GTKY - tell me about your SO!

[rooskie]

I like GTKYs.

1) How long have you been together?

2) How did you meet?

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love?

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty?

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy?

[veganontuesdays]

1) How long have you been together? 7 years, married for 3.5

2) How did you meet? We worked together at a restaurant.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He is INCREDIBLE with our son.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He leaves the cabinets open in the kitchen and I almost take myself out on them daily.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? He cracks me up because I think he is more addicted to the POAS aspect than me. He wants a new test daily and then it's like he celebrates all over again. lol

[cutay]

1) How long have you been together? We've been friends/together for about 7 years. Married for 3.

2) How did you meet? We met online actually. Not as taboo as it once was.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? This is pretty broad, but he never makes me feel like I'm in "this thing" (life/parenting) alone. It's always a team effort.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He leaves his socks right outside the hamper. Literally right next to it. Every day. Argh!

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? We have been trying for this baby for 1.5 years, and had an appointment with a RE if this cycle didn't work. When I found out, my immediate response was to call him at work freaking out, but I held it together and put a big sister shirt on DD. When he got home he saw it immediately and actually started crying. It was absolutely perfect.

[belle0720]

1) How long have you been together? Almost 10 years dating, almost 4 years married.

2) How did you meet? Through my (then) roommate and his cousin who were dating at the time. We bar hopped in the city on St. Patrick's Day. I was into him instantly and looked him up on Myspace  a few days later. We finally hung out again that summer and started dating after he made the slick move of borrowing my phone to text himself and get my number.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He helps me with cloth diaper laundry. It's not the laundry itself that makes me smile; it's that he didn't bat an eye when I said I wanted to cloth diaper and that he will do whatever to make me happy and support our daughter.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He's the most indecisive person I know. It's unnerving.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? We're both still in disbelief really. I'd had a bit of spotting last week (assuming implantation bleeding?) and thought we were out this cycle. I vented to him, we were both upset, and he was worried that "his swimmers weren't good". And then AF didn't show up, I got a BFP on Easter, gave him the test in a plastic egg, and he was like, "I thought you already got your period??" So it's been kind of weird and I think we'll both feel more excited after our first ultrasound.

[Deleted]

1. Together 16 years this Fall, married 5 this Spring.

2. We were on the same floor of our freshman year residence hall

3. There is very little I don't love. In this season of life, especially, I love that he is an amazing partner and father. I could not ask for more or better.

4. Leaving cabinet doors and/or baby gates open after he comes up the stairs before bed (I like them shut because while she hasn't crib-jail-broken yet, she can open doors, so if she does...)

5. Not really. With our history we are both cautiously excited.

[cutay]

Apr 19, 2017 16:00:38 GMT -5 belle0720 said:

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He's the most indecisive person I know. It's unnerving.

Omg. My hubs can't make a decision to save his life at times. It's the worst. He's always "whatever you want/think". That is not the right answer! Indecisiveness is so frustrating.

[rooskie]

1) How long have you been together? Together 6.5 yrs married almost 5.

2) How did you meet? Online. I rejected him once before I agreed to meet.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He still likes to hold my hand all the time. And he talks me down when I get worked up.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He won't put dishes in the dishwasher unless I specifically tell him. Then he only puts the dinner plates in and leaves tons in the sink.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? He keeps telling me he is jealous that I get to have the baby with me all the time at this point and wants to rub my stomach before I go to work each day. He reminds me to take care of the peanut.

[babydsmama]

1) Dating 7 years married 3 in June.
2) We met through his brother. I worked with his brother's then GF and now wife. He was home on leave from Iraq. The night we met I reluctantly met up with them at a bar. I really didn't want to go bc I was super hungover and of course they show up with DH and I think he's so cute. I didn't say anything to my friend about thinking he was hot and I was thinking I pretty much ruined my chances and I could never see this guy again bc he's going back to a war zone for 5 months. A few months later my friend called me telling me she got an email from him while he was deployed asking my situation and if she thought I would go on a date with him when he got home. He got home and we did and that's how it started.

3) He's pretty busy with his current job working 15-17 hr days in prep for their deployment but he tries to make sure that he sees DD. Also he deployed when DD was 11 days old and when she was a few months old he mailed her those recorded hallmark books. I'm still not sure how he got them to Afghanistan but I still tear up when she reads those books. Or right now thinking about them. 😭😭
Overall he's probably the most thoughtful Dad and H. He always makes time for us even though the Army tries to own his 24/7.

4) He does GIANT laundry loads. Like wayyyy too big for everything to get adequately clean in my opinion. And then leaves them in the dryer for days so that when I go to do laundry I have to move the enormous load in the dryer before I can finish my laundry.

5) More funny moments than awe. When I showed him the positive test instead of hugging me he was like, " well there goes the neighborhood."

[babydsmama]

Omg TL;DR Babyds!

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Apr 19, 2017 16:42:59 GMT -5 babydsmama said:

Omg TL;DR Babyds!

No super sweet. Military families like yours make a lot of sacrifices and I'm happy to read how special he makes you feel.

[babydsmama]

Apr 19, 2017 16:47:41 GMT -5 @officedronette said:

Apr 19, 2017 16:42:59 GMT -5 babydsmama said:

Omg TL;DR Babyds!

No super sweet. Military families like yours make a lot of sacrifices and I'm happy to read how special he makes you feel.

Thanks girl! I can't picture myself with anyone else (as corny as that is to say or type) and the Army is a part of who he is! Sometimes we hate it, but it has also done a lot for us. 😊

[andi]

1) How long have you been together? Together for 11, married for 6

2) How did you meet? Before I had been formally introduced, DH stole my car. We were all at a BBQ and my car was the only one not blocked in so he took it to go pick up a friend. When he got back, he left a dollar bill taped to my steering wheel, and he had written "for gas" and his number on it. I went to investigate what asshole stole my car and the rest is history.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He tells me every day what a good mom I am and always give me compliments.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He's so messy, and it's only because he knows it drives me nuts and I'll clean it up for him. He leaves everything out.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? He's very vested in this. He surprised me with an at home Doppler yesterday and spent 15 minutes trying to find the heartbeat even though we both know its way too early to find it with that right now.

[bradysalon]

1) we have been together since 2010.

2) we met working at the same bar. He was my manager and we were really good friends before we got together.

3) He cleans- more than me.

4) He watches sports ALL THE DAMN TIME.

5) He cried when I told him.

[notelsie]

1) How long have you been together? 9 years together this summer, and 6 years married this September

2) How did you meet? We met when we were in 1st grade. I lived a couple of houses down from him, and we went to the same school for a couple of years. I actually had a crush on him around 3rd grade or so.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? I love how amazing he is with DS. My heart is so happy.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He has a listening problem sometimes.. lol

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? He's talked to the baby a little. We are both still in shock and a bit scared to lose again so we have our walls up to avoid more disappointment.

[ars093s]

1) How long have you been together? Known each other for almost 10 years married for 7.5

2) How did you meet? At work - he was the office manager at my new job who helped me get set up with my badge, parking, etc. We were together within 2 months and the rest is history.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He goes out of his way to make me feel special - setting up weekend getaways or planning a surprise dinner. He's a very thoughtful person.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He's so particular about everything. To him, there's always a right way (his way) and a wrong way to do even the smallest tasks - dishes, laundry, cooking, etc. I'm much more of a go with the flow type so I can't comprehend the rigidity.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? He keeps talking to our DD about a baby in mama's belly and does she want a brother or a sister? It's very sweet...and DD has a newfound interest in her baby dolls I blame on him.

[leekpartyof2]

1) How long have you been together?--Met in 2013, married in 2015...wow that seems fast!

2) How did you meet? Online which is pretty much the only way our paths would have ever crossed.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He is always on my side, which sounds corny, but I have never been so supported.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He is always on his phone!!

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? I told him with a card that I found on Etsy and when he got to the Daddy part, the look on his face was priceless. We both thought it would take longer than it did, so there's a fair amount of shock but he brought me some La Croix last night saying that it was for Squeakers. So yeah, he's been pretty awwwwesome

[Waffles]

1) How long have you been together? 20 years! Married 12 this year. We met young.

2) How did you meet? In a bar where I went to all the time and was friends with most of the staff, he worked there.

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He makes a point of asking how my day was every day, and genuinely cares.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? Dirty clothes mostly end up on top of, next to or in front of the laundry basket, rarely in.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? He looks at me like I invented chocolate or something. And he's been doing my injections for me because I am a big chicken.

[jrun2013]

1) How long have you been together? Together for 7, married for 4.

2) How did you meet? Eharmony

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? We have very similar senses of humor, so he cracks me up.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? Leaves his socks all over the place and his computer bag on the floor all the time.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? I don't know about awww moments, but he's been really great about everything. I couldn't ask for a better person to parent with.

[mandypandy]

1) How long have you been together? We've been together 16 years but married for 10 today!

2) How did you meet? Middle school. ;P

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? How he plays with the kids. No matter how tired he is he usually spends at least an hour running around with them when he gets home from work. He's a great dad.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? Leaving freaking cups and silverware next to the sink rather than putting them in the sink.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? Eh... not sure but it was super cute watching DD's expression when she saw the heartbeat on the ultrasound yesterday.

[daystardreams]

1) How long have you been together?
Same as @leekpartyoftwo We met and started dating in 2013 and we got married in 2015. It seems so crazy to think I've only known him 4 years!

2) How did you meet?
My BFF's husband worked with H. I was talking to my BFF about just wanting a good guy and her H said that he had a friend at work that had just told him the exact same things I was saying. We set up a casual meet and greet the next week and sparks flew!

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love?
He always puts me first. In little stuff but he always does, if he had one dollar left he'd spend it on me. I tell him he doesn't have to do that but he always does!

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty?
He takes his socks off when he's sitting on the couch, I'm sure he means to take them to the hamper the next time he goes through but he forgets and I find dirty socks in the couch cushions!
5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy?
We're so nervous after the losses but every time I read him the beta number, he just smiles and smiles and it's the cutest thing ever!

[kensie5226]

1) How long have you been together? 5 years

2) How did you meet? Work

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He rubs my shoulders when I have a headache.

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? He's got a tone that makes me automatically defensive.

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? Nope, this one hasn't been magical.

[mzungu]

1) How long have you been together? 7 years

2) How did you meet? At his college campus while I was visiting my cousin

3) What's one thing your SO does that you love? He trusts me and is my cheerleader

4) What's one thing your SO does that drives you batty? Puts his dirty undies right by his bed and not 3 feet away in the hamper - but I don't hassle him over it lol

5) Has your SO had any "awwwww" moments related to this pregnancy? It took him seeing 6 pregnancy tests to believe I was pregnant (we have always needed fertility meds!) then as soon as he believed me, he names the baby bahahah