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To All:<p>I find sometimes that I come here hoping to see some of the good things that are happening and they are hard to find. I wanted to start a thread where we could maybe add the good things no matter how small so that we could maybe see the positive side of all this.<p>I'll go first. My H just came home for lunch and brought me a fountain diet coke. He knows that with my job (in home daycare) that I love having a break with a diet coke. I like it from a fountain best. I don't think he has ever done this for me before without asking. He did this just out of the blue. A little thing for sure but it made my day a little brighter and brought a smile to my face. ![[Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]](http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/smile.gif) <p>It's the little things that we often don't see or give enough credit to. <p>Hope you all are having a good day too. ![[Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]](http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/wink.gif) <p>Steph<br>
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Steph,<p>I agree. It's those little things that mean so much. They are the first things to go when things get bad. <br>As you know I've been knocking myself out just to get some time with my wife. Even when I get time there are no "little things" in between. The other day I was using the computer installing some new software I bought for my oldest son. While I was doing it my wife comes up behind me and rests her chin on my shoulder. A very little thing, but something she hasn't done in ages.<br>Little things says a person is comfortable with you, at least more than they were before. It says the guard is down for a time. The more little things that happen the more it points to a healthy relationship. Here's to little things.
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Those "little things" - those Love Bank deposits that we miss so much when they're lacking - are so important. <p>It may only be a couple of "units" being deposited, but they add up.<p>After a few days of being rather "polite" to each other following a particularly nasty argument, last night after we went to bed and he thought I was asleep, he put his hand gently on my shoulder. This may seem a tiny, tiny thing to most people, but it wasn't to me. It felt like he was reaching out and although I didn't start up a conversation, I took that act of kindness and hold it in my heart.<p>We have a long way to go. A LONG way. So many things are mixed up for us. But those little things you speak of are so incredibly necessary in the whole scheme of things. <p>Thanks for reminding me. Happy New Year all.
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