While every relationship will have its ups and downs, most couples will experience incredibly wholesome moments that will make your eyes water with happiness. So when Reddit user u/Fickle-Bar-4787 asked the r/AskWomen: "What is the most wholesome moment you've experienced with a S.O.?" — I thought it would be sweet to highlight these positive moments. Here's what the couples had to say:
1. "We were cuddling together, and I was having a rough time with my mental health. He was a sweetheart, cuddling me and reassuring me that I was okay and loved. I told him I knew I was loved and never have to question that with him. He got quiet and just held me tighter. We had a talk after and he elaborated on how it meant a lot to him that I was so sure how much he cared since he's had some history with partners questioning him. It was a rough moment for both of us but it was such a sweet connection for us."
2. "I have been super sick lately, and I’m almost seven months pregnant. I asked my husband to braid my hair the other night because I’ve been so exhausted. I expected him to just do a regular braid like usual but he opened up his computer and looked up a French braid YouTube tutorial. He brushed my hair a bunch (he knows I love my hair being brushed), and braided my hair. He had to redo it a couple of times but it was so sweet. We are having a baby girl and he said he wanted to learn how to do hair better so he can do mine and our girl's."
3. "When we were dating, I was young and dumb and had no idea how much alcohol I could handle (not much), and drank a whole bottle of a honey liqueur. I woke up the next morning in his parents' guest room, and he was lying on the floor next to me. I asked him why he was there and he said, 'You kept stopping breathing so I stayed here last night to make sure you were okay.' He never touched me, just made sure I was breathing, all night. Now, we’re married."
4. "I recently had a bad panic attack/existential crisis, which I’m still kind of recovering from, and have since developed a huge anxiety about death. I was crying to my boyfriend about how I was scared that there was nothing after this and he held me and said, 'Even if there is nothing, we’ll find each other in the nothingness and be nothing together.' It made me cry and it was exactly what I needed to hear. I remind myself of that every time I feel myself spiraling."
5. "Shortly after my dad passed away very unexpectedly, I was still prone to just breaking down and crying about it. It was a rough time. I was getting out of the shower one day and ended up curled up on my bed in nothing but my towel, sobbing. He came in with a box of chocolate-covered pretzels and just started feeding them to me and making me laugh. He was so patient and understanding during that whole period of time that I knew I'd found someone special."
6. "I had a rough time with the birth of our first kid. Lots of unmedicated pushing only for it to end with an emergency C-section, for which I had to be unconscious, and all the recovery that comes along with that. So I'm in the hospital and the nurse tells me it's been too long since I've taken a shit so I was going to need a suppository. I was terrified of what this all was going to feel like with my fresh abdominal incision and embarrassed that this was happening right in front of my husband, who was sitting in the room holding the baby, and I was preemptively embarrassed about what was going to happen afterward. If our positions had been reversed, I probably would have excused myself and given him some space. So yes, what he did surprise me."
"After the nurse did what she needed to do, he sat and told me gross stories of the various digestive troubles suffered by his mates in Iraq (heat, stress, poor facilities, and MREs three meals a day.) And he recited this poem: 'Here I sit, all brokenhearted. Tried to shit but only farted.' And the corollary: 'Brokenhearted, here I sit. Tried to fart but took a shit.' Which made me laugh so painfully hard that I thought I was going to bust a stitch. And after a bit, things proceeded as they were meant to and it wasn't really that bad."