On your lovely 35th birthday, still in the spirit of doing things Iโve never done before, I am writing you this love note to highlight 35 things I love about you.
Grab a coffee (that fancy one you like), sit back (Iโm guessing youโre doing this already), enjoy!
1.ย ย I love that you put me first, always and seek my opinion on important things.
2.ย ย I love that you constantly encourage and teach me how to be a better version of myself. You make me feel strong, like I can do anything I put my mind to.
3.ย ย I love that youโre the most optimistic person I know. No matter how dire a situation is, youโre always optimistic that something good will come out of it.
4.ย ย I love that you cuddle and watch KUWTK (and all my fave cartoons and soppy romantic movies on Netflix) with me. I know you think they are not your thing but we both know you secretly love them as much as I do.
5.ย ย I love your love for travel and how weโve made it our thing. Thatโs one of my favourite things to do with you.
6.ย ย I love that your face lights up when you see a beautiful sunset or during beautiful moments like NYE fireworks display or coming face to face with something youโve looked forward to. Your face is so beautiful, my love.
7.ย ย I love that you are so ambitious. You want something, you plan how to go for it, you get it, smash it and then, it is unto the next.
8.ย ย I love that you accepted me into your bubble of happiness and it is now our bubble. We share this bubble that I feel canโt burst or be penetrated. It is so magical!
9.ย ย I love that you are always pushing causes for women. Your feminism is inspiring and if more men were like you on that topic, this world would be a safer and better space for women.
10.ย ย I love that you encourage my ideas. You never feel threatened by my success or dim my achievements, you are my no 1 cheerleader, supporter, and youโre constantly celebrating me.
11.ย ย I love that you are very passionate about Arsenal and Arsene Wenger. I mean, they keep breaking our hearts but you are the most loyal and passionate supporter I know. Yes, you are very loyal.
12.ย ย I love how you love my family so much. You have basically stepped into big brother and father role to my little brother and that boy worships the ground you walk on. The love you showed my mummy as well, sending her fruit baskets on motherโs day without my knowledge and all your cute convos and pictures with her. Even planning all the arrangements with the funeral director, coroner and registrar when I just couldnโt stop crying or articulate my words properly. I would never understand how I got so blessed.
13.ย ย I love that you love God.
14.ย ย I love your smell. The fresh, the back-from-gym-stink, all of them, I love!
15.ย ย I love your sexy bum. Fave thing I love about your gorgeous body.
16.ย ย Oh now we are talking bums, I love you in a suit or in sweat pants or in swim shorts. I got me a man who looks good in any and everything.
17.ย ย I love that you check up on me every day at work.
18.ย ย I love that you are so intelligent. Legit the smartest man I know. You didnโt get that Distinction in uni by fluke!
19.ย ย I love that you give everything at your job. There is no chance for mediocrity with you; always excellence.
20.ย ย I love that even when we have an argument and we donโt like each other very much in that moment, we never stop loving each other and I know that we will always find a way back into our bubble.
21.ย ย I love that you sparked my love for classical music and introduced me to Andrea Bocelli and now, heโs our happy music.
22.ย ย I love that you love watching theatre productions with me and that our fave movie is Les Miserables and that no matter how many times weโve seen it, youโll always see it with me.
23.ย ย I love that you never take away from where you come from. You are a proud black and Igbo man; itโs so sexy to me.
24.ย ย I love that you are a daddyโs boy. The way your face lights up when you call him to update him on your recent achievement and itโs cute that you still want him to be proud of you even at your big age looool
25.ย ย I love that you will eat anything. I mean, ANYTHING haha
26.ย ย I love that you take care of your material things and know the value of money spent on them. Your one million pairs of white sneakers, your car and your designer items, I love how youโre so meticulous about cleaning and storing them.
27.ย ย I love that you are close to your siblings and chat with them all the time. You are such a family man and I love it.
28.ย ย I love that you 100% respect me, my opinions and choices.
29.ย ย I love that you are a responsible man. You know your integrity and will never compromise. You are a great person.
30.ย ย I love that you went all in with me. You gave our relationship a chance even when we were uncertain of the future; you knew what you wanted and always went for it (aka me. LMAO) โ tbh the best decision youโve ever made right?!
31.ย ย I love that I know your heart. It is never a guessing game with you. I know where I am with you at all times and it feels secure.
32.ย ย I love the way you love me. No halves, you are all in and our intimate moments will always be a major part of our happy times.
33.ย ย I love that you are so strong for me. Iโm such an emotional mess whenever life tests us and you are always there holding on, standing in the gap and asking the right questions (while Iโm somewhere crying smh). This is me saying thank you most especially for the last 4 months.
34.ย ย I love that you married me you know?! Like you actually thought โwow this babe is actually a peng tingโ and married me. I rate you for marrying a 10/10 tbh!
35.ย ย Lastly, I love that you are growing more beautiful and even sexier every day. Itโs refreshing that Iโll always fancy the pants off you!
I got to number 35 and realised that there are still a lot more things I love about you but these will do for now. Happy 35th my love, Iโll always be your no 1 fan, cheer leader, shag and whatever else you want me to be. Today gets even better in a few hours.
So I came across your birthday thread on Twitter and I read this blog post and ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
The thing I find most beautiful about this is (and apologies if it sounds strange) but I just broke up with someone I really loved and I was feeling kind of hopeless. I used to write poems and letters and stuff and I was made to feel really strange about it and that I was being too โintenseโ by expressing my love this way. I saw this and it filled me with such joy because I can just feel how pure and honest your love is and seeing it shared like this, in such a genuine way just lit me up and made me feel really happy. I know that there is someone for me who would appreciate me planning a whole host of birthday surprises (I really do things like you did and go all out for the person I love) and wouldnโt use that as a reason to put me down (yes, it is possible).
Anyway sorry for rambling, I just want to share my congratulations both to your husband on his birthday, and to you for being so bold in showing your love and sharing it with the world. It really made me smile to see this โค๏ธ
oh gosh Blessing I am so sorry!
(apologies for my delay in responding)
Pls don’t apologise, my wish has always been for my blog to be a space where women are free to share as much as they are comfortable to. I love poems and letters – I still write those too hehe. You are not intense and you are not too much. Your person will find you and suddenly, it will all makes sense. Just don’t change who you really are or try to water yourself down to please anyone!
I wish you the best darling and I’m glad I made you smile x
Waoh!!! The kinda things I want to be reading. Thank you for sharing with us. That blissful relationships like these exists. Better years ahead for you two.
This is such a sweet and beautiful tribute!
I love love love it!
In this time and age where it seems like good, secure and well rounded men are hard to come by, it is so heartwarming and refreshing to read this!
Happy birthday to your husband!
Wishing him many more years and wishing you both a lifetime of bliss and never-ending unfolding layers of sweetness and pure magic!
aww Thank you for your lovely comment Ogechi. So lovely of you to write such a heartfelt note.
Now, I’m by no means a relationship adviser (ha!) but I just think that what works (for me at least) was putting all my cards on the table from day 1 and him doing the same; as the years have gone by, we have grown together making sure not to leave the other person behind. We are very intentional about our relationship and communicate quite well.
Thank you again and I wish you your own magic as well x
The two of you and your relationship and the genuine honesty of your relationship is one of the biggest reasons for my continued faith in love, loving and being loved. Great post!!
sis!!!! awwww LOVE YOU SIS!!
Of course you have to have faith in love, loving and being loved. Can’t be my sister and think otherwise hahaha I will always bring you back to it x
I love love! I got quite emotional reading this.. May God grant me a good man to share all of this and more.
And may God continue to uphold your union.. Hugs
Beautifully written, happy birthday to your husband. You are very intentional with your live and with celebrating him. May you always have your โbubble โ and each other as a safe place, a place of encouragement. May the life youโve chosen to build together continue to be beautiful. Itโs your birthday too so happy bday !!!
Such a beautiful read!!! Happy birthday to the love of your life Somto! May he keep making you happy and you doing the same for him! Love you both ๐
Happy Birthday to Mr E, wishing him many more years in good health ๐๐ฟ. Your union is blessed, true love ๐ and I admire your love ๐ฅฐ. Having a man that loves you and your family is Amazing ๐. Now you have mentioned it I will check out the bum when I see mr E ๐
This Has To Be The Most Beautiful Piece EVER! I Am Literally Crying…. I Donโt Know Either Of You Personally But I AM VERYYYYYY HAPPY! I Am Always Happy About Love! ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ Nothing Is More Beautiful Than Loving And Being Genuinely Loved In Return๐ญ. Itโs A RARE Thing These Days! Always So So Glad To Read And Feel Something So Genuine As I Feel Right Now. Love Your Key Points๐ญ๐ญ.
This Is. An Assurance (For Me) That I Will Also Be Lucky When I Am Married In Jesus Name!! Amennnnnn ๐๐ฝ
Happy Birthday To Your Hubby๐๐. Wish You Both All The Happiness In The Entire World๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐. Enjoy Your Beautiful Day… Mr And MrsE๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
awwww thank you for reading and for taking the time to leave this lovely, detailed comment.
you don’t even have to be lucky, just have to be very intentional from the time you meet and continue being that way throughout x
I GO LOVE O!! Man, Bugo I love how you love out loud, Iโm not good at it at all and itโs always been one of my favourite things about you. This is so beautiful and Somto is a very very lucky man.
But he is amazing and we love him and even though I canโt be there for you all the time because of distance, Iโm always secure that youโre good because heโs there with you.
Now I feel like crying. Yuck. Have to go watch love and hip hop and get some of my agbero back.
awwww my Daks! so funny how you’ve seen us grow up from day 1 looool. gosh been a long journey sha!
He is indeed very blessed haha ok I am blessed to have him too.
PS – don’t run away from the mush, LHH won’t save you LMAOOOOOO
x
I’m still trying to catch up on your blog as I am only just getting back to my routine. This is my 1st read in a while and it is beautiful. God bless your loving and amazing supporting guy. Cheers to the next 35years and to reading 70 things you love about Somto ๐
OMG! This is so sweet โค๏ธ Iโve been looking for the things to do on my fiancรฉs 35th birthday and I saw this ๐โค๏ธ This is such a pure love! Hope you both have a happy life with each other and stay in love ๐ฅฐโบ๏ธ Now Iโm a fan of yours.
60 Comments
Teemah
Oh my God this is one of the most beautiful thing Iโve read in a while….happy Birthday Me E
Bugo
Thank you so much Teemah x
Blessing Mukosha Park
So I came across your birthday thread on Twitter and I read this blog post and ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
The thing I find most beautiful about this is (and apologies if it sounds strange) but I just broke up with someone I really loved and I was feeling kind of hopeless. I used to write poems and letters and stuff and I was made to feel really strange about it and that I was being too โintenseโ by expressing my love this way. I saw this and it filled me with such joy because I can just feel how pure and honest your love is and seeing it shared like this, in such a genuine way just lit me up and made me feel really happy. I know that there is someone for me who would appreciate me planning a whole host of birthday surprises (I really do things like you did and go all out for the person I love) and wouldnโt use that as a reason to put me down (yes, it is possible).
Anyway sorry for rambling, I just want to share my congratulations both to your husband on his birthday, and to you for being so bold in showing your love and sharing it with the world. It really made me smile to see this โค๏ธ
Bugo
oh gosh Blessing I am so sorry!
(apologies for my delay in responding)
Pls don’t apologise, my wish has always been for my blog to be a space where women are free to share as much as they are comfortable to. I love poems and letters – I still write those too hehe. You are not intense and you are not too much. Your person will find you and suddenly, it will all makes sense. Just don’t change who you really are or try to water yourself down to please anyone!
I wish you the best darling and I’m glad I made you smile x
Ayomikun
Waoh!!! The kinda things I want to be reading. Thank you for sharing with us. That blissful relationships like these exists. Better years ahead for you two.
Bugo
aww Ayomikun, bless you!
Amen x
Pamilerin Jacob
This is the best thing I have read this year, the cutest too. I wish you two, unending bliss. ๐น
Bugo
Thank you Pamilerin, I appreciate your lovely comment. Amen x
Emmanuella Emeruwah
This is so cute๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ, Fairytale Love do exists. Still leaving my hopes high. Happy Birthday to Him. God Bless you
Bugo
Thank you so much!
God bless you too x
Emeka
Such a beautiful read. I just love your love… โค๏ธ
Bugo
haha! Thank you for reading x
Ogechi Nwobia
This is such a sweet and beautiful tribute!
I love love love it!
In this time and age where it seems like good, secure and well rounded men are hard to come by, it is so heartwarming and refreshing to read this!
Happy birthday to your husband!
Wishing him many more years and wishing you both a lifetime of bliss and never-ending unfolding layers of sweetness and pure magic!
Bugo
aww Thank you for your lovely comment Ogechi. So lovely of you to write such a heartfelt note.
Now, I’m by no means a relationship adviser (ha!) but I just think that what works (for me at least) was putting all my cards on the table from day 1 and him doing the same; as the years have gone by, we have grown together making sure not to leave the other person behind. We are very intentional about our relationship and communicate quite well.
Thank you again and I wish you your own magic as well x
Uzoamaka
The two of you and your relationship and the genuine honesty of your relationship is one of the biggest reasons for my continued faith in love, loving and being loved. Great post!!
Bugo
sis!!!! awwww LOVE YOU SIS!!
Of course you have to have faith in love, loving and being loved. Can’t be my sister and think otherwise hahaha I will always bring you back to it x
Adesola
I love love! I got quite emotional reading this.. May God grant me a good man to share all of this and more.
And may God continue to uphold your union.. Hugs
Bugo
awww bless you!
Amen ๐ x
Mumtaan
Happy Birthday To Your Mr E! . God bless & keep your love. This was quite a beautiful read.
Bugo
Thank you for reading and for your lovely comment x
Henrietta
Happy birthday Somto.. thank you for putting a smile on Bugoโs face . Many more blessed years to both of you .โค๏ธ
Bugo
Thank you so much Henrie, i really appreciate it x
Nwady
You just made me speechless! Happy Birthday Somto!
Bugo
hehehehehe
thank you sissie x
Anonymous
Lord bless and keep this couple. Let their love grow strong and may they always always have cause to smile.
Bugo
Amen; thank you for this lovely comment x
Onyeka
Bugo this is so beautiful!! Happy birthday to Mr E! Thanks for being Mrs Eโs cameraman and give us bomb pictures ๐
Bugo
hey my darling, thank you! he’s really the best cameraman lol xx
Dee
Beautifully written, happy birthday to your husband. You are very intentional with your live and with celebrating him. May you always have your โbubble โ and each other as a safe place, a place of encouragement. May the life youโve chosen to build together continue to be beautiful. Itโs your birthday too so happy bday !!!
Bugo
Thank you very much Dee!
Amen and Amen x
Nneka Obi
This post is everything! โค๏ธ
Love is sooo beautiful!
Happy birthday Somto!
King Kc
This is beautiful Bugo. Many more happy birthdays and happy times shared together. keep bubbling in that bubble.
Bugo
thank you KC!! I’m glad you stopped by ๐ x
A
This is sooo lovely!! In a world where we only amplify the negatives, itโs refreshing to see love in this light. โค๏ธ
Bugo
Thank you so much A!
I’m glad you stopped by x
Bugo
thank you so much sissie x
Dooshima
I rate you 10/10 for marrying me ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ Happy 35th to Bugos Mr. E!! Thankyou for holding her down!!!
Bugo
you knowwwww, have to be honest loooool
x
Mielle
Such a beautiful read!!! Happy birthday to the love of your life Somto! May he keep making you happy and you doing the same for him! Love you both ๐
Bugo
thank you so much sis. kissessssssss!
Nkechi
Happy Birthday to Mr E, wishing him many more years in good health ๐๐ฟ. Your union is blessed, true love ๐ and I admire your love ๐ฅฐ. Having a man that loves you and your family is Amazing ๐. Now you have mentioned it I will check out the bum when I see mr E ๐
Tosin
I so love this made me cry a bit.
I believe in love alot and wish you guys a happy life ahead always.HBD TO YOUR HUBBY.
Bugo
aww don’t cry! Thank you so much for reading and for your lovely comment x
Bugo
hahahahhahaha
thank you so much x
Abby
This Has To Be The Most Beautiful Piece EVER! I Am Literally Crying…. I Donโt Know Either Of You Personally But I AM VERYYYYYY HAPPY! I Am Always Happy About Love! ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ Nothing Is More Beautiful Than Loving And Being Genuinely Loved In Return๐ญ. Itโs A RARE Thing These Days! Always So So Glad To Read And Feel Something So Genuine As I Feel Right Now. Love Your Key Points๐ญ๐ญ.
This Is. An Assurance (For Me) That I Will Also Be Lucky When I Am Married In Jesus Name!! Amennnnnn ๐๐ฝ
Happy Birthday To Your Hubby๐๐. Wish You Both All The Happiness In The Entire World๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐. Enjoy Your Beautiful Day… Mr And MrsE๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
Bugo
awwww thank you for reading and for taking the time to leave this lovely, detailed comment.
you don’t even have to be lucky, just have to be very intentional from the time you meet and continue being that way throughout x
Adaku
I GO LOVE O!! Man, Bugo I love how you love out loud, Iโm not good at it at all and itโs always been one of my favourite things about you. This is so beautiful and Somto is a very very lucky man.
But he is amazing and we love him and even though I canโt be there for you all the time because of distance, Iโm always secure that youโre good because heโs there with you.
Now I feel like crying. Yuck. Have to go watch love and hip hop and get some of my agbero back.
Bugo
awwww my Daks! so funny how you’ve seen us grow up from day 1 looool. gosh been a long journey sha!
He is indeed very blessed haha ok I am blessed to have him too.
PS – don’t run away from the mush, LHH won’t save you LMAOOOOOO
x
Tife
My fave post of yours to date! I read this with a huge grin on my face, this is true love and its refreshing to see in the 21st century!
Thanks for being an inspiration – happy birthday Mr. E! We love a strong, secure black man – thanks for being all that you are to Mrs E.
Bugo
your fave for real for real?
ahhh i’m glad! Thank you so much ma belle and yes to strong secure black men!
x
Yej
This was such a beautiful read Bugo; all in the feels, love love it โค๏ธ
Thank you!
Happy birthday to Mr. E, wishing you both all the fancier things of life โบ๏ธ
Rumz
I’m still trying to catch up on your blog as I am only just getting back to my routine. This is my 1st read in a while and it is beautiful. God bless your loving and amazing supporting guy. Cheers to the next 35years and to reading 70 things you love about Somto ๐
Bugo
hey Rumz thank you so much babe.
I hope you’re all caught up now x
Lou
OMG! This is so sweet โค๏ธ Iโve been looking for the things to do on my fiancรฉs 35th birthday and I saw this ๐โค๏ธ This is such a pure love! Hope you both have a happy life with each other and stay in love ๐ฅฐโบ๏ธ Now Iโm a fan of yours.
Bugo
thank you so much my lovely! Hopefully this gives you some ideas :)x
Bugo
thank you so much my darling!
x
Ogo E
Awww you guys ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Bugo
hey hey sissie x
Sandra
This is so cute sis, happy birthday cuzโค
Bugo
thank you so much darling x