Believe it or not, some times all it takes to melt a man’s heart is to compliment him on his appearance, or write him short, sweet notes.
In this article, 30 men share the one thing women can do to melt their heart. [Source can be found at the end of the article]
1. Initiating things
Treat me like I’m worth something.
I’ve dated so many girls who offered me the privilege of a date. I got to pay for dinner. I got to pay for a movie. I had to plan everything and make sure it was fun and thrilling. This was expected of me. If I failed in these areas, I didn’t get to see her again.
Later in the relationship, I get to hang out with her. I got to hug her. I got to kiss her. But she would never initiate. I had to be bold and daring and know when the moment was right. If I made a misstep, I was a creep. How dare I?
If you want to melt my heart, take me out. Buy me dinner. Plan a date that a guy would like. Risk a first kiss. Discuss things with me. Initiate sex sometimes instead of just dropping hints that it’s ok to do it right now. Make me feel like I’m a partner and not a prop.
Frapplo
2. So sweet!
For me it was when my girlfriend would hug me from behind while I was working on something or just got home, always made me turn around and kiss her.
omniglare
3. A pure, innocent act of selflessness
My significant other is not from around here, and she’s more used to ethnic food. She knows I like western food a lot, so she made me a fruit salad for desert. With ranch sauce. It was the most adorable thing I have ever seen.
Nullrasa
4. The heart melting kiss
In my last relationship, sometimes I’d kiss her and she’d smile halfway through the kiss. The thought that my kiss made her so happy she’d unconsciously smile always melted my heart.
IndeterminantEngr
5. A meaningful gesture
Had this happen to me recently, sadly didn’t work out.
I bought her a drink. She said thank you genuinely. 20 minutes later she came up to me and bought me one AND had remembered what I ordered.
I said thanks. She said, you looked like you needed a beverage you enjoy.
Ladies, that is WIFE material.
the__itis
6. For the love of chicken wings!
I remember my wife and I were at Costco. They were sampling chicken wings. My wife doesn’t like chicken wings so I was surprised when she walked over to the station with me. I got my chicken wing and she got one and said I know you love wings, here” and gave me an extra wing. What an amazing woman I married.
slowsuby
7. Cute notes!
My girlfriend wrote a bunch of notes and hid them around my room. They’re all really short like 1 sentence, but they say things like “have a nice day” or “you should smile all the time because I love your smile.” I keep them all in my nightstand and reread them every so often.
trumpetguyy13
8. An affectionate embrace
My girlfriend likes to be the big spoon when we cuddle at night. I’m 6’1″ and she’s 5’5″. Maybe I’m weird, but that always makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
banditcleaner
9. Small, romantic gifts
Whenever my girlfriend asks me what I want for holidays, I always say, “just something sweet and meaningful” and she always delivers, and it melts my heart.
One birthday she make us a checklist of like 20 romantic things we can go do that year (picnics, kissing in the rain, etc.), and for another she went online and created a book that told the tale (with illustrations) of our early relationship when we met and fell in love.
Maybe I’m a big sap, but those kinds of things mean more to me than any large extravagant or expensive gift.
killadrix
10. Back of the head scratch
I was driving with a girl I just started hanging out with romantically a couple days ago and without saying anything she put her hand behind my head and just started scratching my head/rubbing the back of it/putting her fingers through my hair.
I’m a 6′ athletic 200 pound combat veteran and I almost squealed with delight. I tried to just maintain a little smile but I probably had the biggest grin on my face.
PickUp_PutDown
11. Small gestures
Slowly and gently run their nails along my arm. Especially on the palm side up. Then my arm veins really pop up which used to drive her nuts.
There were a few times where I was upset or heated about something, and she would do that and I’d immediately become calm.
Damn I miss her.
TheFedoraFerret
12. Thoughtful gifts
One time I came home from work to see that my girlfriend was cooking us some fajitas while wearing only an apron.
I’d walk through North Korea wearing only an American flag and holding signs that said “Screw You, North Korea” in Korean if that’s what it would take to hold onto that woman.
Zardif
13. Just show me that you care!
My wife adores pickles. They are, bar none, her favorite thing that she can put in her mouth. When she buys pickles, she buys two jars at a time so that there is never a possibility of running out. Running out of pickles is a major crisis.
Years ago when we had just started seeing each other, I was unaware of her fondness for dill pickles. Being the gentleman that I am, I’d made a couple of nice sandwiches for lunch. Being the jerk that I am, I also decided that I should pull a prank. I decided to steal the last slice of pickle from her plate.
“HEY, Whats that over there?” As I gesticulated wildly, and then YOINK! The pickle was in my mouth before she had a chance to react.
She was LIVID. Absolutely furious that I had eaten the last pickle in the house. Several weeks of daily reminders about the pickle escapade followed the incident. 13 years have since passed, and she still makes comments along the lines of, “Well at least you didn’t eat the last pickle. OH WAIT.”
The date is 9 years post pickle, lunch time. Imagine my wife enormously pregnant, ravenously hungry and hormonal. Imagine the powerful cravings she must have had for those delectable briny, sour cukes. I’d just made cheese, tomato and pickle sandwiches for lunch. As we sat together eating, I noticed that she was saving a slice of pickle on her plate. She finishes her sandwich, and then asks me if I would like her pickle. Suspecting a trap, I replied carefully “if you would like to share…”
With great care and aplomb, she lifted the pickle off of her plate and laid it next to my sandwich and uttered the words “I love you this much”.
That’s how she melts my heart.
manlymann
14. Not asking much here…
How about just not cheating on me? So far my search is not going well.
xilam
15. Just enjoy the moment together
That, sometimes, I don’t want to, nor do I care about taking an Instagram picture whenever we go somewhere. Why don’t we just enjoy the moment without having to get likes on a stupid app?
My last two girlfriends were obsessed with doing this and it drove me insane. How about we just take a picture of us FOR US, not for everyone else to superficially like.
JaDinklageMorgoone
16. Short and sweet compliment
I had just gone through a breakup and was spending irrational amounts of time at the gym. One of my close friends that is a girl said “I know you spend a lot of time at the gym and it’s really showing off you look great!” She wasn’t flirting with me or anything like that, just a genuinely nice compliment to validate all the hard work I had been putting in.
dankteinshakes
17. Having a hobby
I am finding in my advanced age (45) that what melts my heart is a girl who is actually interested in something. Some kind of hobby. Something she does for herself that isn’t related to eating or drinking or fitness or mothering kids or animals.
I know a girl who is into old cars. She has 2 muscle cars and goes to car shows. By herself. She listens to old records on her couch with the TV off. She enjoys talking about architecture and mid-century furniture. She loves craftsmanship in all forms.
We aren’t a couple and we aren’t going to be. But knowing her has helped me understand that someone with actual interests can really melt my heart… and that they are out there.
Last_Sundays_Bacon
18. Extreme excitement
Not to long ago, my girlfriend came home super excited (like she often is) about her research, and how she had a really awesome something happen with it (I think a paper got published) anyways, so I’m sitting there going through flash cards for school, she comes, sits on my lap, stares at me, kisses me, then continues blabbering on for like 20 minutes about how excited she was. I’ve seen 5 year olds less excited on Christmas morning. It was pretty cute.
ahappyishcow
19. The chocolate milk cups
In my shared apartment in undergrad, we would host a lot of people on weekends for drinking. Lots of people would make mixed drinks, and we often needed as many cups as possible. I had a few cups that I used to drink non-alcoholic beverages, and I didn’t particularly like when my cups were used for alcoholic drinks, because my chocolate milk, etc. would smell and taste slightly of alcohol for a while after that. But I didn’t wanna be “that guy” so I never said anything about it.
One time, a few of my buddies took out my cups to mix drinks in. Again I kept quiet, but a girl in our friend group saw and said “Hey, don’t use those! Those are [my name]s chocolate milk cups!”
Despite me never bringing the issue up to anyone, she knew me well enough to know that it bothered me, and spoke up on my behalf. It was such a small and mundane thing, but it was one of the sweetest and most meaningful gestures someone has ever made for me.
TimoKinderbaht
20. Slow down
I know this is a strange thing, but it feels like so many women have multiple kids, a job they are always at, or are constantly on the go doing whatever or dating whoever. It’s nice when a woman just slows down, stops worrying about everything, and just spends time with me.
Granted that is becoming harder and harder to find anymore.
Catatonick
21. Pretty much everything she does
My SO and I got into an argument about a month ago. After several minutes of silence from both parties, I noticed she had a devious look on her face, to which I looked back apathetically as to keep my bearing. Though I thought she would be deterred, she simply tackled me and began forcibly making out with me. I asked what she was doing and she said “I don’t wanna fight, it’s dumb.”
For whatever reason, I was immensely turned on and also moved by the way she responded to the situation. I think I just love that she cared more about us being happy and getting along than being right or winning an argument. I think that’s pretty great.
SGM-Heide
22. Showing interest
One time I was in the middle of playing a game on my computer, girlfriend at the time asked if I could teach her how to play, she’s never used a mouse and keyboard before to play a game. She comes over and sits on my lap and I guide her hands on what to do and how to play and stuff. She was actually really good and picked up on it fairly quickly. Nothing overly sensual or anything like that, it’s just she actually showed genuine interest in something I’m into and she wanted me to introduce her to it and share it with her. First time I ever had a moment like that and I was seriously glowing the rest of the day. Talking about it now even makes me smile.
PixelSpy
23. Be more adventurous
My significant other, every now and then, will do something that I’d never expect and I instantly love her times two and am so proud of her, big things like going for a higher position at work or rock climbing to small things. Like the time I dared her to eat a tiny marble sized lemon that we seen growing on a tree at a restaurant and she just picked it peeled it and started chewing. When ever a girl steps out of her comfort zone my heart melts.
jaxxie04
24. Showing genuine concern
A couple years ago, a friend of mine back home had a freak accident and passed away. I continued going to work that week since I couldn’t fly out until the weekend. One morning, my coworker just looks at me and asks “How are you doing?”
She and I had been friends already and always used to joke around, but her genuine concern really meant a lot to me during a time I was trying not to show grief.
OddEye
25. Thanking him without saying a word
When she puts her head on my shoulder or puts her hand on my chest. It’s like a quiet way of saying, “thank you for being here right now.
black_fire
26. Being caring
Do something for me because you care. Anything really because you wanted to make me happy, or if I was having a bad day and wanted to cheer me up. Just anything to remind me that you care about me. I have had a lot of relationships lately where they never gave that to me. Never really made me feel like they cared, that I mattered to them.
Lost_in_costco
27. Going out of her way to do small things
The one thing that melts my heart is when she does something like clean dust off my shoulders , or pulls a hair or something off my clothes.
Even something as silly as cleaning my glasses for me, cause she noticed a little dust on them.
If I havent asked her and she goes out her way to do these things anyway, it definitely gains her points.
mylifebelieveitornot
28. Beautiful
When I’m at a club, I always really appreciate when girls drunkenly pay me compliments, seeing as they’re strangers and have no incentives to – It’s usually stuff like “Oh I really like your hair” or something like that, but just last night, on my way out of the club, a girl stopped me and told me that I was beautiful.
Where I’m from, “beautiful” isn’t really a word that girls just throw around at guys. This was the first thing someone’s told me in a long time that’s really made me feel good about myself.
solomon_mushroom
29. Just a simple touch
On my 16th birthday I quit drinking cold turkey. It wasn’t easy, but I was determined. Anyway, I was sitting in the cafeteria at school one day, just trying to keep myself together, and a friend came and sat down beside me. She didn’t say anything, didn’t ask anything, just played with my hair for a few minutes. It was the first time I’d had human contact without a ton of stress behind it in months.
It was one of those moments that meant nothing to her, she was just being mildly flirtatious and forgot about it basically right away. To me, it may well have been the difference between graduating and moving on with my life’s goal, or dropping out and ending up a junky. Those few minutes not only melted my heart, but changed the course of my life.
We went our separate ways after high school, but we ended up at a few mutual friends house parties a year or so later. After that we started to hang out more and more. Long story short, we’ve been married for almost 13 years now.
totally_rocks
30. A memorable dance
The other night, actually. My (ex) girlfriend and I broke up a few months ago and I’ve been in kind of a rut. We were together for nearly three years, and even though we are in high school, that’s still quite a few memories. So Saturday was my senior prom, and I took this random girl from my grade. While at the dance, one of my friends comes up to me and says: “dude, there’s this girl that would love to dance with you, but she is extremely shy and is too terrified to ask.”
My immediate thought was, “well, I’d rather dance with someone I don’t know than stand awkwardly with someone I do,” so I said of course! He said okay I’m going to go get her.
Now, the jerk in me expected some sort of really awkward looking girl that no one would want to dance with. Let me tell you, I hate that part of me but everyone has thoughts like that some time. I could not be more wrong. My friend comes back with this drop dead gorgeous girl with the most nervous look on her face. But once we started dancing, her face lit up brighter than anyone I’ve ever seen. She was on cloud nine and was having the time of her life, and it was all because she got to dance with me!
I honestly think that smile was the first true genuine smile I’ve ever seen, and I really hope that I get to see one like it again. Due to circumstances, me and mystery beautiful girl cannot be together, considering I leave for summer camp and college in less than a month, but I know I’ll never forget that dance. I know I haven’t stopped thinking about it yet, and I needed that confidence boost.
Mattyb2851
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