he responded with "Don't sell yourself short, you're a tremendous slouch." (Caddyshack fans?) I laughed and felt better. He can always do that.

Mine does this, too, and it just makes my day better. For instance, last week, I was having a crappy day (or as I call them "Tuesday"). He had just gotten his iPhone4 (I got mine the week before), so he called me on FaceTime and proceeded to run through the warehouse attached to his office, pretending to be chased by zombies. I love sci-fi and horror movies, so that just made my day!

 

[gilby]

Its all the little things he does.

 

[wdwfan16]

He loves me for who I am and never says stuff like "our marriage is no cheating zone".

He trusts me.

He respects me.

He helps without complaining.

He cooks, cleans, does laundry, does dishes or any other task that needs to be done in the home. He does not believe in "woman's" or "man's" work.

He is kind and compassionate.

He is always kind to others even when the person is a stranger.

His love is unconditional.

 

[dejr_8]

She puts up with me

 

[jsmith]

because after all the time together and all the things we have been thru every time he grins at me my heart stops and my breath catchs.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Lately that is a toughie since I've been home alone a while, had a baby 2 months ago and am sorting a 1500 square foot home and have packed about 70% of what we are taking...but.....

*he bought us a house and sacrificed more savings than he wanted to get us into something safe that would work for our family
*he has lived like a pauper with no furniture other Han the new bed we agreed upon. He has a "poor man's man cave". I know that man cave grates on some people...but his "cave" is a free flat screen that buzzes that someone got rid of and a lawn chair. If you knew my husband---he is exercising incredible restraint and patience.

*he did a spontaneous trip home a few weeks ago. We had a big gap and we missed him. I had expected him to book it the next week and to my surpises he came home THAT DAY!!!!!

*he transported all of our pets including the bunny so that noone would have to find a new home...

*and he put up with my issues for years while I resolved them. In retrospect, I have no idea how he didn't run in the opposite direction!

*and he calls daily, but loses points when he wakes me up at 7am.

I like to return the favor on weekends when he is sleeping in.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Because she made a coconut custard pie for dessert tonight.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I love him because he is a strong, loving, playful, loyal man.
There is nobody I rather spend time with & thank God everyday that we are a team that have survived so many heartbreaking situations & come out the other side stronger.

 

[momof1princess]

i love my DH because he is faithful, kind, considerate and very loving. even when i weighed 375 pounds, he loved me. when i had gastric bypass surgery, he loved me. he helped me shower, helped me in the bathroom-he even stuck a long, wooden-handled q-tip into a hole in my abdomen several times a day to help clean out an infection from the surgical drain.
even though i now have tons of loose skin (i'm half the woman i once was, literally), which we can't afford to have removed, he loves me anyway, and tells me i am sexy and beautiful, several times a day. i will never be thin, or beautiful, but he loves me, regardless.