Your SO's Irresistable Quirks

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, so the SO and I are going through a real rough time right now. I started to think about things that we tend to pass up when relationships get rough. Its always the smallest things that we forget about. Its also those small things we need to remember.

So here is the place for you all to remember and share those little things. What little quirks does your SO have that you find absolutely adorable? What does he or she do that sometimes grates on your nerves, but that you find irresistably precious?

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One thing that my SO does has only been recently. I bought a Chinchilla. SO loves to talk and play with her! He will sit down on her level and just coo away at her as though she’s the cutest thing int he world. I get such a kick out of it!

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He sometimes like to sleep in very odd positions…like completely perpendicular to the “normal” sleeping position on a bed. I will wake up to find him lying across my feet, curled up like a little lap dog.

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He is constantly drumming out a beat. Sometimes I don’t think he realizes he’s doing it. He likes to use me as his drum set or his xylophone. It doesn’t matter what kind of music we are listening to, but he always plays the percussion part.

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He is always twirling his curls through his fingers. He has these tight little curls of hair that he always has one finger wrapped up around. Recently he has taken to flicking the hair at his ear. It’s the oddest thing, but so cute!

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He will go on and on about wanting to go out for food, then will only order a soda and french fries and nothing more.

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How every time we are in the car and Led Zeppelin is on the radio, he gets this silly grin and says “Today will be a good day, because LZ is on.”

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His imitations of Robert Plant.

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When he pretends like he thinks my middle name is something different than it actually is and convinces me that he really doesn’t know what it really is.

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His preferred breakfast food is cookies…the sugary the better…sometimes he insists that I feed him cookies in bed, all the while swearing he won’t get crumbs on the sheets (which still happens)

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When he gets in late at night and crawls under the covers and promptly sticks his coldest limbs onto my warmest parts and says like a 5yr old “wARm ME!”

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When I’m doing the dishes and he creeps up behind me, doing his latest African Dance move, then stops when I turn around

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When he makes faces at me until I catch him, then he ceases

I could go on, but now its YOUR turn to share!! What little things do you love about your SO?

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His sweet baby boy innocent smile. He has an everyday, bad boy grin, which is wonderful, but everyonce in a while he has this dear adorable smile that just makes me melt and want to show him all over again that life is a beautiful place.

His continual sense of humor. Nothing is sacred, everything is up for grabs and he just gets outrageous! And I laugh, and laugh and laugh.

The way he’ll play along with any game I hapen to start up. I’m a playful person…which can get annoying to some people but he seems to have infinite tolerance for it.

The way he thinks about animals. He looks at thier personalities as individuals and plays favorites. (He’s living with a dog named Scooby that he adores…he’ll play Scooby games for hours.)

Sigh…the way he thinks, moves and breathes…I miss the lovely hoodlum.

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We sleep with separate blankets because it’s better that way…no one wakes up cold in the middle of the night.

BUT

She tries to sneak into mine every night, just for a few minutes. And she always tries to sneak. It’s cute.

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How do I love thee, Mr. Sunshine? Let me count the ways…

I love…

They way you make that little humming noise when you’re concentrating.

The fact that you hate to wear pants in the house, and every day when I come home from work, I know you’re there somewhere because I just tripped over your pants when I walked in the door.

The goofy way you moon me before you get into the shower.

The fact that you always wash the dishes because you know I don’t like what it does to my hands.

That you buy me a new windshield every time it gets the slightest crack, because you think if I got in an accident it would decapitate me.

That you carry a million things in your pockets. (Maybe that’s why you don’t like to wear pants?)

The fact that ice cream is your favorite food.

They way you come lay on me when I’m on the couch…even though there are 37 other places you could sit.

That no matter what I cook or how bad it is, you always thank me for dinner.

That you want me to wash your hair.

That when you’re alone with me, you’re actually silly and fun and not the quiet, serious person everyone else sees.

That you picked me out of all the other girls in the world.

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Mine hangs on in his sleep. Since I sleep a lot less than he does, I usually wake up earlier - this morning he had both ankles locked around my feet, and an arm thrown across me. When I tried to get up he tightened his grip and made a little grunty noise that clearly meant “Mine!” Totally asleep, had no idea he did it… I may never get over it. Sappy, yes, but unbelievably cute.

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My girlfriend has a chinchilla as well and I find it interesting that we both talk in these baby-voices when usually we only talk in long, nerdy words. Also, speaking of 5-year old phrases, my gf ALWAYS says, “Baby me!”. Sometimes it’s cute; sometimes it’s not. Depends on if I’m in the mood to do so or not, I reckon. I digress:

When she’s upset over something, she’ll pout.

When she first wakes up and her curly hair looks like Medusa (no really, it’s cute! :slight_smile:

Her ‘thinking’ look. (Includes bottom lip out, top set of teeth biting it)

How crazy she gets over animals.

Attempts to cook for me (I probably shouldn’t be complaining)

Downright adorable when she’s got a little buzz going

That her house (her room) is always a pit. It’s so cute when she’s standing in the middle of these piles of clothes that are half as tall as she is going, “where’s my earring?”.

Yawns and stretches when she’s sleepy. Definately.

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Babe’s babe wears contacts, and partially fills the sink basin in the bathroom to take them out. She NEVER empties the water out, so if I come home late, I can look in the bathroom sink and see right away if she’s gone to bed.
The way she jokes with Baby Babes I and II. BBI will ask for pink ice cream (strawberry). My wife will in dead seriousness, look in the refrigerator and say “We don’t have any pink ice cream, All we have is brocolli.” (or brussels sprouts, or hot dog, etc.) The momentary look of bewilderment on BBI’s face before she gets the joke is something I have never been able to evoke.
She can switch from super-mom to I-don’t-care-where-we-go-'cause-it’s-time-with-my-honey date in nothing flat.
She has really opened up my father, who was always nice, but not emotional at all.
She insists that we call each other each night if we’re apart, usu. about bedtime.
She also bites her straws, making them flat. That bugs the crap out of me if we are sharing a drink. But, I do smile whenever I see that. Now BBI is starting to do that too. Damn.
Sorry to hear about the SO problems Mel. One suggestion might be to have him make a similar list about you. You could show each other the list or not. Whichever, it could get you both thinking.

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Babe’s babe wears contacts, and partially fills the sink basin in the bathroom to take them out. She NEVER empties the water out, so if I come home late, I can look in the bathroom sink and see right away if she’s gone to bed.
The way she jokes with Baby Babes I and II. BBI will ask for pink ice cream (strawberry). My wife will in dead seriousness, look in the refrigerator and say “We don’t have any pink ice cream, All we have is brocolli.” (or brussels sprouts, or hot dog, etc.) The momentary look of bewilderment on BBI’s face before she gets the joke is something I have never been able to evoke.
She can switch from super-mom to I-don’t-care-where-we-go-'cause-it’s-time-with-my-honey date in nothing flat.
She has really opened up my father, who was always nice, but not emotional at all.
She insists that we call each other each night if we’re apart, usu. about bedtime.
She also bites her straws, making them flat. That bugs the crap out of me if we are sharing a drink. But, I do smile whenever I see that. Now BBI is starting to do that too. Damn.
Sorry to hear about the SO problems Mel. One suggestion might be to have him make a similar list about you. You could show each other the list or not. Whichever, it could get you both thinking.

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My GF has a thing for cute socks. She has socks with little yellow and black bumblebees, socks with little red ladybugs (and one yellow ladybug near the ankle), socks with snowflakes for winter and pumpkins for Halloween, socks with little daisies. I think she’s absolutley adorable when she’s all dressed professionally for work, and I lift her cuffs a little and she’s wearing bee socks. It makes me want to pinch her cheeks, she’s so CA-YUTE!

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The boy had a habit of shaking off crumbs. He swears that he is shaking them on to the floor, but because he does it without thinking, he shakes them into the bed. I get mad, but secretly, he’s so cute when he’s doing it.

He is a very analytical thinker, very mathmatical based. He’ll get it into his head to try to figure out crazy odds and he’ll start writing on his dry-erase board til he gets it.

He uses graph paper for everything, notes, scratch paper etc.

His long hair is almost always messy and he never ties it back. He’s told me that he doesn’t have to brush his hair.

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Thanks Abe. That’s part of my goal here with this. He’s already succeeded in finding the thread, I will say that much. :wink:

Besides, its always nice to read what others love about their own SO’s…reading the ones here so far have brought a big smile to my face…I hope they keep coming!