list 100 more things i love about my fiance

80. He doesn’t mind that we root for different sports teams.

81. He worries about me without being smothering.

82. He can tell how I’m feeling just by looking at me.

83. We’ve only spent one night apart since we moved in together (which was in Feb. ‘07) and he barely slept because I wasn’t there.

84. We love introducing each other to music, writers and food that we love.

85. He’s like me in that he’ll try anything once.

86. Our friends tell us that we’re one of the happiest, well-matched couples they know.

87. He’s helped so! much! with the wedding plans.

88. He send me links to articles and videos he knows I’ll enjoy to break up the monotony of the work day.

89. He surprises me with little gifts just to make me smile and let me know that he’s always thinking about me.

90. I’m no longer concerned about being attractive when I’m old—I just want to be old with HIM.

91. He talks/brags about me to complete strangers.

92. He knows how to order foods the way I like them.

93. He has helped me embrace foods I used to hate. He even coaxed me into trying mushrooms, which are my most hated enemy of the foodly kingdom.

75. He even manages to look breathtakingly adorable when he has just woken up and is all rumpled.

76. He’s just so easygoing and low-maintenance.

77. He has a thousand different smiles and laughs, and few things are as rewarding as being responsible for eliciting such responses from him.

78. We bring out the best in each other.

79. He has known how to tie a tie for years.

67. He has met some of my extended family and not only talked to them for hours, but also got along so well one would think they were all old friends.

68. He still asks me to marry him and says he’s mine forever.

69. He’s let me shave him.

70. We’re at the point where it’s okay to leave the bathroom door open.

71. We both know we can vent about something (usually work or family related) that’s bothering us and know the other one won’t find it silly, and will actually offer to help or come up with advice.

72. We respect each other as journalists and can offer each other legitimate workplace advice.

73. Even a day at work is almost too long to be apart.

74. He doesn’t mind being the one who usually drives (even if it’s partly because my driving scares him).

52. He encourages me to do the things I love.

53. He happily dances with me in front of our friends, even if we’re not the best at hoofing it.

54. He tells me he’s proud of me.

55. We can sit in absolute silence and know exactly what the other is thinking.

56. We can talk about things that engage us both intellectually and get really excited about it.

57. He takes care of me when I’m not feeling well.

58. He knows when to let me be flighty, just as he knows when to bring me back down to earth.

59. We love almost all of the same foods.

60. He watches out for me just as much as I do for him.

61. He, like me, has no problem being silly in public.

62. We really can’t imagine life without an us.

63. Now that our commutes are much shorter, we spend more time snuggling and talking in bed.

64. He has a sense of adventure that’s almost exactly like mine.

65. He lets me treat him to dinner or a date night and doesn’t get all alpha-male on me.

66. He can spend a solid week with my parents and still get along famously with them.

34. whenever we’re watching movies together, we almost always manage to blurt out “titular line!” simultaneously.

35. he relates to how emotionally attached i get to characters in novels or movies.

36. for the few things we don’t have in common, even if he doesn’t understand why i feel so passionately about something, he understands that it means a lot to me. and doesn’t mock it.

37. when we’re together, it’s like the rest of the world just disappears.

38. we can be bluntly honest with each other if circumstances call for it.

39. i can call his parents mom and dad.

40. he can laugh at himself and doesn’t get all huffy if i josh him about something.

41. he knows that he can poke fun at me and that i’ll laugh along with him.

42. when he gets home before i do, he always greets me so warmly and sounds so happy to see me, even if we only spent a few hours apart.

43. we’ve both mastered the art of convincing the other one to stay home when one of us isn’t going to work.

44. we’ll sit and read political, scientific and all the other articles we find interesting to each other, knowing full well the other one will find them just as fascinating.

45. when one of us finds a new java monster flavour, we buy an extra one to bring home so the other can try it.

46. he does little dances (at my request) for me when he’s undressing.

47. he notices the smallest things about me.

48. our relationship pretty much runs itself at this point, so we can sit back and reap the benefits of being ridiculously, insanely in love.

49. he appreciates that i clean the bathroom, since it’s his least favourite chore.

50. he’ll download albums/movies just because he thinks i’ll like them.

51. every time he says “i think you’d really like (tv show/movie/book/food/etc),” he’s spot-on.

29. we’ve devised our own mating calls. and use them frequently. around our friends. and in public. shamelessly. (i never said we were normal)

30. he loves bragging about me. and i him. :)

31. we’ve both had enough relationship experience to understand how to make one work and what love really looks like.

32. we don’t care that we weren’t each other’s “first time” for a lot of things. but we we each other’s firsts for the big things (for example, we’re the first fiance/es each other has had!).

33. he might not be the first man i’ve loved, kissed or had sex with, but he’s certainly the last for all those and more. :)

21. i’m the first person he calls with good or bad news.

22. wet ‘stache kisses!

23. he tucks me in at night when i’m cold.

24. he worries about me just as much as i do about him.

25. he’s understanding of my strange little superstitions.

26. we both made up our own prayers when we were kids (and still years away from meeting each other), which were almost exactly the same, word for word.

27. his handwriting. it’s so perfectly him.

28. he takes pictures of me when i’m doing something he finds especially cute, and lets me do the same to him.

13. this one should have happened waaaaaay sooner: he’s genuinely and truly a good person with a warm heart.

14. he changes the lyrics to “brown-eyed girl” to be about me.

15. we can sing out loud together in the car.

16. i can trust him with everything.

17. he notices subtle changes in me, like how certain quirks have subsided since we started dating.

18. we have the same pet peeves.

19. he’s introduced to me to classic films and life-changing literature that i just never got around to experiencing.

20. he actually listens to me, tries to solve my problems and is sympathetic when i need it.

1. he actually likes it when i sing (and i can’t carry a tune to save my life)

2. we both make each other feel better about ourselves.

3. he enjoys showering together.

4. when something reminds him of the early days in our relationship, he’ll tell me about it.

5. we begin and end our days with kisses, snuggles and ‘i love you’s.

6. he cleans the kitchen because he knows it’s my least favourite chore.

7. he protects me from evil, vicious things like spiders and unidentifiable insects that clearly want to eat me.

8. he has the greatest laugh ever.

9. we can spend a morning just snuggling and reading in bed.

10. he never takes his frustrations out on me.

11. when i have weekend errands to run (picking up birth control, getting my eyebrows waxed), he comes with just so we can spend more time together.

12. he’ll say things like “that looks like a photo you’d take” and can describe my photographic ‘style’ with an almost frightening accuracy.