25 Small Acts Of Love That Meant The World To Someone

Love isn’t always about grand gestures or poetic words—it’s often found in the smallest, most thoughtful actions. Someone on Reddit asked, “What action made you go, ‘Wow, this person really loves me’?” The responses poured in, painting a touching picture of love in its purest form. From simple acts of care to deep sacrifices, here are some of the most wholesome answers.

#1

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60M happily married for 30 years…there are so many but the biggest one. She comes back from a girls night out and proceeds to tell me all the S**T the other ladies say about their husbands. I say, “Geez, I wonder what you say about me?”.

She replies, ” I will never talk bad about you to others because it is you and me against the world”.

A friend of hers later confirmed that there was nothing they could do to get her to talk trash about me,….. even tho I know she could have

That was over 20 years ago and I still think of that often….and had no idea how safe and loved it would make me feel to this day.

#2

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Not a relationship but my group of friends. I had been in a bad relationship for a couple of years, she was very abusive. I finally cut it off and she lots her mind and got really physical. EVERY SINGLE one of my friends (6 guys) left work rented a moving truck, moved me out and let me crash on their couch while I figured things out. There was only love and support from them and I would not have made it without them.

When I tried to give them money or buy pizza as a thank you they told me that all they cared about was that I was safe now. I love all those guys like family.

#3

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The only person who reached out to wish me a happy “soberversary” besides my group chat (where one friend remembers and the rest likely jump on board) was my brother in law. I f*****g love him. He’s such a caring and special human.

This was year 7 and I moved into the house I closed on a week prior. This was a big one. I’ve gotten a masters, met my now wife, bought my car outright, moved across the country, rescued a dog and now closed on a house. The odds of achieving this “normal” life were damn near 0.

He’ll always reach out to tell me he’s proud of me and it’s just so appreciated. Thanks Phil.

#4

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My partner got viciously beaten by his father when he got outed, he was very visibly bruised, his face swollen. When I came to pick him up, I didn’t know his father had learnt of our relationship, so it took me a moment to understand what was happening, but my partner’s first instinct was to launch himself between me and his father, so that his father wouldn’t be able to hit me and would only be able to hit him. It’s been forty years, we’re still together.

#5

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Had a super early train ride at 6 am, when I got to the station I realized I forgot my anti depressants and knew I would be having withdrawals all Christmas without them, I called my roommate as a last ditch effort and asked if he could bring them to me at the train station, he literally got up at 5:40 am and brought them to me no questions asked

We’re still best friends even though we don’t live with one another.

#6

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Right after we started dating, she once called me from London after being away for weeks on a school trip. She spent what was at that time a fortune in long distance charges just to tell me she loved me, missed me, and wanted to hear me say I still loved her. Made my day.
She also told me once, “I would rather do nothing with you than something with someone else.”
We’ve been married for almost 42 years.

#7

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My mom doesn’t like touch, she doesn’t ever hug me voluntarily. Shes a good mom, I think she just has some trauma from childhood related to touch so shes never been physically affectionate to anyone. My dad however was super physically affectionate and hugged me all the time, so I got used to it from him. When he died unexpectedly two years ago, my mom and stepdad drove 16 hours to attend the funeral. I ran out of the funeral crying seeing my dad in the casket and my mom came after me, and stood next to me while I sobbed in a chair and held me the entire time I cried. I realized then that despite her lack of physical affection, that woman loves me with all her heart and was willing to put her comfortability aside to comfort me the way I needed.

#8

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I had a stroke in October.

I’m in Australia. My ex wife lives in China.

She was at my bedside in the hospital within 2 days.

#9

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I fell at work and broke 3 bones in my hand, hand to have surgery to repair them. A day or two after my surgery, my then girlfriend (now wife) went out to do our weekly shopping, and she came home with three new pairs of basketball shorts for me (since I had trouble putting on regular shorts at the time.)

I actually burst into tears when she gave them to me.

#10

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My dad donated one of his kidneys to me. I knew already that he loves me, but that was a good sign.

#11

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I had surgery and couldn’t really do anything on my own for the first week afterwards. As much as I hated the fact that my gf had to take care of me as if I was a small child, I realized that she must really love me if she’s willing to put up with this.

#12

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TW: Pretty Disgusting

I had this abscess on the side of my face around 2006 and I was on a waiting list to get it fixed. Needed an actual surgery with local to cut all the bad stuff out.

It used to build up and burst and get puss everywhere. I would wake up with it on my pillow.

Not only did she not leave me, she would help me clean it out sometimes.

Not exactly romantic but you know someone loves you when they stick with you through something like that.

#13

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When my sister beat the hell out of a guy that was bullying me,not lying either,she’s pretty big at 5,8 150lb(or more)and has done mma for a few years with a black belt in bjj.

she put him into a fireman’s carry and slammed him down hard as f**k before knocking him out with three punches.

#14

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My cat a lot of times she’ll lay on me and just refuse to get up when I first got her I got her a cat bed but she never used it she’d rather lay on me.

#15

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My wife, before we got married flew half way around the world with my daughter to make sure I didn’t spend my birthday alone.

#16

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I found out my husband had been removing the hair from our shower drain for years without saying a word.

#17

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When she left a friend group with me. The group was her friend group originally and I had joined later. some dude in the group crossed a boundary with me involving some personal documents, and everyone else defended him but her. Even my two childhood best friends weren’t there for me and she was? We had just been talking for a couple of months too, but man, this woman loved me, enough to leave with me cause she just knew, I’m better than that lot.

#18

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When we were first dating, she found out that I didn’t have a bedspread/comforter, so a few days later she gave me one, that she sewed herself. On our second date, she gave me a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop (coprolite, she was a rock collector). On our honeymoon, she surprised me with a side trip where I got to drive a tank (at one of those adventure type parks).

#19

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My niece probably, I’ve no kids or wife (Should really get around to it), but generally im that favorite uncle type. We are not actually related biologically, but I’ve been in her life since day 1. She’ll randomly text me just to ask how I am and say she loves me. Always at the right time, too, on s**t days or mornings, birthdays, Xmas, I’ll always hear from her. I’ve a lot of close friends who do the same or similar tbh, now that I think of it. That was just first to come to mind.

#20

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We woke up around noon at her place on a Saturday and she said, “Let’s just order pizza and stay in bed all day.” I knew right then.

#21

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Married 32 years. My wife and I were “dating” for only a couple of months. I asked her if she would move out of state with me. She said she would, if we got married. We had never discussed marriage before. She left her recently widowed mother behind and moved with me 800 miles to basically a foreign country, from the Midwest to the deep south. She quit a job she loved to be unemployed, at least for a little while. The incredible leap of faith she took could only mean she loved me.

#22

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My mom was dying in the hospital and my girlfriend at the time was very supportive, she cried for me and then one night she flashed her breasts at me and it made me laugh and lifted me out of my grief for a moment.

#23

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With my wife, there are too many to count. I only have to go into the office a few times a month and wfh the rest, but she has been writing notes about how much she loves me and how I’m the best and putting them by the coffee pot on the mornings I go in.

#24

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My current gf isnt charging me rent and instead is quite content to help me look while I take on more of the domestic duties as well as the handyman stuff I already do.

She is my rock and Im so f*****g grateful to her, for her, of her.

She literally met me at my lowest and still saw something.

#25

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Accepted me as I am after I came out as transgender.