Reasons Why I Love You
"Virtual" Love
Once my boyfriend told me that he is planning to buy a new PC. So, I thought this is my chance of telling him how much I loved him. This idea is particularly good if you know programming. So what I did was I went to a computer shop and bought a 20GB hard disk and then formatted it myself. Before that I've created a simple program that once installed will pop up each time the computer is booted and each time it pops up, it'll display a love message, it includes something like, why I love him, what makes him so special, etc. I presented the disk to him without telling what I have installed inside! When he finally bought the computer and booted it, he was so surprised! He loved it so much as it is quite creative, he said! -submitted by Leena
"Why I Love You" Heart Pillows
The idea is to make enough to give one a day until a special day arrives – building up to it. Since our anniversary is the 23rd of February, I made 10 of these to build up "10 days of love.†First, I wrote down 10 different reasons why I loved my lover, then added a somewhat simple illustration (stick people work - it did for me). Have the illustrations go with the reasons you came up with. Then I bought 1 yard each of red and white fabric (any material you like) and a variety of different colors of fabric paint. You will also need cotton stuffing, the kind you would use for stuffed animals (it can be found in any craft section or store). Make up a heart pattern/template that you will use to make all the heart cutouts, (plain white paper works for this: fold it in half first, trace out half a heart on the fold line and then cut it out, you will get a nice, symmetrical heart). Pin or trace your pattern onto the material and cut out an equal number of hearts from each fabric color (I did 10 of each color for a total of 20 hearts). Each finished heart with be white on one side, red on the other. On all of the red hearts, use white fabric paint to write out a reason why you love your lover. On all of the white hearts, use the colored fabric paints to draw the illustration to go with it. Once they have all dried, place the corresponding reason why you love your lover with the illustration face to face (so that the blank sides of the fabric are facing outwards) hand sew or use a sewing machine to sew all around the edges. Don't forget to leave a small opeining to turn the heart inside out and for stuffing in the cotton. Once they have been turned inside out, stuff them and then hand stitch the small opening shut. Once they were finished, every day for the 10 days leading up to our anniversary, I gave him one of the pillows until he got all 10. -submitted by Rachel
100 Reasons
For our 3-month anniversary I made a list of 100 different reasons why I loved my guy. They were just simple things like how he says I love you. Each month I give him another reason to add to his list. It's a fun way to keep the romance alive. We both love it! -submitted by Casey
100 Reasons Why I Love You
My fiancé and I live about an hour away from each other, and both of us are in college. Sometimes we get caught up in the hubbub of college life. We chat on the phone a lot, but that gets expensive for a broke, college girl, so we also chat on the computer. One day, he asked me if I was sure that I loved him and I told him of course. He asked me why, and I told him there were at least 100 reasons. When he asked me to name 5, I told him to give me a minute, I had to do something. In the buddy info of my chat program, I listed 10 reasons why I love him, for him and everyone else I know to see. I told him to check, and he called me up as soon as he read it gushing about how much he loved me. A week later, I put up 10 more, and the same thing the week after that. Once he caught on that there was a new set of 10 every week, he started doing the same thing. It lasted for 10 weeks. We had so much fun doing it, we just kept it up. It's a great little reminder to have sometimes, just to let you know that you're thought of. -submitted by Melissa
101 Reasons Poster
I racked my brain for something special to give my boyfriend for our one-year anniversary. I bought the biggest sheet of poster board I could find, and folded it in half like a gigantic card. I wrote "101 reasons why I Love..." on the front and on the inside I wrote “YOU†right in the middle, then wrote the reasons all over the card (and did manage to come up with 101 things!). These things can be qualities the person has, or it can even be memories. Like for one I did, "Because you went down the big scary white slide at Waterworld even though you didn't want to", or "because you go to Chick Flicks with me", stuff like that. Come up with a list and check them off as you write them on the poster so you don't have to keep going back and actually counting them on the poster. (This gets confusing) I did the reasons in different colors too. He loved it! He said it was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for him. -submitted by Rebecca
20 Special Things
Sometimes you don't really realize how special all the little things you do for each other really mean. I'd suggest listing about 20 of the tiniest things you just love and send it to your significant other. Things like the way they wink at you just cause or smile at you across the room. -submitted by Briscoe's girl
21 Ways You Drive Me Crazy
Before my now boyfriend turned 21 last year on the 21st of December, I wanted to show him how much I cared for him. So I decided to get creative and made twenty-one little notes saying how much he drives me crazy and stuck them into twenty-one fortune cookies. I put the fortune cookies in a bucket that I decorated with our pictures and surprised him with it at work on December 1st. I told him he needed to open one fortune cookie a day ‘til his birthday, read the notes, paste the notes on a card I made, and it would reveal a message on the last day (his birthday). He was a sport and played along, excited every morning to open a new fortune cookie. Until this day, he kept the fortune cookies and said he would never eat them because it is a memory of the first birthday I spent with him. -submitted by Christalle
24 I Love You's
This anniversary was important to me because it was the longest relationship I've ever had. I bought her the movie we saw on our first date and added my ticket stub with it. I also gave her a hand-written card. I wrote, "I love you" in 24 different languages (one for every week we've been together) and said, "No matter how many different ways there are to say it, there aren't enough ways for me to truly express how much I love you." She loved it. We're still together going on 11 months. -submitted by Lyndon
A Beary Special Reminder
My boyfriend and I received a teddy bear from a little boy on the plane who said we needed it. The bear had a red shirt on that said, "Jesus loves me"... we have been together roughly 5 years, but have been separated for 4 by distance. Every time we come together we bring the bear and take turns bringing him home -- a reminder of how infinite our love is. Whenever we are alone (while the other is in the shower, sleeping, out) we leave little love notes in the bear’s sleeves. Now the bear has our infinite love tucked in all the time ... until we can finally be together forever. -submitted by Dee
A Big Heart
For our 1-year anniversary I took a lot of pictures that I had of him and I, and cut out a huge heart. I cut all the pictures so they've fit on the outside edge. There was about a 2-inch border of our pictures around the heart. Then on the inside, I wrote a little something so he knew how much I loved him. He loved it and hung it over his bed! -submitted by Kim
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