Valentine's day.
My partner has major issues expressing his feelings verbally, he does it through actions and gift-giving (he can spend months planning the perfect gift and the perfect delivery)
So, when I moved in, in the beginning he would get back home from work early to set up the living room with flowers, gifts, apéritif, candles... The first time he set up something like that and I got back home from work, I opened the door and thought the house was on fire
He would never be at home when I arrived. Too embarrassing for him to be caught doing that
So I would wait for him to come back, behaving as if nothing happened
It's been over three years and it's gotten better
He started retreating upstairs when I got home, instead of point blank disappearing
Today, I knew he was going to set up something, so I went out for grocery shopping
Came back and he had locked me outside (I was prepared, he does it so that he can open the door for me), but he didn't run away!
I call that progress
