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I took his sweatshirt, and I wear it when I talk on the phone with him, or when I am lonely and missing him.... cause when we were living in the same part of the continent, I would always steal his sweatshirts.
Only 15 days till I see him!
MrBee has some LDR experience ;) so I think he can empathize with us!
I have often wished for something of J's, but alas... so far we've nothing of the sort. I did, however, this past summer stumble upon a set of magnetic kissing keychains (a little boy and little girl), and sent him one. The other is on my keys. They're pretty unobtrusive, matte silver, so she doesn't stand out from or bog down my keys, but every time I pull them out to unlock a door, I think of him because of it. :)
We did this. When he left for basic training, I took a stuffed hippo and a blanket I had made him. They both smelled like him and it really helped me through those 2 long months when I couldn't even talk to him. Even now, I sleep with that hippo every night. I dont feel right laying down without it. I also have a couple pairs of his sweatpants that I wear all the time.
He has a few things of mine. I know he has a bottle of my perfume, I'm not sure what else though. lol.
We're a couple of big softies. :)
i've got a nice collection of random clothing articles from my guy. i only took one, the rest he has given me. at the rate, he's going to either have to move here or buy himself a whole new wardrobe!
he does have a shirt of mine that i stuck in a birthday gift i sent him. i'm thinking of sending him another one soon. maybe for christmas
His sweatshirt and sweatpants -I loved them - oh heck I still love them they are still on my side of the closet even though we have been living together for 4 years now and he "borrows" them every now and then!
I sent him my bright turquoise pillowcase when he was deployed. It's not like he can have regular clothes and stuff....but he got to have it every night =]
He left me a bunch of his stuff when he moved and got deployed (i had the house, it made sense to store it all here) like his St. Pats Sweatshirts from college (it's a big thing at my school and we wear the tackiest, ugliest, bright green non-hooded sweatshirts EVER and we love it lol) so sometimes i'd wear his fraternity one instead of my sorority one.
We always traded shirts to make the time in between visits easier. I enjoyed having a reminder of him nearby.
Not really, he once forgot his t-shirt from when he stayed and I used to smell it whenever I felt stressed...he took it back to wash it after a week.
I used to steal FI's shirts to sleep in. That way, I could at least smell him for a little while. Can't say I miss being LD. *sigh* I'm so glad he graduated HS when he did or I'd have gone nuts.
ETA-now that I think about it, he had a bottle of my perfume. lol. HE liked to smell it because it was my signature scent at the time.
Okay, so J and I don't have clothes of each others', but when my ex and I dated in college, I went to France for a semester and just before I left he took a (worn, but not like gross, dirty) shirt of mine and put it in a big ziploc bag, because that way it would smell like me longer. When he missed me he'd open it and smell it.
In retrospect, thats kind of weird. Then again, that ex was kind of weird.
When we did a long distance thing I always took one of his t-shirts. I could have probably achieved the same effect if I just bought Tide :)
But really, "smelling" him was nice sometimes. Weird, probably!
i borrowed a pair of basketball shorts I wore to bed every night. Maybe it sounds weird now that I say it, but they were his uniform at school (and he still wear them all the time!)
Smells are a really powerfull memory trigger! Everytime i see him I smell his face because it's so familiar and yummy!
Actually my fiance and I have a number of different thigs. Such as there was a blanket he bought for me that I kept with me when I traveled; it's small so I could carry it on a plane. I took it to Germany and Iraq. I took a shirt of his with me during some of military training because I knew I couldn't always bring the blanket. I've also left a thing or two of mine when I was gone on a longer trip.
I have a stuffed puppy he gave me that I sleep with every night. I also have one of his air force shirts that I wear as a night gown..though it no longer smells like him b/c I wash it. But, I guess it makes me think of him.
He always takes my letters I wrote him while he was in basic training with him so he can reread them. I also squirted perfume on a few so they smell like me. They are pretty worn now from him. I wrote him every.single.day in basic training (say what you want, but the other guys were jealous and he loved it)
I gave him a girl and boy monkey that are hugging that he takes and stashes away if he's allow to have it. He also has some pictures (take your mind out of the gutter ;)) that he keeps in his wallet so when he misses me he can pull it out. That's pretty worn too. He kept it in his breast pocket of his uniform for-ever..so it's been through a lot.
I don't know if FI has anything of mine but I have one of his sweatshirts here that I wear when I really miss him cause it smells like him. I make him wear it when he comes to visit to refresh the scent (wow that sounds weird). Also, things that he gave me trigger memories - a necklace he gave me when we started dating has a big pendant and when I wear it & fidget with the pendant I think of him (same with my e-ring now I suppose).
I had a pair of his basketball shorts I would wear to bed everynight.
And I admit to having a bottle of the cologne he wore so I could spray it on my pillow or something when I was missing him :p
My FI gave me an old baseball ring to keep. It was too big, so I wore it on my thumb when I missed him and had to close my fist tightly so as not to lose it.
I also finally asked him to get me a stuffed animal for Valentines Day as something I could cuddle with when we wasnt there.
I had a shirt of his that I slept in my entire senior year. Plus a bottle of his cologne that I wore more than perfume!
Well we live together, as in all his stuff is here, but he's often away on rotation for med school. I always like to wear his big comfy sweatshirts. And sometimes I grab his cologne bottle off the dresser and spray a little so I could smell him. Hehe- I know that stuff's not cheap but it makes me so happy to smell his scent!
I kept a fleece of his and his dog tags. He kept pictures of me. I really waned to take care of his cat while he was on deployment, but his grandma had been taking care of her and it was really her cat by then! I agree with the smell thing - I have a thing for the Head & Shoulders scent!
I have his fraternity sweatshirt... it's beloved & it was a big deal when he gave it to me to wear to bed!
Also, due to the liquid ban he bought a ton of toiletries & left cologne to keep at my house so he doesn't have to check a bag when he flies... so I sometimes use his body wash or spray his cologne on the sweatshirt so I can smell him. Yes, smell is an incredibly powerful tool. Whenever I hug him, I automatically smell him. lol he thinks its weird, but I'm just banking memories for when we're apart.
I'm currently in Japan and my FI is in the US in our apartment, so he is surrounded by my stuff wether he likes it or not! When I moved out here, I made sure to take a shirt of his that he wore to bed for a couple nights so it smells like him. I love it, sometimes its just calming and reassuring to fall asleep with his scent around, like I'm trying to fool my brain into thinking he might be here with me. I also have a stuffed manatee that he got for me a couple of years ago which has been one of my favorites, and it also just smells like home.
I stole a Thunderdome tshirt that is super worn out that I wore as pj's before I moved across the country. I also was given a build a bear GC as a gift for my birthday one year (from a younger sister) So he came with me to build the bear before I left the first time, and we still have it on our shelf now. It would spend time between both apartments when we were living across the country though. =)
i only get to see my FI on the weekends, so not a super LDR but i always steal a shirt that smells like him and sleep with it every night
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I was googling LDRs and found this piece of advice on Wikihow:
"Give them a personal object of yours so in a time of need, where they miss you, they are able to hold on to something that once belonged to you. This will provide comfort, happiness, and the thought of being with you."
That's pretty clever! I never thought of that... it would've been nice to have something of Bee's when we were dating long distance! So much of LDRs are virtual that having something physical to hold would have been a nice change of pace.
Did your SO leave something with you when they visited... or vice versa?