Great illustrations to accompany the advice, alanocu! I especially like the second non-bedroom activity photo and the two clowns at the family gathering (next to the last photo).

just be nice, tell them how good they look and how wonderful they are
oh and make them feel good

great new nickname like arnold's T2 (terminator 2)

I love it when my partner makes dinner for us.
It looks and tastes so much better than if someone
else prepared it.

These are all so true! I will try to apply all of them.

I really agree with the small gestures. They're so simple and require little effort really. I'm well chuffed that the bf does a lot of these little things.

Touch my hair as you pass my chair .... Little things mean a lot.

Title of a beautiful love song in 1954 by Kitty Kallen. A very talented American band singer.

Two things: consideration and communication

They forgot one thing, and that is money, without money they cannot go shopping, and if they can't go shopping everything else does not matter. lol
Money trumps everything, even when they tell you it doesn't, they are just using reverse psychology to make you think that. lol