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<p>The most important thing in a relationship is feeling understood. It&#39;s rare to find someone who truly <em>gets </em>you, who can anticipate your needs&mdash;from words of affirmation to chicken nuggets. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/mtlj4h/whats_one_thing_your_partner_has_said_or_done/">Reddit</a> thread asked women, &quot;What&rsquo;s one thing your partner has said or done that made you think, &#39;damn, this person really gets me&#39;?&quot; I know the internet is full of hyperboles, but I&#39;m not hyperbolizing when I say that it will help you believe in true love.</p><h2>1. Happy Surgeryaversary!</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a tumour removed. We nicknamed the tumour Bob. On the year anniversary of the op, he sent me a card from Bob, asking me to take him back, and filling me in on what he&#39;d got up to in the year since I&#39;d &quot;cut him out of my life&quot;. It was hilarious.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/not_so_lovely_1/">not_so_lovely_1</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2. Your favorite knows your favorites.</h2><blockquote> <p>My partner and I were cooking and I asked for a utensil to stir my pasta and they passed me a utensil and said &ldquo;I know this one is your favorite.&rdquo; And it was just crazy to me because I&rsquo;ve never mentioned it or even realized it but damn that utensil IS my favorite. It just impresses me and amuses me that my SO notices the littlest things about me that even I didn&rsquo;t know.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/flora2117/">flora2117</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. He&#39;s a keeper.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had an anxiety attack in front of him after a year of dating, he&rsquo;d never seen it before. He jumped into action, got me exactly what I needed and sat by my side while I rode it out. It was a moment that was horrible for me, but it was more bearable because he was right there for me when I needed the support.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thepalebeast91/">thepalebeast91</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4. Resourcefulness is romantic.</h2><blockquote> <p>I have a bit of a reputation for taking in injured wildlife. Also 3 of my pets were unwanted by their owners so I took them in. I got given a tiny baby bird a month or so ago. My boyfriend was on his way over and phoned to see if I needed anything. I said I had been given this bird. He asked how old and what kind. It was a matter of hours old, still had a piece of eggshell stuck on its belly. He was an hour late to dinner and turned up with bird milk, chick crumb and puppy biscuits! He googled what to feed them and drove to 4 veterinary surgeries before he found the milk. I had everything but the milk already but he didn&#39;t need to know that bit! -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MamaBear8414/">MamaBear8414</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. He&#39;s the sh*t.</h2><blockquote> <p>He makes poop jokes with me. After being told no one would understand how I feel about myself because of my bowel disease, I&#39;m so glad my boyfriend proves that person (my ex) wrong! -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jel95/">jel95</a></p> </blockquote><h2>6. He anticipates your needs.</h2><blockquote> <p>When he buys me Taco Bell when I&rsquo;m drunk. I fall in love with him all over again every time.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CrazyCabinet577/">CrazyCabinet577</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7. You had me at &quot;cat video.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>After a hellish day of child rearing and domestic/emotional laboring, I said to my husband &ldquo;I&rsquo;m taking a bath. Bedtime is on you. Leave me alone. Deuces.&rdquo; He knocked on the door after he put the kids to bed, popped his head in, and said &ldquo;I know you wanted to be left alone, but there&rsquo;s a cat video on the internet I think you want to see. Also, The Babysitters Club dropped on Netflix, so I brought you your laptop and more wine.&rdquo;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fourfrenchfries/">fourfrenchfries</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. Better than Maps.</h2><blockquote> <p>Arrived at the restaurant first, sent me a text message saying exactly how to get to the table.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ReaderofHarlaw/">ReaderofHarlaw</a></p> </blockquote><h2>9. Very <em>Eternal Sunshine.</em></h2><blockquote> <p>We were in New Jersey in the middle of winter and he surprised me by driving us to the beach at the Jersey Shore. It was freezing cold, no one was there, the wind was crazy and it was just kind of desolate and eerie.</p> <p>I am pretty anti social and I love being alone and hate crowds of people. I also love cold weather. I felt like he took all of those things he knew about me and put together the little day trip with all of it in mind. I loved it.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GreenMountain85/">GreenMountain85</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10. Shoutout to everyone with their own personal Standard Time.</h2><blockquote> <p>Arrived on time for once and wondered why dinner wasn&rsquo;t ready. Boyfriend says, &ldquo;I never give you the actual time. I always say earlier, that way you&rsquo;ll be on time.&quot;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/88scarlet88/">88scarlet88</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. Little things make for big things.</h2><blockquote> <p>He did a scavenger hunt for Christmas around the house for tiny things. I love tiny things so those alone would&#39;ve been perfect but my dad used to do scavenger hunts for me when I was little. My dad passed away in July. I started bawling as I was doing it and couldn&#39;t pick sh*t up because I was shaking so much. and he had forgotten that it was my dad that had done them for me. He just stored that sh*t away because he knew I loved them and did it unknowingly when I needed it most, when I was celebrating my first Christmas without my dad or any of my other family. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nanananamokey/">nanananamokey</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12. Doggy duets.</h2><blockquote> <p>Sometimes I&#39;m completely overwhelmed by how cute my dog is, so i&#39;ll burst into song, usually taking a well known song and riff with it, substituting the lyrics. For example, singing to the tune of ABC by The Jackson Five &quot;Iggy boy, so cute with his toy&quot; and my fiance will join me, riffing off the same song, and we&#39;ll just riff songs together celebrating how adorable our dog is. I love them both so much.</p> <p>He also bought me our dog as an engagement gift instead of a ring, which is what I always wanted. :)-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/theawkwardyeto/">theawkwardyeto</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. All you need is hugs.</h2><blockquote> <p>Everytime I cry because of something stupid, he doesn&#39;t question it or say anything mean. He just hugs me and tries to talk about it.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GemmaKujo/">GemmaKujo</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14. When they know more about you than you do...</h2><blockquote> <p>Just last weekend, he told our 3 year old that he could have some of the starburst jelly beans we were eating and he added, &quot;Especially the black (purple) ones, they&#39;re mom&#39;s least favorite.&quot;<br /> The thing is, I hadn&#39;t even thought about them like that, but I do always eat all of the other colors first. It just made me laugh. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bullsgirlusf/">Bullsgirlusf</a></p> </blockquote><h2>15. Puts the &quot;awwww&quot; in &quot;guffaw.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m very goofy, and none of my previous partners have ever loved that about me. My current partner will literally guffaw when I do something silly and I can be completely myself around him. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lilscrappyks/">lilscrappyks</a></p> </blockquote><h2>16. He, too, is a snack.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;d been looking for my favorite snack in CVS and they stopped stocking it for weeks. Saturday he saw there was 1 left hidden in a random shelf and handed it to me as I was ringing our purchase up at the self-checkout. Bless him and his eagle eye and his giant heart.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/loaf1216/">loaf1216</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. Mind meld.</h2><blockquote> <p>I picked him up from the airport today and we both looked at each other and said &ldquo;Popeyes.&rdquo; without even saying we were both starving.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ramen_lovr/">ramen_lovr</a></p> </blockquote><h2>18. Jinx!</h2><blockquote> <p>We watched a couple zoom by on a scooter. At the exact same time, we turned to each other and said &ldquo;That could be us, babe.&rdquo;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/anon89899898/">anon89899898</a></p> </blockquote><h2>19. A definite upgrade.</h2><blockquote> <p>My ex husband used to employ the silent treatment against me (which I realize now was emotional abuse) and I told my partner about it in the beginning of our relationship. I get pretty bad anxiety if I&#39;ve texted him a few times and don&#39;t get a response, I know it&#39;s &quot;stupid&quot; and things are great with us, but I&#39;ll start to spiral. He&#39;ll just send me a simple &quot;We&#39;re real busy at work but I see your texts and I&#39;ll respond when I get time&quot;.</p> <p>It&#39;s so simple, and only takes a few seconds of his time, but it means the world to me to know I don&#39;t have to constantly remind him and he&#39;s thinking about me!-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kimobim/">kimobim</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 women share things their partners did that made them think 'this person gets me.'

The most important thing in a relationship is feeling understood. It&#39;s rare to find someone who truly gets you, who can anticipate your needs&mdash;from words of affirmation to chicken nuggets. A Reddit thread asked women, &quot;What&rsquo;s one thing your partner has said or done that made you think, &#39;damn, this person really gets me&#39;?&quot; I know the internet is full of hyperboles, but I&#39;m not hyperbolizing when I say that it will help you believe in true love.1. Happy Surgeryaversary! I had a tumour removed. We nicknamed the tumour Bob. On the year anniversary of the op, he sent me a card from Bob, asking me to take him back, and filling me in on what he&#39;d got up to in the year since I&#39;d &quot;cut him out of my life&quot;. It was hilarious.-not_so_lovely_1 2. Your favorite knows your favorites. My partner and I were cooking and I asked for a utensil to stir my pasta and they passed me a utensil and said &ldquo;I know this one is your favorite.&rdquo; And it was just crazy to me because I&rsquo;ve never mentioned it or even realized it but damn that utensil IS my favorite. It just impresses me and amuses me that my SO notices the littlest things about me that even I didn&rsquo;t know.-flora2117 3. He&#39;s a keeper. I had an anxiety attack in front of him after a year of dating, he&rsquo;d never seen it before. He jumped into action, got me exactly what I needed and sat by my side while I rode it out. It was a moment that was horrible for me, but it was more bearable because he was right there for me when I needed the support.-thepalebeast91 4. Resourcefulness is romantic. I have a bit of a reputation for taking in injured wildlife. Also 3 of my pets were unwanted by their owners so I took them in. I got given a tiny baby bird a month or so ago. My boyfriend was on his way over and phoned to see if I needed anything. I said I had been given this bird. He asked how old and what kind. It was a matter of hours old, still had a piece of eggshell stuck on its belly. He was an hour late to dinner and turned up with bird milk, chick crumb and puppy biscuits! He googled what to feed them and drove to 4 veterinary surgeries before he found the milk. I had everything but the milk already but he didn&#39;t need to know that bit! -MamaBear8414 5. He&#39;s the sh*t. He makes poop jokes with me. After being told no one would understand how I feel about myself because of my bowel disease, I&#39;m so glad my boyfriend proves that person (my ex) wrong! -jel95 6. He anticipates your needs. When he buys me Taco Bell when I&rsquo;m drunk. I fall in love with him all over again every time.-CrazyCabinet577 7. You had me at &quot;cat video.&quot; After a hellish day of child rearing and domestic/emotional laboring, I said to my husband &ldquo;I&rsquo;m taking a bath. Bedtime is on you. Leave me alone. Deuces.&rdquo; He knocked on the door after he put the kids to bed, popped his head in, and said &ldquo;I know you wanted to be left alone, but there&rsquo;s a cat video on the internet I think you want to see. Also, The Babysitters Club dropped on Netflix, so I brought you your laptop and more wine.&rdquo;-fourfrenchfries 8. Better than Maps. Arrived at the restaurant first, sent me a text message saying exactly how to get to the table.-ReaderofHarlaw 9. Very Eternal Sunshine. We were in New Jersey in the middle of winter and he surprised me by driving us to the beach at the Jersey Shore. It was freezing cold, no one was there, the wind was crazy and it was just kind of desolate and eerie. I am pretty anti social and I love being alone and hate crowds of people. I also love cold weather. I felt like he took all of those things he knew about me and put together the little day trip with all of it in mind. I loved it.-GreenMountain85 10. Shoutout to everyone with their own personal Standard Time. Arrived on time for once and wondered why dinner wasn&rsquo;t ready. Boyfriend says, &ldquo;I never give you the actual time. I always say earlier, that way you&rsquo;ll be on time.&quot;-88scarlet88 11. Little things make for big things. He did a scavenger hunt for Christmas around the house for tiny things. I love tiny things so those alone would&#39;ve been perfect but my dad used to do scavenger hunts for me when I was little. My dad passed away in July. I started bawling as I was doing it and couldn&#39;t pick sh*t up because I was shaking so much. and he had forgotten that it was my dad that had done them for me. He just stored that sh*t away because he knew I loved them and did it unknowingly when I needed it most, when I was celebrating my first Christmas without my dad or any of my other family. -nanananamokey 12. Doggy duets. Sometimes I&#39;m completely overwhelmed by how cute my dog is, so i&#39;ll burst into song, usually taking a well known song and riff with it, substituting the lyrics. For example, singing to the tune of ABC by The Jackson Five &quot;Iggy boy, so cute with his toy&quot; and my fiance will join me, riffing off the same song, and we&#39;ll just riff songs together celebrating how adorable our dog is. I love them both so much. He also bought me our dog as an engagement gift instead of a ring, which is what I always wanted. :)-theawkwardyeto 13. All you need is hugs. Everytime I cry because of something stupid, he doesn&#39;t question it or say anything mean. He just hugs me and tries to talk about it.-GemmaKujo 14. When they know more about you than you do... Just last weekend, he told our 3 year old that he could have some of the starburst jelly beans we were eating and he added, &quot;Especially the black (purple) ones, they&#39;re mom&#39;s least favorite.&quot; The thing is, I hadn&#39;t even thought about them like that, but I do always eat all of the other colors first. It just made me laugh. -Bullsgirlusf 15. Puts the &quot;awwww&quot; in &quot;guffaw.&quot; I&#39;m very goofy, and none of my previous partners have ever loved that about me. My current partner will literally guffaw when I do something silly and I can be completely myself around him. -lilscrappyks 16. He, too, is a snack. I&rsquo;d been looking for my favorite snack in CVS and they stopped stocking it for weeks. Saturday he saw there was 1 left hidden in a random shelf and handed it to me as I was ringing our purchase up at the self-checkout. Bless him and his eagle eye and his giant heart.-loaf1216 17. Mind meld. I picked him up from the airport today and we both looked at each other and said &ldquo;Popeyes.&rdquo; without even saying we were both starving.-ramen_lovr 18. Jinx! We watched a couple zoom by on a scooter. At the exact same time, we turned to each other and said &ldquo;That could be us, babe.&rdquo;-anon89899898 19. A definite upgrade. My ex husband used to employ the silent treatment against me (which I realize now was emotional abuse) and I told my partner about it in the beginning of our relationship. I get pretty bad anxiety if I&#39;ve texted him a few times and don&#39;t get a response, I know it&#39;s &quot;stupid&quot; and things are great with us, but I&#39;ll start to spiral. He&#39;ll just send me a simple &quot;We&#39;re real busy at work but I see your texts and I&#39;ll respond when I get time&quot;. It&#39;s so simple, and only takes a few seconds of his time, but it means the world to me to know I don&#39;t have to constantly remind him and he&#39;s thinking about me!-kimobim 

The most important thing in a relationship is feeling understood. It&#39;s rare to find someone who truly gets you, who can anticipate your needs&mdash;from words of affirmation to chicken nuggets. A Reddit thread asked women,...