Romantic Gestures!

angeltreats

jo1967 wrote: »

I have been married over 19 years & I think its the little things that mean alot - for example hubby leaves for work before me and on these frosty morning I got out to my car & the windscreen has been cleared for me. Makes me smile!

My DH had cleared the snow off my windscreen when I went to work this morning. Very sweet of him. He also wrote me a message in the frosty windscreen the other day that made me smile.

We don't do an awful lot of very romantic things, but we do lots of little things for each other. He will often go through the TV guide for things I might like and record them for me, and I will bring him home treats when I'm doing the shopping, or get up five minutes earlier so I can iron a shirt for him as he hates doing it.

RoxieW

My Oh once bought me a really horrible 99p bag for my birthday - when i looked inside there was a promise to take me shopping for the handbag of my choice - I chose a mulberry and felt like julia roberts in pretty woman
He bought me a tiffany necklace for our anniversary. And a charm bracelet on our 'cardboard' anniversary so I really wasnt expecting that much.
Most romantic has to be an 'our' songs cd - which must have cost a couple of pounds to put together but he rarely does anything that takes effort and instead will spend money on grand gestures so it was really lovely to have something that had taken effort and time

RoxieW

ps he makes the cuppas too but i dont class that as romance - just a token of his appreciation that I did the cooking of dinner and the clearing and tidying up!

minerva_windsong

I've told this story on here before, but here goes:

My boyfriend's brother got married last December, and the day after the wedding we had to go into central London to return his usher's outfit to the hire shop. To make up for dragging me out in the freezing cold he promised to buy me a gingerbread latte from Starbucks as I love them. However, time did not allow for this and so I had to go without, and he kept apologising for it even though I was like, "It's fine, don't worry about it."

I went home the next day to spend Christmas with my family, then went back to London on New Year's Eve to spend it with him. When I got off the train he was standing on the platform holding the biggest gingerbread latte possible to buy. That meant loads to me, because he'd remembered.

bettybeaver

Not long after we were married my OH bought me one of the most unromantic of gifts for Valentines day................ a wooden toilet seat:rotfl: Still to this day he defends his purcase with the line 'but we needed one' but it gives me a chuckle every time I relate the story.

phunkles

Celebrated Christmas with me at the start of December 'cause we cant be together on real Christmas - even though he doesnt really like Christmas.
Adopted me a giraffe 'cause I said I liked them.
Cooked Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
Runs me baths.
Lets me pick the dvd to watch.
Texts me even when I know hes busy in work to say he loves me.


Yeh hes cool - can be a muppet at times but i does love him.

Gingham_Ribbon

My husband learned all my favourite songs on the guitar and played them for me one Christmas. He does things like that for me now and again and I love it. But without a doubt the most romantic thing is how he looks after me when I'm ill.

Spirit_2

He cleans out my chickens when I am tired.
He massages me all over (well almost - it does have salt in it:eek:) with my favourite oil/herb/salt scrub so that I have smooth soft sweet smelling skin.

At 10pm on Tuesday night he walked to meet me in the snow to bring my wellies as I walked the last couple of miles home after a 4.5 hour journey. He had already been stuck himself for a cople of hours hours and then had to walk home.

elfen

How my OH snuggles up to me before we go to sleep, and we have our pretend arguments.
How he makes me a cuppa if I'm feeling under the weather or worse than usual.
How he buys me little teddies from the places he stays (I have a lion and a moose)

I make sure dinner's ready if he's working late
Buy him things if I'm out in town

Steel_2

Hubby does small things every day, but has been known to go all out with romantic gestures.

But it's the small things I appreciate more as it shows he thinks about me often:

A cuppa after dinner
In the mornings, he lays out a cup with a teabag, sugar and spoon in it. Even the kettle is full and ready to switch on.
He builds massive hot fires for me to sit in front of because he knows I get cold
He runs my bath
He leaves little packets of Lovehearts around the place
If I'm out and the weather turns nasty, he'll either ring and arrange to pick me up so I don't have to get back on my own or, if he can't get hold of me, drive round and round until he spots me!
He cleans out the chickens
He gets up on Sunday mornings to open up the chickens and make me a cuppa instead of having a lie-in (he's usually out the door six days a week at 5am)
He always kisses me goodnight
In the winter my electric blanket will always be switched on when I get into bed
Occasionally I find all my herbs and spices have been taken out of the holder and arranged into 'XXX 'on the kitchen worksurface
I get silly, lovely presents from the cats
If he goes out for the day to pick up something or to go to one of his hobby meetings, I get a pocstcard from him sent from the place a few days later

Most romantic:

He took me to Paris and to the top of the Eiffel Tower to tell me he loved me for the first time.
I took him away for a weekend to a lighthouse B&B (birthday treat) and he proposed at the top by the light of a full moon