A nice romantic thread

We were married when I was 17. Our song at that time was ‘they tried to tell us we’re too young’, as many people thought it will never last. Now 52 years later my OH tells me every day ‘you are still beautiful’. Nothing to do with his failing eyesight of course. I’m not so romantic I’m afraid.

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Kandinsky - my DH is like yours. He wouldn't know a romantic gesture if it smacked him in the face! I have had to learn to live with it over more than 40 years, but I just wish that he would just occasionally do something more romantic than offer to vacuum the carpets.

Same here?
Although I do appreciate the vacuuming being done?

I have chosen to forget the romantic gestures I made as my ex-husband clearly didn’t appreciate them.

However, he always bought me flowers every Friday (even the Friday before he walked out on the Monday).

Been happily married 41 years but not really overly "romantic" or hearts and flowersy type people. In our first year, I think, hubby wrote a little poem about me called "Green eyed girl" (as a nod to Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl.) It was very sweet, though probably not technically very good!!! We do a lot of little everyday caring things for each other, and actions speak louder than words or typically romantic gestures!

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I made heart shaped scones once and put them in DH’s lunch box - he opened it at a site meeting surrounded by hairy-assed builders and was not impressed.....?

I bet they were just jealous

After 52 years of marriage my husband still occasionally texts me to say "I just called to say I love you".
I know this is not romantic but I hope it is thoughtful, he loves a crisp unread front section of the Telegraph. I leave this for him and I read The Times and at weekend I leave both front pieces of the papers. I must admit I like the magazines and other sections anyway.

My OH got me a box of notes for each day of the year for Christmas this year - all with individual thoughts of what I mean to him.

His father last year wrote a card to his mother to ask her to marry him again - they had been married by that time for 67 years and were always so in love. She unfortunately passed away on the night of the 29th December this year and he is bereft without her but she died with him holding her hand, lying next to her, in bed at home, not in pain and just from “old age” - who can ask for better than that?

Kandinsky - my DH is like yours. He wouldn't know a romantic gesture if it smacked him in the face! I have had to learn to live with it over more than 40 years, but I just wish that he would just occasionally do something more romantic than offer to vacuum the carpets.

My husband isn't a romantic type
However quite a few years ago when money was exceptional tight one Valentine's Day he gave me a chocolate rose . I got so cranky , he said "don't get cranky I found the coins in the car and it was only $1 , I just wanted to give you something"
He has does a few romantic things , my very laid back pragmatic husband

I entered myself and then fiancé into a ‘find the most romantic couple’ in the town I was living in competition, and we won! He is now my husband of 13 years and we both continue to be romantic with each other. We feel it’s an important part of our marriage and makes us both feel very loved.

My husband used to write “I love you” in the condensation on the kitchen window, or the same message etched in the frost on the car roof.

There was an article in, I think, the now defunct, London Evening News, that I read to my wife back some fifty years ago. The reporter, interviewing a couple who were celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary, asked how they kept the romance alive. The wife said that they had never had a cross word.

My wife responded to this by saying, "I bet they have never been on a dance floor." I tell you, when you are learning a new dance routine, the spats come thick and fast. I had to laugh, adding, "the only love that I can think of that is always constant, is zero in a tennis match." "About right," my wife concurred.

I travelled over 400 miles to surprise my ex. He wasn't my ex at the time, obviously.

Luckily, he was very happy to see me.

My DH proposed to me just 6weeks after we met, but due to the long hours he worked, he was never available during office hours to actually book our Registry office wedding. One day just after he surprised me me with an Engagement ring on Christmas Eve, l rang to make an appointment at the local Office and managed to book the Wedding myself. When the official Notification dropped through my Door, l took the spare key to his works Van that l kept for emergencies, crept into it on the car park of the place he was Working at, and left the official looking Brown envelope with a box containing enough Cream cakes for him and the rest of his work mates to share, and wrote Congratulations across his windscreen with a red lipstick! His workmates, one of which was my Cousin, said he didn’t know whether to Laugh or Cry, so ended up doing both!
34 years and two daughters later, and we are still together and Happy, although my Parents were shocked at the time and said that it would never last!

My dh is very loving all the time but rarely buys flowers or gifts.

I'm not at all romantic but we know we love each other a lot.

We once stayed in a beautiful hotel with a four poster. Knowing I loved Pride and Prejudice my OH came out of the bathroom dripping wet, wearing a white shirt, jodhpurs and carrying riding boots! He definitely is my Mr Darcy. (I'm no Elizabeth Bennett, I was more of a Bridget Jones!)

My husband always cooks a favourite meal on my birthday and Valentine's day.

I’ve been married for 35 years & can honestly say my husband has never done anything romantic whatsoever.
He thinks the fact that he’s never had an affair or left me is enough
That actually makes me very sad as I love romantic gestures - totally given up now though.

My DH hasn’t a romantic bone in his body.
An example, when he was serving in the army in Northern Ireland, BFBS visited the barracks, the presenter was Gloria Hunniford, she asked if he’d like a record played. Yes, he said, Every Time we say Goodbye by Ella Fitzgerald please, would you like it played for anyone special, no, he says, I just love the song.

That wasn’t the only time!

My bloke and I had a secret liaison....while working at the same educational establishment. I used to find love letters in my pigeon hole ....( absolutely no double entendre thank you)

Just as well there wasn’t one when sending a student to the staff room to ask someone to get the worksheets from my pigeon hole.......

We stand at the altar we were married at every year on the date and time of the wedding...45 years and counting.Until this year when we had to stand outside because the church was closed due to Covid

I don’t think there’s one specific thing, DH and I used to send love letters, he lived in N Ireland for the first year, he also used to get bouquets delivered, on a Friday, when I was in the local with friends. I still buy him chocolates occasionally, he gets me flowers, sporadically, not just on occasions.

My first marriage wasn’t romantic it was a struggle. When I remarried I decided once a month if possible. I would prepare a themed candlelit dinner with cocktails and my husband would provide the flowers.
This year it’s our 25th ok the romance has fizzled out but we still have our candlelit dinners.

Romance passed me by, giving and receiving.

Oh Daddima that brought a tear to my eye. You too Tanith.