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"  Tokens of affection &amp;quot;I always wake up thirsty at night, so before bed Caitlin brings me a tall glass of ice water, since I often forget to get one for myself. It shows me that she knows my quirks and that she loves me.&amp;quot; Brian Lowe, 30 (pictured with his wife, Caitlin Faulkner, 28) Maplewood, NJ  &amp;quot;Bill often surprises me with a cup of to-go coffee. He doesn&amp;#039;t even drink coffee or know coffee &amp;#039;lingo,&amp;#039; so he&amp;#039;s really going out of his way when he stops and orders a grande vanilla latte for me. Whenever I get one, I&amp;#039;m grateful for the effort he made.&amp;quot; Michelle Sitton, 40 Lenexa, KS &amp;quot;Oftentimes I&amp;#039;ll hear a song I like on the radio and I&amp;#039;ll ask Todd if he&amp;#039;s heard it before. Minutes later he&amp;#039;ll emerge from our home office with the song downloaded on iTunes and playing in the background. He&amp;#039;s so considerate to find my &amp;#039;new favorite song.&amp;#039; By tuning in to what I&amp;#039;m interested in, he makes me feel that I truly matter to him. It makes me want to do something sweet for him in return.&amp;quot; Nicole Engstrom, 39 Silverton, OR &amp;quot;For each of my four pregnancies, I had awful morning sickness, and the only food I was able to hold down was these yummy peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches my husband made. So Craig would make me sandwiches and leave them next to my side of the bed. Every morning I would wake up and find a plate with my sandwich and a glass of milk. It was his way of making things a little better for me since I felt so sick.&amp;quot; Marie Powell, 41 Stamford, CT &amp;quot;My husband brings me back little things from his business trips, like a Starbucks city mug \u2014 I collect them \u2014 or something else that relates to the specific city he visited. It means the world to me because I know he&amp;#039;s thinking about me when he&amp;#039;s away.&amp;quot; Vanessa Medina, 28 Schaumburg, IL &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a runner, and every now and then when I put on my running shoes, I&amp;#039;ll find something that my wife has hidden inside. In the past, I&amp;#039;ve discovered new running socks, sunscreen, and even a tacky headband. It&amp;#039;s a small, funny thing she does that makes me crack a smile during my long run. It also makes me want to think of silly ways to surprise her back.&amp;quot; Mike Tarpsher, 40 Los Angeles SHE SAYS, HE SAYS Cara Good, 35, and Jonathan Good, 38, Tustin, CA &amp;quot;When Jonathan travels for work, he brings back food with the word &amp;#039;Cara&amp;#039; in the name. For example, he recently gave me Cadbury&amp;#039;s Caramilk, a caramel and chocolate bar from Canada. It&amp;#039;s always entertaining to see what new &amp;#039;Carafood&amp;#039; he&amp;#039;s discovered.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Cara sneaks one of our two dogs&amp;#039; play toys into my suitcase before I leave on a business trip. It keeps a little piece of our home life close by when I&amp;#039;m far away, and I appreciate that.&amp;quot; Alex Barron, 30, and Frederik Tylim, 31, Dallas &amp;quot;Frederik loves surprising me with little treats. He&amp;#039;ll sneak chocolate truffles in to a movie and hand them to me in the dark theater. Or he&amp;#039;ll pack surprise lunch snacks for me, such as Greek yogurt with honey, which I adore. These small details make me feel like he really knows me and cares for me.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Whenever a new candy bar comes out, Alex always buys it for me \u2014 she knows I love being one of the first to try the newest one. She&amp;#039;ll place the bar on the kitchen counter and won&amp;#039;t say a word until I find it and get very excited.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Christopher and I write a loving note and leave it for the other person to find. For example, I wrote how thrilled I was to be pregnant and starting a family together and left it in his wallet. He replied on the same paper and left it in my jewelry box. We&amp;#039;re now on the fourth page of our &amp;#039;note trail.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Daisy Auger-Dom\u00EDnguez, 35 (pictured with her husband, Christopher, 34) New York City &amp;quot;Veronica leaves text messages on my phone letting me know she&amp;#039;s thinking of me. They&amp;#039;re usually something short and sweet, like &amp;#039;xo.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s not necessarily what she writes that makes it special; it&amp;#039;s that she found time in her crazy day to let me know that I&amp;#039;m on her mind.&amp;quot; Scott Hunzinger, 39 Cutchogue, NY &amp;quot;Melissa sends emails to me with &amp;#039;I LOVE YOU!&amp;#039; pasted in them about 1,000 times. She does this whenever I&amp;#039;m having a challenging day at work, and it absolutely turns my day around.&amp;quot; David Arnoff, 48 Washington, D.C. &amp;quot;When John leaves on a business trip, he puts Post-it notes all over the house with reminders such as &amp;#039;Te amo (I love you),&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Set the house alarm, I want you to be safe,&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Salt the driveway, I don&amp;#039;t want you to fall and hurt your cute booty!&amp;#039; They never fail to make me feel taken care of.&amp;quot; Vanessa Medina, 28 Schaumburg, IL SHE SAYS, HE SAYS Renee Miller, 46, and Gary Bettman, 45, Los Angeles &amp;quot;Whenever Gary travels on business, he sends me a postcard with a wonderful note on it. He&amp;#039;s been doing this for years, and it&amp;#039;s always a nice surprise because each postcard has a special meaning to me or our relationship. For example, he knows how much I still like The Wizard of Oz, so he&amp;#039;ll find an appropriate postcard featuring a scene from the movie.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;When I was working out of the country for a long period of time, Renee would fax letters to me, which would be slipped under the door of my hotel room overnight. I&amp;#039;d wake up the next morning and happily find her heartfelt messages waiting for me.&amp;quot; Little acts of love &amp;quot;My husband irons my clothes for me. He&amp;#039;ll either ask me what I need ironed or he&amp;#039;ll surprise me and press my skirts and blouses without even asking. It&amp;#039;s so nice and thoughtful, because ironing is my least favorite chore!&amp;quot; Michelle Lisko, 43 Stow, OH &amp;quot;Every night before bed my husband and I tell each other something we&amp;#039;re grateful for that the other person did that day. For example, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m grateful for the nice dinner you made,&amp;#039; or, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m grateful you gave the kids a bath.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s taught us to look for the positive attributes in each other. It&amp;#039;s also nice to be recognized for doing the laundry or cutting the grass!&amp;quot; Beth Remmes, 34 Atlanta &amp;quot;My wife and I have an ongoing thing about pulling the car into our driveway. She drives straight in and backs out, and I like to back in and drive straight out. On several occasions I&amp;#039;ve come out in the morning to find that Marina had backed the car in the night before, knowing that I&amp;#039;d be driving it next. That gesture shows me so clearly how much she respects and loves me.&amp;quot; Mike Howard, 41 Vancouver, BC &amp;quot;My husband makes banana pancakes for me every Sunday morning. This includes getting up before me, working in the kitchen while I&amp;#039;m still asleep, and cleaning up all the dishes. The pancakes are warming in the oven when I finally roll out of bed. It&amp;#039;s a great ritual because it gives us some quiet indulgent time together in our busy lives. It also makes me feel pampered and loved that David makes the pancakes from scratch when a typical weekday breakfast is frozen waffles or cold cereal!&amp;quot; Melissa Maslar Arnoff, 40 Washington, D.C. &amp;quot;My wife has made a game out of telling me she loves me whenever the mood strikes her. We&amp;#039;ll be in the supermarket and out of the blue, Alex will stop and turn to me and say, &amp;#039;I love you in the frozen foods section.&amp;#039; Or we can be at the movies and she&amp;#039;ll say, &amp;#039;I love you in the 21st row of the theater five minutes before the previews start.&amp;#039; Telling me she loves me in such unexpected ways shows me just how much I really mean to her.&amp;quot; Frederik Tylim, 31 Dallas &amp;quot;When I get home from playing basketball on Saturdays, Michelle always asks how the game went. I know she doesn&amp;#039;t really care how many points I scored, but when she shows interest and asks if I had fun or how&amp;#039;d it go, I see that she cares about me and that she&amp;#039;s my friend.&amp;quot; Bill Sitton, 38 Lenexa, KS &amp;quot;Every evening when I get home from work, I hear my wife shout to our boys that &amp;#039;Daddy&amp;#039;s ho-o-o-o-o-o-o-me!&amp;#039; Within seconds, they come running full of smiles and tackle me. It makes me feel loved and appreciated the moment I walk in the door.&amp;quot; Michael Law, 44 Raleigh, NC &amp;quot;Michelle always holds my hand when we drive somewhere. We&amp;#039;ll be talking or listening to music and suddenly she&amp;#039;ll just reach for my hand. I find it incredibly sweet and endearing.&amp;quot; Dave Lisko, 44 Stow, OH SHE SAYS, HE SAYS Angela Moore, 40, and Larry Moore, 40, Redondo Beach, CA &amp;quot;Larry wakes up before me in the morning and gets dressed in the other room so I can sleep undisturbed. He also refills the Q-tip holder in our bathroom \u2014 I love that.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Angela makes sure my toiletries are stocked up. Because of her, I&amp;#039;m never without important things like toothpaste, deodorant, and body lotion. The way she anticipates my needs and does something about them reminds me that I&amp;#039;m loved.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Scott brings me flowers and trimmings from blossoming trees or bushes in our yard. He puts them in a vase that we received for our wedding and then places the arrangement on our fireplace mantel. My friends are so envious \u2014 no other man I know does this kind of thing, and so often. It&amp;#039;s one of the ways Scott shows me that he doesn&amp;#039;t take me or our relationship for granted.&amp;quot; Veronica Hunzinger, 38 (pictured with her husband, Scott, 37) Cutchogue, NY &amp;quot;We live near beautiful parks, but some of the hiking trails are difficult for our two small boys to navigate. To make things easier, Michael will take us on a nature walk that he&amp;#039;s already scoped out. It&amp;#039;ll be a lovely little trail that&amp;#039;s easy for all of us to manage. The extra effort he takes to find these trails means we can share new adventures together and have fun as a young family.&amp;quot; Kile Law, 42 Raleigh, NC &amp;quot;Every Mother&amp;#039;s Day, Frank buys flowers and plants them in the yard for me. It&amp;#039;s always a surprise, especially one year when he came home with hydrangeas \u2014 my favorite flower.&amp;quot; Beth Remmes, 34 Atlanta &amp;quot;Eric knows how much I love animals, so if he&amp;#039;s on the road and sees an animal that&amp;#039;s been hit by a car, he&amp;#039;ll call me at home to tell me to drive a different route. This way, I won&amp;#039;t see the animal and get upset. He&amp;#039;ll also call me if he sees baby animals on his way to work so I can be sure to take that same route and hopefully see them too.&amp;quot; Lara Kretler, 37 Columbus, OH "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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