LAST EDIT Mar 14, 2018. ARCHIVED post-breakup, Feb 12, 2021

• you're braver than i am, and it inspires me to step out of my comfort zone
• you told me you loved me when i was still too afraid
• you cry so openly. you feel so deeply. you open your heart so easily
• you're such a good person, and you listen so carefully to people around you and try to help them
• you are so open to new ideas and even though we debate a lot, you're not nearly as stubborn as i am about being right. you love learning more than you love being right
• no one who holds so much love in his heart should be afraid of being hurt by someone small like me
• you have the most beautiful eyes
• you have the most beautiful soul
• you are willing to help me be a better person
• you are willing to love even the sad parts of me
• you make time for me even when it's hard
• you want to protect me from things that are hard
• you love food adventures
• i feel so safe in your arms
• you give me so much love and care
• you are so fucking good with kids
• when you got really drunk and we were on the phone and you told me you wanted university to go by faster so you could be a parent already
• you are patient
• when you told me i was one of your best friends
• when you told me you missed everything about me, and you couldn't wait to see me again
• you are considerate
• you appreciate bad puns
• that every day with you is better than before and that our relationship gets stronger and keeps growing because we keep working on it
• the way you say hello when I call you on the phone
• i love when you get really serious because you want me to be safe and how you worry about me getting home safe at night and how you don't like me walking alone after dark
• when you watched the end of the office and cried
• the way you love me even when i'm hard to love and even when i'm not fun to be around and even when i'm sad
• that you want to be with me even when i know it's crazy hard for you to text and stay connected to me from far away
• that we started long distance before we'd even been together a month and that you cared about me enough to want it to work
• drunk texts from you
• every. good morning. snap. you. send.
• today when you told me you didn't think i could get any more desirable
• when i said i would try to make it up to see you but not to get too hopeful and you said, "oh my hopes are already way up"
• when you make eggs and bagels for me
• hot sauce
• the way your voice sounds when you're really drunk
• when i get sappy and you're drunk and it makes you so happy
• tickling you
• that one time we were wrestling and you were winning and asked me if i wanted you to dominate me again. so fucking hot
• falling asleep with you
• waking up beside you
• when i got really drunk and you reminded me we didn't have to do anything