50 Wordless Ways to Say “I Love You”
- Holding their hands when they are shaking.
- Tucking the sheets around them when they stir during the night.
- Traveling long distances just to see them.
- Making their favorite meal when they are having a hard day.
- Giving them a kiss before going to work and they are still in bed.
- Tucking your head into their neck during a hug.
- Lightly kissing on top of a freshly formed bruise.
- Buying them something unrequested because it made you think of them.
- Participating in their hobby even if it doesn’t personally interest you.
- Sitting in comfortable silence while eating a meal.
- Telling them a dumb joke just to see their smile.
- Following their family traditions that they enjoy.
- Playing your fingers through their hair while sitting next to them on the couch.
- Singing and dancing to their favorite song.
- Calming them down when they have a bad dream.
- Having a tickle fight until you’re breathless.
- Folding their clean laundry and putting it away.
- Sharing a soft smile across a crowded room.
- Bringing them a plate of their favorite sliced fruit.
- Washing their back/hair in the shower.
- Sharing your umbrella with them in the rain.
- Listening to them while they vent.
- Taking a picture together to print and hang later.
- Tracing your names together in the sand.
- Wearing clothes in their favorite color.
- Doing a chore for them that you know they aren’t fond of.
- Leaving a plate of food in the microwave for when they have a late shift.
- Sharing a drink with them from the same straw.
- Tucking their hair behind their ear to help them get it out of their face.
- Helping scratch that itch on their back they can’t reach.
- Pulling a chair out for them to sit down at the table.
- Wrapping a blanket around them when they are sitting on the couch and watching a show.
- Throwing away their piles of tissues when they have a cold.
- Mending an item of their clothing that was ripped.
- Running out in the middle of the night to get a food item they’re craving.
- Helping brush their hair after a shower.
- Making sure to be quiet while they’re taking a nap.
- Letting them warm their cold hands under your shirt.
- Giving them your dessert when you eat out because it’s their favorite.
- Making a goofy face until they notice and laugh.
- Giving them space when they express wanting to have some time alone.
- Holding their hand while walking, even if there isn’t a crowd.
- Holding shopping bags that are too heavy for them.
- Standing between them and a busy road.
- Rubbing the back of their hand with a thumb.
- Giving them a back massage when they flop on the couch or bed.
- Staying up half the night to finish a game with them.
- Getting them a coffee just the way they like it.
- Giving them a tight hug that makes them lose their breath.
- Buying them a special treat when you go out shopping.
I know that I don’t shut up when I should. I know you didn’t read what I wrote. I am having trouble letting go of the idea that you may some day wake up and I am good enough as I am, at all times.
(Source: soracities, via favoritepractical-witch)
Oh shut up, we all know I will always love you and I will always be your dummy.
Fuck fuck FUCK YOU’RE RIGHT OK I MISS YOU AND THIS SHIT HURTS SO FUCKING MUCH!
I wish I was so much less and everything, all at once. I know I will do alright in the future, I am sure of it. But I’m still scared that the process of getting over you involves losing you completely. I say that because you mention not wanting to see me and it guts me. It was implied we wouldn’t see each other but you wanted to make sure and that killed me. I didn’t think I should see you until much later anyway but having you double check was the twist of the knife. If that kills me, then is it even possible to get over you while being your friend? I don’t want to lose you. Not again.
And even though I never got over you the first time and I never even got a chance to stop loving you or think about other people romantically, I still felt the loss so deeply. I wished you would message me every day, and when I was ready to carry on with my plans without you, you came back and I let myself fall all over again. I always wish the universe had given us more time for a break because I knew neither one of us was ready.
I’m thinking about it and if I hadn’t messaged you today, you probably wouldn’t have messaged me either. Oh god, I’m just being a clingy friend now. But it’s worse than Astrid because she’s never been in love with you.
I want to beg you to come back to me every day, but I know you need your space. Every day I start to pray that you come back to me when I remember that if you came back, you would not even be happy with me. So instead I pray that you find happiness and that I find it, too. But an hour passes and again I think of you… maybe I should start praying and wishing with a deadline because this is taking too fucking long.
I have the strength because I am standing and I am alive. I am emotional but that doesn’t make me weird. My insecurities are overbearing, but the rest of me that loves you so deeply is not something I am ashamed of. I am enough, I’m just not the right one with you perhaps. We are not on the same page right now, and if we are, well we certainly aren’t letting each other read off the other’s book.
It’s all of these thoughts, all of this shit that has me going back and forth between letting go and holding on to the idea of me and you. Whether if it’s as friends or lovers. I can’t decide if I should fuck off and move on, or if you’re thinking and feeling the same thing I am… I don’t want to let go because if I let go, you might get the idea that I don’t love you and, god fucking dammit, Ali, I do. So fucking much. I don’t want to let go because I don’t want you to think that any of this was fake. I don’t want to break any of my promises with you. I don’t want to move on because it means that I didn’t mean any of it– and I do, so deeply. I don’t want to move on because it goes against what I think best shows you how I feel. But is that always the best choice? You’ll move on… you assure me it doesn’t change how you feel about me, but I’m not sure how that works. You tell me you still love me, but I wouldn’t waste time being away from the person I love. Maybe I’m getting it all wrong too. I don’t know, I just know I want to be with you. I just know I want the future with you. I want you and me in an apartment, or house, whatever you want. I want you and me as a family. I want you and me.
I thought you might enjoy this, but I was too shy and too vulnerable to send it to you.
I think I got the wrong idea about you and me… you used to tell me I was your best friend too, but maybe that has changed. If you’re leaving this friendship behind too… I’ll miss you like hell, but thank you for trying until you could no longer.
