Moms (and Dads, please!)
When I left for work this morning, I saw that my husband had left a bouquet of fresh-picked flowers on the hood of my car for me. It was the sweetest thing- I felt like a giddy teenage girl and it made me feel so loved. It's nice to know that after all this time he still thinks to do things like that.
Anyway, I want to return the favor in some way. I don't do enough for him to let him know how much I still think of him, how his touch still gives me goosebumps, how I want to giggle like a little girl when he gives me that look.
Do you have any ideas for a little gesture that would make his day the way he made mine today? Preferably nothing sexual- we already have a great sex life, I'd like for this to be just something that makes him feel loved.
Thanks!
Write down what you did here (his touch still gives you goosebumps, etc) and stick the note in his underwear drawer.
ahhhh that is the sweetest thing ever! You guys have come so far. I wouldn't do anything like that today - then it seems like a tit for tat thing and isn't as special as the way he suprised you. I would text or email him those feelings you just expressed to us. Just thank him, tell him how it made you feel and how you still feel about him.
Then, later, next week, next month, some time when he least expects it, do something nice for him. That might be tickets to a ranger game left on his nightstand, call a delivery place and have his favorite sandwhich brought to him at work, pay somebody to come do the yard work and give him a "saturday off" where he can just lay around and watch someone else do his chores, maybe take a half a day off and go pick him up at lunch for a lunch date. My husband stopped by my office last week, just to say hello. It melted my heart and gave me that old crush feeling. It's the simple things that move us.
Maybe you could pick him up at work as a surprise and take him out to a nice restaurant? It would have to be later this week when he's not expecting it (And when you have a sitter lined up).
Does he have a favorite food you can make for dinner? Or dessert you can bake for him?
Or sometimes, when he comes home, I will have him sit down, bring him the paper, ask him if he would like a drink etc. Generally pamper him... he loves it and I have fun with it since I don't HAVE to do it...
How sweet!
-write down the reasons you love him. gv to him when he gets home from
work
-make his favorite foods for dinner
-tonight after dinner give him a full back massage & foot rub
-send him an email at work telling him that you loved waking up to find
those flowers on your car and that you still love him so much after all
your years together.
-pick up his favorite snacks
-have pizza delivered to his work
Just some ideas. Hope that helps. Good for you both! :)
Date night if you don't get them often, or like someone else said suprise him at work for lunch.
Make it a point to start texting him a little message about how much you love him daily?
Also text or email a big thank you and say what you said here
Get a small but nice notebook or journal and write one loving word or thought on each page for him. You never run out of words when you are passionate about someone or something.
I second the love note(s). That's what touches my man. It depends on what he is most receptive to - words, food, physical affection (not necessarily sexual), running one of his errands, etc. Thanks for sharing! It's nice to read about a loving relationship :)
Maybe make his favorite meal for him or a favorite dessert. Can you take lunch to him at work?
Cook is favorite diner and open a bottle of wine. Wait until the kids are asleep adn have a quiet diner togehter
This might sound silly, but did he ever collect baseball cards or comic books when he was a kid? My husband will pick up a little pack of baseball or football cards "for the boys" every once in a while. That could be a cute (and cheap) gesture for your husband if he's into that sort of thing. Or maybe his favorite candy bar or an action figure :-)
It's hard to say without knowing what his interests are. But that's also the difference between boys and girls. Girls are into gestures, boys not so much. But there are two universal guy truths - there is no such thing as too much sex and there is never enough time. So I would work on finding him some time to do something he likes.
