What's a small, silly thing you and your partner like to do?
Using my husband and me for an example, when one of us is going to the grocery store, the other person often adds something like “Love!” and “More love!” to the grocery shopping list.
When my ex and i would watch Star Trek Enterprise, I would start screaming like Homer Simpson having night terrors whenever the theme song would start.
He’d be laughing so hard, he could barely get to the remote to skip the intro, all the while I was fake screaming basically in his face.
Like when we’re skating (we’re both bad at it) I call it a danger kiss. Or when we’re eating hotdogs and one of us is still chewing I’ll call it ‘hot dog kiss’. Their kid hated when we kissed until I started doing this and now she thinks it’s adorable. Which is great because I’m trying to show her what a happy, healthy, and loving relationship should look like since she hasn’t had good examples in the past. Plus my partner thinks it’s adorable too and giggles when I do it.
We also intentionally mispronounce words. Hot dog is ‘hot dong’. Hamburger and ‘hahmberder’. Shit like that.
We talk for our dog. We don’t have children, but our dog has full on conversations with us but it’s just my wife and I making his “voice.” It always goes along with the context and it seems to be what he would be saying. Our old dog and our current dog even have their own distinct intonation/dialect when saying things.
It’s to the point that sometimes we look at each other and go “huh, it’s weird when you think about the fact that he’s never actually really spoken before….”
When snuggling, we realized that an affectionate nuzzle to someone’s ear can make a satisfying “fwip” sound if you bend their ear back a little and let it release.
It always makes us smile and chuckle a bit. I’ve seen wolves and african wild dogs doing similar things in videos, so I know we aren’t the only ones doing it :)
When we were dating, my wife and I would poke our fingers in each other’s mouths when the other person started yawning. It was funny, but we got tired of it really fast and made a pact not to do it anymore.
We’ve been together for 8 years and we still nervously side-eye each other when we yawn. If we’re feeling mischievous, we will flinch towards the one yawning to scare them.
If we’re in the middle of sexy time and he asks me to pause for a moment because he’s worried he’s gonna finish too soon, I ask him ridiculous questions about Lord of the Rings.
“Why didn’t they just fly to Mordor on the eagles?”
We've spent a decent amount of our relationship (about 18 years, 14 married) working different shifts and a about a total of 2 years long distance, so we have a lot of autocorrect codes.
I'm not sleepy, I'm sleppy. Love=Luv=Lub=Wubbles so 'I Wubbles You" scans. Etc.
And because we've used Google chat for most of that (I know, don't judge us) we've just accepted the prediction bot as part of the convo, but only when it gets it really wrong. "I just made a mistake at work." "Google says, 'great job', what a sarcastic dick."
If I get up for a job earlier than her, I’ll write a small note and hide it somewhere. It’ll just say something like how pleased to see me the neighbour’s goose was, or how big a shit the dog had in the morning
We talk to each other in accents. Sometimes it’s a southern drawl, sometimes it’s high Bri’ish. Sometimes it’s urban street slang. We also do silly walks in public.
I think other people who are more touchy would not appreciate ours but when one of us goes away and we are greeting each other, instead of hugging or kissing like normal humans we thumbs up.
My partner’s a little awkward and neither of us like public displays of affection, so he just thumbsed up me once when I was going in for a hug and I still think it’s the funniest thing.
We talk to each other like Giwaffe & Cwow (youtu.be/8_Dm5xkHzio). Sometimes we’ll quote things from the skit, but a lot of times we’ll just say normal stuff in that voice to be cute.
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