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We make dinosaur sounds when we're trying to find each other. Sometimes in public. Works well, would recommend.

We laugh about the faces our cat makes when we scratch under her chin, so sometimes I’ll scratch under my husband’s chin and he’ll make the same exaggerated face she does, or vice versa.

"love you" became "wuvs" became, via autocorrect, "wolves", became the wolf emoji

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.

https://youtu.be/glOjvKlva7w?si=Sta2HscU2Ck9HLj7

This thread is so wholesome ❤️ It made me smille to know how many people are loved and cherished by a significant other.

I wait in line with the regular customers and then at the end of my transaction I use the worst possible pickup lines imaginable, and it always lands a perfect ten.

You look like you come from excellent chewing stock my dear.

Oh? How do you know? A man like you probably works with cattle with those big guns.

How do you like to mooove on over to my place after work?

Oh gosh! Tucks chin. I-I don't know...

We talk about getting things for the cats that they wouldn't actually like, as if they would love them. Or we talk about bringing the cats along on trips they would hate, saying they'd like it.

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?"

"Legolas is neither a Lego nor a lass. Discuss."

Works every time.

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.

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.

• “I’m going in the shower, do you want me to get anything while I’m there?”
• see you later, crocodile
• in a while, alligator

Instead of "love you" she says "bluv blu" so we now use two rhyming words. "Glove zoo" "dove stew"

Sometimes sent as emojis to confuse the other person

We'll play random little "games" while trying to get to sleep, usually without actually saying anything. Thumb wars, call-and-response tapping, spelling things out by touch, and most often, doing that stupid circle game thing while the other one is trying to hold hands.

I'll also sometimes hold my phone up to my dog's ear and he'll say "Moshi moshi, Puppy desu!" Very stupid but it cracks me up every time.

We make grossly exaggerated corny sex jokes when we're horny and want to get down to it.

• wife is preparing hard boil eggs

• Well... talking about hard balls...

And then one thing leads to the other 👍

I work in a hospital. Since Covid, instead of hugging after I got home from work, we started doing "foot cuddles", just touching our feet together before I went to shower. We still do it to this day.

We pull stupid faces at each other in public because when we were dating long distance in our mutual chat group that is how we would flirt and signify something was sent via phone.

I'm a morning person, she's not. When we shower together I'm not allowed to look at her because she's not ready for my cheer. I do it anyway, she slaps me. Been 20 years and it's worth it every time!

Talking whistfully about what crazy thing we can do for a fun adventure together

Strip Poker was her favourite, especially after I dropped the pretense that I had any shot of winning and started strip teasing her

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….”

Folie a deux?

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.

When our kid was younger I heard him say “Dad, I love you” from the car backseat.

I said “I love you too buddy”

Then my kid said “NO Dad, three buses!”

So now I get 🚌🚌🚌 from my wife every so often

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

Misheard "love you lots" as "adidas", and it stuck around. It's like our own little codeword of appreciation

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 :)

We come up with comedy sketches just for fun.

We also like to redub shows we're watching/make up ridiculous scenarios for fun, kinda like our own little MST3k/RiffTrax.

Whenever one of us asks the other if they need anything at the store, they respond with, "a new brain, please."

I name my kisses something stupid.

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.

When it's time for bed, we do crosswords together for 20 minutes or so. I think it also helps wind down in general.

Forgot to comment: We like to do a Robert DeNiro impression in that movie with Ben Stiller whenever we say goodbye: "I'm on to you, fucker" then point both eyes and the index straight forward.

Nose boops.