My boyfriend and I weren’t getting along. The fact that he lived thousands of miles away, was finally getting to me. I hated myself for being so upset and cranky all the time with him. In the past, our relationship was always full of love and he was always there to make me feel better.

Maybe I was getting so upset all of a sudden because I knew i would have to wait another year to see him. I started pushing him away and doing that only hurt him and I. I loved my boyfriend and I knew I did not want him out of my life, but i had no idea how to let this ache go.

One day, Jordan asked me whats wrong and I finally broke down and I told him the truth. I told him I needed some assurance. I needed to touch him so how, I needed to smell him somehow.

About a week later, I received a letter from fedex, stating I received a package that I needed to pick up. When I went and got the package, I discovered it was from my boyfriend. I opened it and I found a stuffed teddy, his hoodie which smelled like his cologne and a little gold heart shaped necklace. The note he wrote to me said “This is the best I can do for now You are my one and only - Jordan” I started crying and I instantly, I let the ache go.

Jennifer

So I had this hair clip. It was beautiful and I LOVED it! I could carry it around and put my hair up or take it down. But a few months ago it broke. And I’ve been trying to get another one. I didn’t find any that I liked. But after while I did. I found it on eBay and wanted it so bad, but I couldn’t get it cause I didn’t have the money. I showed it to Ben when he asked what I was looking at. Without telling, me he got it for me. He told me afterward, when I couldn’t argue about it with him, which I normally do when he buys me something. We had it sent to my address, but without telling he had the address changed to his. So when I went to visit him over spring break he surprised me with it. It is absolutely GORGEOUS! Lol. And It totally made my day!

Sunflower

I’ve been a bit down this week, as I usually am when I’m apart from him and I’m bored and on my own. It’s the first week of being apart from him; I always hate that first week. And normally seeing him on webcam or hearing him will cheer me up but it didn’t work yesterday because I was so down and he told me not to go out today (the next day) but wouldn’t tell me why. At about 4pm there was a knock on the door and a woman handed me 2 bags. Inside one was a long rose in a vase with a fern behind and in the other a teddy and a heart shaped box of chocolates! I know it sounds very Clique but I love things like that and no one has ever done something so special for me before!

Kat

Well, my name is Vanessa and my boyfriend is Sam. I’m from Colombia and he is from Denmark, we met during the summer in 2007 while we both attended a summer camp for exchange students. I was starting my year abroad and unfortunately he was done with his experience and finally going back home. We liked each other and we left campus after 15 days.

We have been dating 10 months now; we started talking in September after camp, and we started dating in February 08. Sam has visited me in Colombia 2 times now and I’m going to Denmark to spend Christmas together.

My story is that here in Colombia we have a special day for women, so that day females are surrounded by flowers and cute stuff from their partners. At my school there was a guy hitting on me, so he gave me 30 red roses (not my favorite flower) that day at school, with a note saying that each rose represented that he cares about me every day of the month. However I never payed attention to the guy, so I told Sam about the flowers.

He got really sad and freaked out since he didn’t know we had that tradition here in Colombia during the month of March. During Easter break, I went to my hometown to visit my mom, dad and brother….

When I got home my room was filled up completely with sunflowers (MY FAVORITE) and a teddy bear laying in the bed with a note.
He asked my mom to help him out and of course she did, so the note was written in her handwriting….

Sorry it’s not a Special day in Colombia, but to me is always special as long as you are letting me show you how much I love you and care about you. So, I got you 469 sunflowers. They mean how much I love you every day I spend without you. So here goes my math, but numbers are infinite, like my love for you,
-in 2007
120 (days since we left camp)
-in 2008
349 (days of the year taking off our plans for May and October)

P.S. if I come and surprise you before, then you OWE me sunflowers babe!!! :P:P

So yes, this was the cutest thing that anyone has done for me…. and so far, I owe him sunflowers hahah

Thanks,
P.S. Sometimes its hard, but just think about the moments you guys have been together, then everything is worth the fight against distance!

Vanessa

The week my boyfriend became my boyfriend, I fell in love with a wonderful talent that he has. He plays guitar and sings really well, and even writes his own music. He sang love songs to me and even wrote one just for me.

Well, now we don’t see each other very much, but he is still writing love songs. Just this week he called me and sang his most recent one to me over the phone. I would have much rather been able to be with him to hear it, but I couldn’t, and it was still so touching to me. Although I had the biggest smile on my face I’ve ever had, I couldn’t keep the tears from rolling down my cheeks.

For a 17 year old guy, he always amazes me with how sweet, thoughtful, and sensitive he can really be.

Anna

When my boyfriend was playing baseball on the other side of the country, he sent me a gift package for no reason at all! In the box was my favorite perfume and lotion, 2 huge bags of my favorite candy, and 2 of my favorite lip glosses. (He was on the phone with me as I was shopping and he heard me say how much I loved the Victoria Secret lip plumpers but they were too expensive so I didn’t buy them. Then he sent me two because he couldn’t decide on a color!) He also sent me a beautiful card with the box that ended with “You are the love of my life and I’m going to spend the rest of my life with you!” Aside of all of this, he also had a dozen roses delivered to my house from a local florist! After not seeing him for a while, this was so encouraging to know that he cared this much for me and that he put in all the time and effort to do this!

Brilane

I’m a starving college student and recently I ran out of money for food, something I had never thought possible. Without telling me he packed a box full of food and sent it to me with a small note that said: “for just pennies a day I can feed a college student!” Thanks to him (and of course my highly developed radar for free food around campus) I am eating well!

Jessica

One day my boyfriend sent me an email in it with a computer paint drawn heart in it, saying that he had given me his heart, I found this really amazingly sweet because it bears relevance to him because of his love of computers so everything has to be virtual. On my birthday he got his brother (his brother still lives near me because it was only my boyfriend who moved away to go to university) to put something in my locker for me to find. I found out that it was a hematite heart on a silver chain…with a letter saying that this was the more tangible version of his heart, saying that I should have that I had already stolen from him. It made me smile constantly for the rest of the day and it made up for him not being there cause I knew that I had his love around my neck.

Another thing that he is done, considering that my boyfriend is a student on a small budget, he downloaded my favorite film off the internet so that we could watch it together the first time I went to see him, it was so lovely, and I ended up being happy and surprised at the same time because he remembered the film.

Victoria

I’ve been dating my boyfriend for about 5 months. We’ve known each other and been good friends since kindergarten. George and I worked together for three years at Dairy Queen, and we graduated together a couple years ago. Right after high school George moved to Fort Benning, Georgia to be a Ranger in the Army. We didn’t talk for an entire year until he came back home to visit his family which only lives a couple houses away from mine. While he was home on leave we hung out every day and finally realized how much we liked each other. He was sent over to Iraq for four months a month after we became official. While he was gone, I had to move to a new town, start school, and find a job all on my own. I didn’t know anybody! I was so nervous to start my first day of college and to make matters worse George was still in Iraq and I hadn’t heard from him in a week! I usually got one 20 minute phone call and a few emails from him each week. After a successful first day of college, I got back to my apartment and started making myself a snack when there was a knock on the door. I opened it to find a man standing there with a large bouquet of flowers and a teddy bear attached. The man who delivered the flowers to me said he had specific instructions to wink at me, and say the flowers were from George! When I read the card attached to the bouquet it read, “To the most beautiful woman I know…from the luckiest guy around!” It was so sweet of him to do that! I don’t know how he remembered my new address and apartment number and how he found the time while in the middle of a war to do that for me!

Kelly

My best friend was known for getting people Build-a-Bears for special occasions, and I had helped her design them for people a few times. I had always wanted one, but I never got one. At some point, I had told my girlfriend, Cheryl, this, and a couple of times we had gone into the Build-a-Bear workshop together, but she could never find the right one for me. The day before we drove across the country to move me to grad school, I surprised Cheryl with a bear of her own — a black lab puppy actually. He is named “Chance,” and she loves him dearly. Helps her get through all those nights apart.

So she got a a bear from me, but she could never find the right one for me. As it turns out, she had previously had a Build-a-Bear that she had gotten in college as a gift for being in charge of the Habitat for Humanity group at her school — his name was Hugh. She had shown him to me before, but I had forgotten about him.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago when I traveled from Massachusetts to Las Vegas to visit her for the weekend. I had classes from about 9 AM and I had a 6 hour flight, and so it was about 3AM my time when I got there. When I met her in the terminal, she was holding a Build-a-Bear box. As sweet as that was it was not the sweetest part. Granted I was touched by the gesture as no one else –even my best friend– had ever given me one. I opened the box, and she asked me if I recognized the bear inside. I did not. I think this was mainly because I was exhausted from the long day and travel. She told me I would understand when I read the card inside.

As she drove us home from the airport, I read the card and got tears in my eyes.

It said:

“I may not be new but now I belong to you!
I was once loved very much but now she’s got a new pup.
Can you love me as much as she loves you?”

Not only had she given me my first Build-a-Bear, but she had given me hers, Hugh.

I have to admit that I haven’t had stuffed animals since I was a kid, but Hugh warms my night every night and reminds me so much of her.

Thad