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<p>Adorable, wholesome love stories can be found in the most unlikely places. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/equ4vm/whats_the_weirdest_non_sexual_thing_you_and_your/?sort=top">thread on Reddit</a> asking people to dish on the secret routines they have with their partners turned into a celebration of the cute, couple-y things that can inspire your next romantic gesture.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.35em; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">1. Eye love this, </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hermiomew/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.35em; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">hermiomew</a><span style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.35em; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">.</span></p><blockquote> <p>Whenever he wears his eye drops it would look as though he&rsquo;d been tearing up, and so I would always ask him why he&rsquo;s crying and he&rsquo;d dramatically reply with &ldquo;because I love you so much&rdquo; it sounds cringe but I would always feel so happy afterwards.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mayo_jr/">mayo_jr</a> is Joaquin Phoenix in <em>Joker.</em></h2><blockquote> <p>Sometimes when we both start laughing, one of us will open their mouth as wide as possible, and then the other will follow suit. So we&rsquo;re basically just sitting there with our mouths as big as they&rsquo;ll go, yelling &quot;HA HA HA HA.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>3. Everything is Awesome at <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thekingadrock123/">thekingadrock123</a>&#39;s place.</h2><blockquote> <p>My husband likes to hide Lego mini figs in our home decor to see how long it takes for me to notice. Most recently, I was gifted an old dollhouse that my grandmother and I made as a child. The other day I just happened to walk by it, and out of the corner of my eye, I see a Stormshadow GI Joe sitting in a rocking chair in the dollhouse. Apparently he&#39;s leveling up and I had no idea.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wayfinder111/">wayfinder111</a> got a taste of their own medicine.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to stick my finger in his mouth when he was yawning. Then he did it to me once and made me realize I hated it and stopped altogether.</p> </blockquote><hr /><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BigPapaFish17/">BigPapaFish17</a></h2><blockquote> <p>After we hug and kiss goodbye we high five.</p> <p>[I don&#39;t know] why or when it started. But it&rsquo;s just &quot;our thing&quot;</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/IainSwims/">IainSwims</a>&#39;s story is even more romantic than &quot;I love you&quot;/&quot;I know.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>My wife and I met when we were 12. We played tag at church one time and I was it when the game was finished. I went up to her a few days later (I was wearing a Lego<em> Star Wars</em> shirt and she was in a lime green tank top which becomes important later) I just yell at her that I was still it and start chasing her down the church hallways ending with a flying tackle in to a pile of snow outside. So after that for a while every day we played tag whenever we saw each other. As we grew up the rules evolved a bit so who is &ldquo;it&rdquo; can only be transferred once per day and to signal that your &ldquo;it&rdquo; I need to be wearing a star wars tee shirt and she wears a lime green tank top. We still play all the time I&rsquo;m currently separated from her by the military but when I go back home I&rsquo;m going to wear a<em> Star Wars</em> tee shirt and chase her through the airport like a idiot.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>7. Can I get a woop woop, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EtherGorilla/">EtherGorilla</a>?</h2><blockquote> <p>We have a noise that we make when moving things around the house. It&#39;s a low pitched &quot;woooooooooop&quot; that started out as a joke and now we do it subconsciously. Taking in groceries? &quot;Woooooooooop!&quot; Moving food from the pan to the plate? &quot;Wooooooooooop!&quot; At this point it&#39;s become a problem but we joke that we don&#39;t want to call an ambulance because it might trigger us.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/yoshioshilol/">yoshioshilol</a> still says &quot;Damn Daniel.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Years ago there was a viral video of a kid barely awake saying &ldquo;murnin&rsquo;&rdquo; instead of good morning, and ever since, that&rsquo;s how my husband and I greet each other every morning.</p> </blockquote><hr /><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Louise_Feist/">Louise_Feist</a> is not afraid to fight. </h2><blockquote> <p>My partner and I have this weird joke where if one of us jokingly challenges the other to a fight we respond with &quot;take your pants off&quot;. It is a variation of taking your shirt off to fight.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SissiWasabi/">SissiWasabi</a> leaves a tip.</h2><blockquote> <p>We shower together and he washes my hair. After we&lsquo;re done, I firmly shake his c**k and say &bdquo;nice doing business with you, sir.&quot;</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>11. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shootemupy2k/">shootemupy2k</a> is the most hakachaing hakacha. </h2><blockquote> <p>For some reason, I like to make up nonsense words at random to make my wife giggle. One of the earliest ones was &ldquo;hakacha&rdquo;. She reacted to this one particularly strongly for some reason.</p> <p>So for the past decade, I will bust it out randomly. I&rsquo;ll get close in bed like we&rsquo;re going to cuddle and softly whisper &ldquo;hakacha&rdquo; in her ear. Or I&rsquo;ll look deep inter her eyes and say &ldquo;hey............hakacha&rdquo;. This usually results in a prolonged period of laughter for the both of us.</p> <p>I even forgot about it for awhile after a particularly stressful period in our lives. She comes up to me one day and says &ldquo;hey, you haven&rsquo;t hakacha&rsquo;d me for a while&rdquo; and gave me the pouty lip.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>12. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JayNovae/">JayNovae</a> and their partner are adorable dolphins.</h2><blockquote> <p>We make these stupid high pitch noises as if to &quot;Marco ... Polo&quot; eachother. It&#39;s become this sign of affection to say &quot;are you okay?&quot; And if he does it back, then were both okay. If it&#39;s a lower pitch, we know something&#39;s up.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>13. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/brighton-man56/">brighton-man56</a> is a great choreographer.</h2><blockquote> <p>Every time the timer goes off on her iPhone we do this dance, no matter where we are in the flat we&rsquo;ll find each other and do the dance. Honestly it&rsquo;s become like muscle memory now, this one time it went off at work without her around and I subconsciously started dancing. For those who are wondering the timer tune we have set is &lsquo;by the seaside&rsquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>14. Meow, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lolathe/">lolathe</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>I want a cat but my boyfriend doesn&#39;t, so now he pretends his hand is a cat as a substitute.</p> <p>His name is hand cat and has a Texas accent (we&#39;re English)</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>15. If only The Beatles had a song about feet holding, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/voltagescribe45/">voltagescribe45</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>Sometimes when brushing our teeth, we rest one foot on top of the other&#39;s foot. Like we&#39;re holding feet.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>16. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jakeSimpai/">jakeSimpai</a> is nuts for Squirrel.</h2><blockquote> <p>She calls me toad, and I call her squirrel. Originally she called me a &ldquo;horny toad&rdquo; so I called her a squirrel because she was always after my nuts. Now it&rsquo;s just gone beyond the original meanings and is just our names for each other.</p> </blockquote><hr /><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/yas9in/">yas9in</a> gives next-level raspberries.</h2><blockquote> <p>Kiss each other on the cheeks trying to deliberately make a loud noise. We compete over whose is louder.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people share the non-sexual thing they do with their partner that no one else knows about.

Adorable, wholesome love stories can be found in the most unlikely places. A thread on Reddit asking people to dish on the secret routines they have with their partners turned into a celebration of the cute, couple-y things that can inspire your next romantic gesture.1. Eye love this, hermiomew. Whenever he wears his eye drops it would look as though he&rsquo;d been tearing up, and so I would always ask him why he&rsquo;s crying and he&rsquo;d dramatically reply with &ldquo;because I love you so much&rdquo; it sounds cringe but I would always feel so happy afterwards. 2. mayo_jr is Joaquin Phoenix in Joker. Sometimes when we both start laughing, one of us will open their mouth as wide as possible, and then the other will follow suit. So we&rsquo;re basically just sitting there with our mouths as big as they&rsquo;ll go, yelling &quot;HA HA HA HA.&quot; 3. Everything is Awesome at thekingadrock123&#39;s place. My husband likes to hide Lego mini figs in our home decor to see how long it takes for me to notice. Most recently, I was gifted an old dollhouse that my grandmother and I made as a child. The other day I just happened to walk by it, and out of the corner of my eye, I see a Stormshadow GI Joe sitting in a rocking chair in the dollhouse. Apparently he&#39;s leveling up and I had no idea. 4. wayfinder111 got a taste of their own medicine. I used to stick my finger in his mouth when he was yawning. Then he did it to me once and made me realize I hated it and stopped altogether. 5. BigPapaFish17 After we hug and kiss goodbye we high five. [I don&#39;t know] why or when it started. But it&rsquo;s just &quot;our thing&quot; 6. IainSwims&#39;s story is even more romantic than &quot;I love you&quot;/&quot;I know.&quot; My wife and I met when we were 12. We played tag at church one time and I was it when the game was finished. I went up to her a few days later (I was wearing a Lego Star Wars shirt and she was in a lime green tank top which becomes important later) I just yell at her that I was still it and start chasing her down the church hallways ending with a flying tackle in to a pile of snow outside. So after that for a while every day we played tag whenever we saw each other. As we grew up the rules evolved a bit so who is &ldquo;it&rdquo; can only be transferred once per day and to signal that your &ldquo;it&rdquo; I need to be wearing a star wars tee shirt and she wears a lime green tank top. We still play all the time I&rsquo;m currently separated from her by the military but when I go back home I&rsquo;m going to wear a Star Wars tee shirt and chase her through the airport like a idiot. 7. Can I get a woop woop, EtherGorilla? We have a noise that we make when moving things around the house. It&#39;s a low pitched &quot;woooooooooop&quot; that started out as a joke and now we do it subconsciously. Taking in groceries? &quot;Woooooooooop!&quot; Moving food from the pan to the plate? &quot;Wooooooooooop!&quot; At this point it&#39;s become a problem but we joke that we don&#39;t want to call an ambulance because it might trigger us. 8. yoshioshilol still says &quot;Damn Daniel.&quot; Years ago there was a viral video of a kid barely awake saying &ldquo;murnin&rsquo;&rdquo; instead of good morning, and ever since, that&rsquo;s how my husband and I greet each other every morning. 9. Louise_Feist is not afraid to fight.  My partner and I have this weird joke where if one of us jokingly challenges the other to a fight we respond with &quot;take your pants off&quot;. It is a variation of taking your shirt off to fight. 10. SissiWasabi leaves a tip. We shower together and he washes my hair. After we&lsquo;re done, I firmly shake his c**k and say &bdquo;nice doing business with you, sir.&quot; 11. shootemupy2k is the most hakachaing hakacha.  For some reason, I like to make up nonsense words at random to make my wife giggle. One of the earliest ones was &ldquo;hakacha&rdquo;. She reacted to this one particularly strongly for some reason. So for the past decade, I will bust it out randomly. I&rsquo;ll get close in bed like we&rsquo;re going to cuddle and softly whisper &ldquo;hakacha&rdquo; in her ear. Or I&rsquo;ll look deep inter her eyes and say &ldquo;hey............hakacha&rdquo;. This usually results in a prolonged period of laughter for the both of us. I even forgot about it for awhile after a particularly stressful period in our lives. She comes up to me one day and says &ldquo;hey, you haven&rsquo;t hakacha&rsquo;d me for a while&rdquo; and gave me the pouty lip. 12. JayNovae and their partner are adorable dolphins. We make these stupid high pitch noises as if to &quot;Marco ... Polo&quot; eachother. It&#39;s become this sign of affection to say &quot;are you okay?&quot; And if he does it back, then were both okay. If it&#39;s a lower pitch, we know something&#39;s up. 13. brighton-man56 is a great choreographer. Every time the timer goes off on her iPhone we do this dance, no matter where we are in the flat we&rsquo;ll find each other and do the dance. Honestly it&rsquo;s become like muscle memory now, this one time it went off at work without her around and I subconsciously started dancing. For those who are wondering the timer tune we have set is &lsquo;by the seaside&rsquo; 14. Meow, lolathe. I want a cat but my boyfriend doesn&#39;t, so now he pretends his hand is a cat as a substitute. His name is hand cat and has a Texas accent (we&#39;re English) 15. If only The Beatles had a song about feet holding, voltagescribe45. Sometimes when brushing our teeth, we rest one foot on top of the other&#39;s foot. Like we&#39;re holding feet. 16. jakeSimpai is nuts for Squirrel. She calls me toad, and I call her squirrel. Originally she called me a &ldquo;horny toad&rdquo; so I called her a squirrel because she was always after my nuts. Now it&rsquo;s just gone beyond the original meanings and is just our names for each other. 17. yas9in gives next-level raspberries. Kiss each other on the cheeks trying to deliberately make a loud noise. We compete over whose is louder. 

Adorable, wholesome love stories can be found in the most unlikely places. A thread on Reddit asking people to dish on the secret routines they have with their partners turned into a celebration of the cute, couple-y things that can...