The Little Things I've Done For Her Series (Part 1)

Most men will never have to come face to face with a life or death situation to prove their feelings for a woman, and yet, anytime I am with a woman I am very aware it can happen at a moment’s notice. In the back of my mind I know I’m only half boyfriend, the other half of me is bodyguard or protector. Jump in front of a bullet aimed at her? I better do it. Push her out of the way of an oncoming car even if it means I’ll get hit by said car? I better do it.  Change the tire if it goes flat? I better do it.

But what if we’re not tested like that? What if we never get confronted with a life or death circumstance to prove our love. What does a man do?

Well, it’s simple. He does the little things.

These little things are sometimes nothing to write home about. Maybe we pick up her favorite snack while we make a quick store run. Maybe we rub her back without her asking. Or maybe we send her a quick text to say that we’re thinking about her.

All of this sounds sweet and easy enough because they basically are both of those things. But sometimes, the little things are the hardest things in the world to do. Sometimes the little things break our pockets because the “little thing” is a diamond ring. Sometimes, in a man’s mind, the little thing he did for his woman is something he has never done for any woman prior to her and since her.

In my years of dating, I have done my fair share of little things and I’m not talking about flowers. I’m talking about the type of little things that from the outside looking in, don’t look like much, but trust me, they are. There have been some little things I have done that have stayed with me longer than some big things I’ve done.

I regret none of them. Every time I look back on some little thing I did I laugh and  say to myself, Damn, Jozen, you must’ve loved that woman or maybe liked her a lot. Who knows? What I do know is there have been some girls I really liked (or loved), who asked me to do this little thing, and I did it even though in my mind, it was the biggest thing in the world.

Here’s one of them.