(My boyfriend and I spend the evening playing at ‘Draw Something’. The time comes to go to bed.)

Me: “How about giving each other real drawings?”

Boyfriend: “What? Like on pieces of paper and everything?!”

(My parents and I are at home during spring break playing Taboo.)

Mom: “This is something I rarely, if ever, exceed.”

Me: *with no hesitation* “Expectations!”

(The word was “speed limit”.)

(My fiancé and I are in bed, and I’m cold.)

Me: “Come here, I need my human blanket.”

Fiancé: “Okay.” *proceeds to lie on top of me*

Me: “Not really what I had in mind…”

(My fiancé and I are watching TV and talking. His mother has just been diagnosed with glaucoma, which will cause her to slowly go blind.)

Fiancé: “This is why my mother always gives to the guide dog charities. Because she knew she’d need one some day.”

Me: “I’d love a guide dog if I ever go blind. It would be so much better than the stick.”

Fiancé: “I’d want the dog and the stick. And good vision!”

(I am getting ready for bed, while my fiancé is lying on the bed and watching me. I bend over to pick up my pyjama pants from the floor.)

Fiancé: “I like your butt.”

Me: “Aw, thank you, baby. I like your butt, too!”

Fiancé: “No, my butt is fat!”

(A moment passes.)

Fiancé: “You know, when I look at your butt, I feel a lot better.”