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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.

We make dinosaur sounds when we're trying to find each other. Sometimes in public. Works well, would recommend.

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.

https://youtu.be/glOjvKlva7w?si=Sta2HscU2Ck9HLj7

"love you" became "wuvs" became, via autocorrect, "wolves", became the wolf emoji

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.

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?

Oh gosh! Tucks chin. I-I don't know...

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.

We make grossly exaggerated corny sex jokes when we're horny and want to get down to it.

• wife is preparing hard boil eggs

• Well... talking about hard balls...

And then one thing leads to the other 👍

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.

Whenever one of us asks the other if they need anything at the store, they respond with, "a new brain, please."

We come up with comedy sketches just for fun.

We also like to redub shows we're watching/make up ridiculous scenarios for fun, kinda like our own little MST3k/RiffTrax.

Talking whistfully about what crazy thing we can do for a fun adventure together

Strip Poker was her favourite, especially after I dropped the pretense that I had any shot of winning and started strip teasing her

This thread is so wholesome ❤️ It made me smille to know how many people are loved and cherished by a significant other.

• “I’m going in the shower, do you want me to get anything while I’m there?”
• see you later, crocodile
• in a while, alligator

Instead of "love you" she says "bluv blu" so we now use two rhyming words. "Glove zoo" "dove stew"

Sometimes sent as emojis to confuse the other person

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.

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.

Fart in the car and lock the windows!

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!

Misheard "love you lots" as "adidas", and it stuck around. It's like our own little codeword of appreciation

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.

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! 😂

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.

When it's time for bed, we do crosswords together for 20 minutes or so. I think it also helps wind down in general.