My sweet, sweet boyfriend of almost two years is truly the light of my life. He struggles with big gestures, so instead, he focuses on the little things in our everyday lives to show how much he loves me—and I couldn’t be more grateful. He’s very big on eating three proper meals a day and staying healthy. Me? Not so much. I’ll forget to eat, and when I do, I just focus on getting something—anything—in my stomach.

He’s going away for five days for a work trip, and this man spent a good part of yesterday making meals for me for all five days. He packed them in containers, arranged them neatly in the fridge, left explicit instructions on what to eat and when, and even stocked up our snack cabinet in case I didn’t feel like eating what he’d made. As if I’d touch anything else.

This is just one example—there are so many things he does, quietly and without ever taking credit. I don’t know what I did to deserve him, but I was lucky enough to meet him in this lifetime, and I plan to spend the rest of it with him.

I always struggled with body image issues since I was young, went through anorexia and bulimia and honestly I showed my (M33) boyfriend my old picture just talking about how much my skin as improved comparing it to now.. his response was “I would still love you in every form.”

I was shocked by his response. It made me cry cause if 22 year old me knew by 29 I would be in the most loving relationship of my life, none of my mistakes would have happened. 😭😭

Protecting this dude with my life 😭❤️