What's a small, silly thing you and your partner like to do?
Using my husband and me for an example, when one of us is going to the grocery store, the other person often adds something like "Love!" and "More love!" to the grocery shopping list.
We laugh about the faces our cat makes when we scratch under her chin, so sometimes I’ll scratch under my husband’s chin and he’ll make the same exaggerated face she does, or vice versa.
When my ex and i would watch Star Trek Enterprise, I would start screaming like Homer Simpson having night terrors whenever the theme song would start.
He'd be laughing so hard, he could barely get to the remote to skip the intro, all the while I was fake screaming basically in his face.
I wait in line with the regular customers and then at the end of my transaction I use the worst possible pickup lines imaginable, and it always lands a perfect ten.
You look like you come from excellent chewing stock my dear.
Oh? How do you know? A man like you probably works with cattle with those big guns.
How do you like to mooove on over to my place after work?
We talk about getting things for the cats that they wouldn't actually like, as if they would love them. Or we talk about bringing the cats along on trips they would hate, saying they'd like it.
We live pretty close to a giant body of water, and I always have a fake story about how the cats love to go over on a leash (they are indoor cats and one of them is on a spectrum)
If we're in the middle of sexy time and he asks me to pause for a moment because he's worried he's gonna finish too soon, I ask him ridiculous questions about Lord of the Rings.
"Why didn't they just fly to Mordor on the eagles?"
I think other people who are more touchy would not appreciate ours but when one of us goes away and we are greeting each other, instead of hugging or kissing like normal humans we thumbs up.
My partner's a little awkward and neither of us like public displays of affection, so he just thumbsed up me once when I was going in for a hug and I still think it's the funniest thing.
I'm very 'touchy' as you would say but I still love this one 🤩. I would miss the kiss/hug eventually, but I think it would get a laugh out of me 9/10 times if we just thumbsed up, hahaha
When we were dating, my wife and I would poke our fingers in each other's mouths when the other person started yawning. It was funny, but we got tired of it really fast and made a pact not to do it anymore.
We've been together for 8 years and we still nervously side-eye each other when we yawn. If we're feeling mischievous, we will flinch towards the one yawning to scare them.
We'll play random little "games" while trying to get to sleep, usually without actually saying anything. Thumb wars, call-and-response tapping, spelling things out by touch, and most often, doing that stupid circle game thing while the other one is trying to hold hands.
I'll also sometimes hold my phone up to my dog's ear and he'll say "Moshi moshi, Puppy desu!" Very stupid but it cracks me up every time.
While driving in the car around town, we try to get the other of us to look a dog pooping, if we see it first. Married 25 years and I honestly don’t know why we started… sure it’s childish, but maybe a contributing factor in our long marriage! 😂
This reminds me of a running gag my husband and I have. One night while I was at work he called me to ask where I put the colander because he wanted to make macaroni. It must have been a weird sounding one-sided conversation to my coworkers because when I got off the phone one of them asked me if "where's the colander" was out code word for "let's have sex tonight." I told my husband the story later and needless to say it became our code word for sexy times.
Like when we’re skating (we’re both bad at it) I call it a danger kiss. Or when we’re eating hotdogs and one of us is still chewing I’ll call it ‘hot dog kiss’. Their kid hated when we kissed until I started doing this and now she thinks it’s adorable. Which is great because I’m trying to show her what a happy, healthy, and loving relationship should look like since she hasn’t had good examples in the past. Plus my partner thinks it’s adorable too and giggles when I do it.
We also intentionally mispronounce words. Hot dog is ‘hot dong’. Hamburger and ‘hahmberder’. Shit like that.
We pull stupid faces at each other in public because when we were dating long distance in our mutual chat group that is how we would flirt and signify something was sent via phone.
I work in a hospital. Since Covid, instead of hugging after I got home from work, we started doing "foot cuddles", just touching our feet together before I went to shower. We still do it to this day.
We talk for our dog. We don’t have children, but our dog has full on conversations with us but it’s just my wife and I making his “voice.” It always goes along with the context and it seems to be what he would be saying. Our old dog and our current dog even have their own distinct intonation/dialect when saying things.
It’s to the point that sometimes we look at each other and go “huh, it’s weird when you think about the fact that he’s never actually really spoken before….”
We talk to each other in accents. Sometimes it's a southern drawl, sometimes it's high Bri'ish. Sometimes it's urban street slang. We also do silly walks in public.
I'm a morning person, she's not. When we shower together I'm not allowed to look at her because she's not ready for my cheer. I do it anyway, she slaps me. Been 20 years and it's worth it every time!
If I get up for a job earlier than her, I'll write a small note and hide it somewhere. It'll just say something like how pleased to see me the neighbour's goose was, or how big a shit the dog had in the morning
When snuggling, we realized that an affectionate nuzzle to someone's ear can make a satisfying "fwip" sound if you bend their ear back a little and let it release.
It always makes us smile and chuckle a bit. I've seen wolves and african wild dogs doing similar things in videos, so I know we aren't the only ones doing it :)
Like when we’re skating (we’re both bad at it) I call it a danger kiss. Or when we’re eating hotdogs and one of us is still chewing I’ll call it ‘hot dog kiss’. Their kid hated when we kissed until I started doing this and now she thinks it’s adorable. Which is great because I’m trying to show her what a happy, healthy, and loving relationship should look like since she hasn’t had good examples in the past. Plus my partner thinks it’s adorable too and giggles when I do it.
We also intentionally mispronounce words. Hot dog is ‘hot dong’. Hamburger and ‘hahmberder’. Shit like that.
Forgot to comment: We like to do a Robert DeNiro impression in that movie with Ben Stiller whenever we say goodbye: "I'm on to you, fucker" then point both eyes and the index straight forward.
We talk to each other like Giwaffe & Cwow (https://youtu.be/8_Dm5xkHzio). Sometimes we'll quote things from the skit, but a lot of times we'll just say normal stuff in that voice to be cute.