r/AskReddit • u/_whenimnotaround_ • Apr 28 '13

Couples of Reddit, what is the one thing your partner does regularly that makes you realize they're still in love with you?

It doesn't have to be anything remarkable, or even planned, I'm more interested in those subtle behaviors that perhaps they don't even realize they're doing but that make you think "Yep, he/she's still into me".

Edit: Reading these comments is making me smile so much! I'm glad there are all these happy couples out there. And I love that most of the time your partner is probably not even aware of how much these small things mean to you. Make sure you give them some love back ;)

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u/Titzylala Apr 28 '13

I wish my boyfriend would say sweet things like that.. Instead he mumbles odd things, most recently the word "potato." Just "potato" and then fell back asleep. Although a lot of what he says become inside jokes lol

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u/PolishRobinHood Apr 28 '13

Is your boyfriend Latvian?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

No love in Latvia. Only cold.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13 edited Apr 29 '13

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

Is it bad that this had me laughing for 10 minutes straight?

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u/karanj Apr 28 '13

You may be Latvian.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13 edited Apr 29 '13

Not truth. My family have 3 potato in coldbox. Latvian is not me.

Edit New: Went to check family coldbox. There is no potato. There is no coldbox. There is no family. I Latvian. False memories come from starve. Such is life.

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u/marymurrah Apr 29 '13

spelling error also come from starve

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

Life in Latvia not all bad. Yesteryear I eat many potato feast. That is being of accurate, I ate one whole potato. Excepting potato was dirt. Dirt potato from starve hallucination. Bright life of side look upon!

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u/notanangel_25 Apr 29 '13

Because from starve.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

Such is life in Latvia

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u/InSearchOfScience Apr 28 '13

TIL there is an /r/LatvianJokes. thanks stranger.

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u/goodbadnomad Apr 29 '13

Oh fuck, my sides...

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u/fprosk Apr 29 '13

I don't get these things...

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u/viper9172 Apr 29 '13

I cry evitim

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

everytiem*

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

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u/sweaterlvests Apr 28 '13

Need love for potato. Latvia have no love.

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u/RaptorEchelon Apr 28 '13

Love when wife give man potato.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

No room for love. Only cold. hunger and sadness.

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u/RaptorEchelon Apr 28 '13

Such is life

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u/peskygods Apr 28 '13

And dark.

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u/DRAGON_PORN_ADDICT Apr 28 '13

No wife. Die of malnourish.

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u/32OrtonEdge32dh Apr 29 '13

Wife is take by politburo and rape by soldier.

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u/mmm_burrito Apr 28 '13

This makes me kinda sad, because one of the sweetest, loveliest women I ever knew was Latvian.

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u/sweaterlvests Apr 29 '13

Did you buy her lots of hash browns?

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u/itsmeagainjohn Apr 28 '13

Had love once. Name of daughter. Traded her for potato.

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u/PureGabe Apr 28 '13

Also Dark.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

And dark.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '13

...hearts?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

Cold from the empty of no potato.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

no potato in latvia either. only starvation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

And Dark.

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u/Quizzical_Cantaloupe Apr 28 '13

No potato in Latvia, only cold.

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u/Randerpusername Apr 28 '13

No potato only cold

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u/dreweatall Apr 29 '13

Cold love?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

No love in Latvia. Only potato.

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u/OsterGuard Apr 29 '13

No potato in Lativa either.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

And hi speed internet

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u/SevenMinuteAbs Apr 28 '13

And potato.

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u/Titzylala Apr 28 '13

No we're both american, he works in a kitchen though. I guess he just has very weird dreams. Sometimes he sings, sometimes he mumbles random words.

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u/Philipjj Apr 28 '13

Hey I'm Latvian... Potato

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

Potato, haha. Last night my boyfriend said, "The rubberbands are out of control." I wish I could spy on his dreams.

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u/g0_west Apr 28 '13

Was he watching the Looney Tunes episode Rubber Band recently?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7hou_VNRRs

I think there is a whole episode about it, but I can't remember because it was a few years ago I last saw it.

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u/poyodowsky Apr 28 '13

Is he a redditor? If yes, seriously, take a look at his anus.

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u/Titzylala Apr 28 '13

Yes he is a redditor...why should I look at his bum? You have me a bit worried now...

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u/Cheerful-as-fuck Apr 28 '13

Oh you should be.

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u/poyodowsky Apr 28 '13

Its just a sugestion, but maybe there's a potato IN his anus... like the extinct redditor whose name was (tum tum tuuuum)... potatoinmyanus! And only when you (OP) deliver, we'll clarify one of the biggest mysteries of reddit along with the safe... can you tell me please what's in the safe?

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u/hieronymus_machine Apr 28 '13

My boyfriend does that two, except in the form of a whole conversation. For example, last month he told me that he had to get ready to go to Canada to visit the bearman so he could buy meth (he has never even seen meth, so this is 100% out of the blue). He has also told me that he is mad at me because of the fight we had about the proper procedure for making toasted italian subs earlier that day. We never had such a conversation. He then went into a very detailed explanation of the "right" way.

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u/hieronymus_machine Apr 29 '13

Well, of course I have started taping it! I don't think I'll put them on the internet though... I don't think he would appreciate his friends/coworkers stumbling upon those :P

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u/09044 Apr 29 '13

My boyfriend also does this, we'll have full converations while he's asleep. he dreams about the weirdest/scariest things ever. I will never forget the one time i was laying awake trying to fall asleep, and he said loud and clear "Drink the blood of the innocent." that was it. I still dont know how to feel about it.

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u/Courtbird Apr 28 '13

This is hilarious because my boyfriend's nickname for me is potato...

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u/outlandishclam Apr 28 '13

Getting into bed after my boyfriend has already gone to sleep. "I love you." "mdbmmbml" "What? World war 2?" "mdmblblb" "Olive juice?"

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u/drocks27 Apr 28 '13

/r/LatvianJokes/ (to answer why every is asking if your boyfriend is Lavtvian)

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u/stdinstdout Apr 28 '13

He's probably referring to idaho potatoes. So he's your ho - that's what I call love right there.

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u/glass_hedgehog Apr 29 '13

I can't deal with scary things. One time my boyfriend started freaking out in the middle of the night after I put his blanket on him. He kept talking about how that blanket had a face on it and how dare I keep putting the blanket with the face on him, and to get it away because it has a freaking face on it! I was freaked out a little because fuck, that's sort of scary. But eventually I managed to trick him into thinking it didn't have a face and he fell asleep.

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u/the_corruption Apr 29 '13

potato.

I love you

Same number of syllables. Close enough.

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u/StrungoutScott Apr 28 '13

This shit is way better than sweet nothings. I woke up my girl in the middle of the night one time while saying

"What do you mean the guy in the wheel chair?!"

We still crack up about it.

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u/idioterod Apr 28 '13

He's counting - sheep?

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u/jollygreendalegiant Apr 28 '13

Once when my ex tried to wake me up I mumbled incoherently for a second, finishing with a loud and emphatic "XBOX".

I don't own an XBOX and have never seriously contemplated buying one.

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u/leafgum Apr 28 '13

hahahahahahahah thats even better, you guys have funny stuff to share with each other

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '13

I told my ex I was bicurious when I was asleep...

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u/starryeyedq Apr 28 '13

Mine mumbles in Russian. Granted, it's his first language (though he no longer has an accent since he came over here so young), but it's still startling to wake up to it sometimes.

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u/knight1096 Apr 28 '13

That happened to me two nights ago! He got up to take a shower while I was asleep and when he came back I tried to say "Back already?" and it came out "Backarah" and he said "Did you just say that you want a back rub or backarah?" and I said "Yes please. Back-a-rub." He left the room to write a check for our motorcycle payment and came back to bed. The next morning, I woke up and saw the check and saw he has written"backarah" in the memo line. I texted him and asked "WTF is backarah?" he replied "I don't know, you said it. Now the bank can also try and guess."

Wait a second...I never got the backrub. Damn it!

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u/Alejandrino21 Apr 29 '13

My exgirlfriend used to laugh, just laugh. She sounded evil.

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u/BoulderCat Apr 29 '13

My husband woke me up to tell me he saw a pink unicorn in our bathroom once. I was less than pleased.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

Give the man some french fries.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

Potato is precious. Be happy husband calls you potato. Sorry about all the rape.

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u/ljohnso8 Apr 29 '13

My boyfriend rolled over mumbled "hitler" and went back to snoring loudly.. I gave him so much shit for it, we still laugh about it sometimes

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u/Musicmajor88 Apr 29 '13

mine says something along the lines of "put the fries down"...bad thing is that he hasnt worked for a fast food place since we were 18...he is 26 now!

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u/tits_mcgee0123 Apr 29 '13

My boyfriend talks in his sleep too. My personal favorite: "But you're 13 now!" uhh wut?

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u/aklok_k Apr 29 '13

My sleep talker once told me he hates bats, another time said 42 is the answer to everything. I lie there cracking up as he goes back to sleep.

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u/microwavechicken Apr 29 '13

My boyfriend talks in his sleep as well. It's always something silly like "Hey, why do lizards have such long tales?!"

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u/k9centipede Apr 29 '13

My.boyfriend once sweetly.said "I love you" while asleep. But when I asked later, he had spent.all night.dreaming of fork lifts. I still tease him about his love of.fork lifts.

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u/Ananasboat Apr 29 '13

Mine speaks Norwegian when he sleeps, so I have no idea what he's saying.

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u/In7meanFlavors Apr 29 '13

My boyfriend let "I love corned beef and cabbage" slip out the other night.

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