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Milestones My Boyfriend and I Have Passed Except He Still Hasn’t Said He Loves Me
An incomplete list of moments that may or may not lead to “I love you”
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5 min readApr 2, 2019
- We have met one another’s parents.
- We have taken multiple road trips.
- We know one another’s friends.
- We even share some friends!
- We have friends we made together who know us both equally!
- I spent a major holiday at his mother’s house.
- He was invited to spend a major holiday at my mother’s house.
- He knows that I like whiskey drinks.
- I know that he likes whiskey drinks, too.
- He knows that I need an annoying amount of attention.
- I know that he needs some kind of sweet before bed because that’s what he’s like and if he doesn’t have one he will just keep thinking about it so it’s best to keep chocolate around the apartment.
- We have favorite TV shows to watch together.
- It would be a betrayal to watch our favorite TV shows solo, and so we wait to watch them together.
- He is a sucker for a porter or stout beer with names like Christmas desserts.
- I know that his feet get really cold and so he needs slippers or socks but if you turn the heat on too high he turns into a grumpy old man/troll.
- We have our own sides of the bed.
- One time I wanted to get rid of my gum and he let me spit it out into his hand.
- One time he got hit by a car and subsequently arrested for an unpaid ticket and he had to go to jail about it for a day and I was his one phone call.
- He was fine in jail and I met his mom because I had to tell her that he was fine. That’s how I met his mom.
- Sometimes he walks my dog for me.
- Sometimes my dog likes him more than me.
- He was cuddling my dog and said “I love you.” To my dog.
- He said I could put his phone number on my dog’s collar as a second emergency contact.
- If someone wanted to call someone…
