I know this might sound like the bare minimum, but it just made me so happy.
Last week, my husband took me to the movies to see Downton Abbey (it was phenomenal). I had no one else to go with. He doesn’t like the show at all. However, he knew how important it was to me. He took me out and sat through the whole thing with me. He also told me it was better than the first one. He even let me cry into his shoulder at the end and fully talk about the movie to my heart’s content. Wiping my tears on his shirt as I explained my utter happiness and satisfaction with the evening. He was 1 of 4 men in the theatre full of old ladies. I will never forget watching my favorite franchise with my favorite person.
After the movie, I talked to an older woman who told me that her husband was reluctant to come to the movie with her and was not positive about coming. It made me appreciate my husband even more.
Anyway, to make it up to him for powering through I’m taking him to a metal concert next week. I hate metal, but I want to see smile on his face as he enjoys himself just like he did with me.
I love being married to this gentle, caring man. I love that he just enjoys my company no matter the activity. I feel so seen, heard, loved!
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What franchise?
Oh heck I didn’t know there was a movie. I’ve never watched the show but my wife likes it. I think it’s a great date night idea. Thanks OP!
I called it DowntoWn Abby for the longest time. I just thought the “w” was silent or some weird and proper queen’s English pronunciation.
Anyway – I’m a husband and I absolutely LOVE this show. I wish they’d bring it back. I had forgotten the 2nd movie was coming out.
My upcoming surprise date night just got really juicy! My wife loves the show too of course.
Yes!! My husband bought us tickets to the Bridgerton Experience in our city to surprise me. When I asked him why he said “well I know you watch the show and that you like making costumes so this seemed like a fun thing for you.”
He had no idea what the show is, but we ended up having a great time. Meant so much that he was 100% invested even though it’s not his “thing.”
We saw Downton last weekend too! I saw a lot of couples there who were older than us – 50s on up – and some who were on their 30s. Everyone seemed so happy. Lots of heads on shoulders, holding hands, sharing popcorn. I had the same thought.
Who knows of course, maybe everyone there was equally a fan. My husband loves Downton (in fact, one of our favorite things to do is find a way to shoe-horn Sir Richard’s dig “there he is, the man who can smile and smile and still be a villain” into the conversation). But it’s just so wonderful to know that your spouse is into something and to be their +1.
Neither of us watch the show, but we saw a trailer for the new movie at The Lost City and my husband was like “that looks pretty good actually” after the trailer. Glad you enjoyed it!
This is so funny. I’d watched most of the series before the hubs and I started dating, but had never finished the last season. Well the 1st movie was coming out so I decided to finish the last season. My hubs would walk in and out while I was watching; sometimes he’d stop and ask questions about it. I kept telling him to just watch it if he wanted to know, but he kept telling me it was nerd sh*t (in a funny, loving way). Well he ended up bingeing all the seasons in time for the first movie and now we are excited to plan to see this second movie!
Sometimes I wonder if my husband cares more about my hobbies than I do, lol.
I used to make harnesses for bearded dragons. And a decade ago business was booming. I wasn’t making a lot of money, but I had so many orders it was hard to keep up with them. I eventually started working full time again and couldn’t devote the time to the business and had to shut it down.
Since then a *lot* of people have been making and selling their own harnesses, so trying to get back in to it has been hard due to all the competition. Plus, mine are a lot more complicated and take longer to individually make than most of what I see on the market. So it just doesn’t seem fair to me to price myself lower than some of those already marked up harnesses that look like they take a lot less time to make.
But my husband sees how excited I get when someone does make a purchase and I’m shipping it off, so he wants to buy me a cricut to streamline the process. But, like, he wants to get the biggest and most expensive one there is so I can use it for other things. Do I want it? Yeah! But I can’t justify getting it if I am not actually selling enough things to make it worth the cost.
On one hand, it’s pricey and it doesn’t feel right buying it if it doesn’t work out. On the other hand… I *could* potentially get myself back into the game *and* use it to sell other items if I devote the time. And if I want to I know he’ll buy it for me in a heartbeat.
My baby daddy is pretty shitty in most ways, but, I can say that he has always 100% supported any stupid thing I’ve ever decided I wanted to do.
My husband is great about this. I recently got into painting and I’m not very good yet, but he always wants to see everything I do and even set one of my pieces as his phone background. It’s so great to be able to share something you’re excited about with the person you love the most.
I feel this so much. I drag my husband to country music concerts bc I have no one else to go with.
He hates country music.
My husband knows I love romance novels and will listen to me tell him entire plots and let me rant and rave about them. He always asks questions and seems very engaged when we talk about them. He also suggested we listen to a romance audiobook on our way to a weekend getaway which was actually good thinking on his part because I was ready to ravish him as soon as we got there.
It’s honestly one of my favorite parts about our marriage. He makes me feel so happy and cared about. And I always do the same to him when he talks about his interests.
This is the kind of stuff strong marriages are made of.
I never wanted children. My wife did so now we have 3. Raising children is all we’ve been doing for the last 10 years!
I have ADHD so I end up with a lot of different hobbies, but my fiancé has been my biggest support no matter what I pick up. I picked up streaming and he got me a lot of components for that, I picked up painting and he would buy a bunch of canvas’ for me, as of right now I’m onto embroidery and he’s looking at all the different threads and just seems so intrigued as well as he surprised me with the cutest little kitty needle minders. He’s my biggest fan and he shows me that every single day