What is the ultimate love sacrifice you have made for your hubby, wife or partner?

Within my short relationship i’ve made a lot of small, almost daily sacrifices for my partner, although we’re in the first throws of love and still young I think the many small sacrifices I have made for him are a telling sign of the bigger, more consequential sacrifices I’d be willing to make. To be honest that scares me.

We’re not having children. This was not my choice nor my desire. My husband lives in a state of semi-constant worry, especially about money. He says that he would spend even more time feeling pressured to provide a decent lifestyle if we had children. It’s upsetting because right now, he could be out of work for a year before we would have to worry. And I also think we would be great parents. But, I refuse to “accidentally” get pregnant (which some people suggested) because to me, that’s lying.

Since my decision was stay with him and not have kids, I feel like I made a pretty big sacrifice. The idea of being without him just wasn’t something I could do.

tedibear, great answer and great story. true love from one person to another, sometimes makes us make sacrificing decisions. this is you.

i moved 1600 miles away from all my family and friends and my job to be with him. i tried to pretend that i moved here for the “hiking, biking, beautiful scenery, and awesome town”, but what it comes down to was him, really. and i had only seen him once. and it was off a craigslist rideshare. but i just knew he was the one. i have never trusted my gut so much. im so glad i did.

I accepted his proposal.

Sacrifices I have made for my husband: I moved 1000 miles to be with him and we never met face-to-face (we had only talked online and over the phone).
Another time when the police were looking for him I helped him leave the country then packed me and my daughter up, got on a plane with what little money I had left and met up with him later.
Sacrifices he made for me: He put his name on my daughters’ birth certificate as her father and never once did he worry about the repercussions of doing it. She is severely disabled and he wanted to be her father even with all the financial and emotional responsibility that is required.

I gave up all the things I had on the East Coast and packed up my son and myself and moved halfway across the country to be with him. That was a while ago though and we’ve moved from that area to another since then.

Currently, I’m at our home taking care of things while he is deployed. All of our family is thousands of miles away. Here it’s just me and my son for now. I send care packages twice a month (sometimes more), stay up all hours of the night to talk to him, and will continue to do so until he comes home. I do everything I can to stay strong for him, support him, and show him I love him every day.

What it all boils down to is that a year without him physically with me is still better than not having him in my life at all.

@Seaofclouds thats an awesome way of looking at things. i get sad if i have to be without my boyfriend for a week. i dont know how you do it, but i admire it so much.

@deni Thanks. I get through it one day at a time. I have some really sad days, but I push through them because he’s worth it.

Not sure. I had been up all night with a severe, possibly life threatening illness where I hemmorhaged repeatedly to the point I fell to the bathroom floor with severe sweating and thanked God for cold floor tiles. Next morning as I laid down feeling terribly weak he called me from the hospital and told me in no uncertain terms I had to drive across town and pick him up at the hospital. The dr didnt even want him to leave. I got lost in the place and a nurse took me on a long walk to an elevator to go to the correct SECTION of the hospital. As I stood in that elevator I almost passed out but as much as I wanted to, I held it together.
Any expressions of sympathy welcome as he never believed me.
This was in February!

Mine would be this. My wife went into the Hospital last August of 2009 and was dianosed with a very serious illness. She went into a coma and was put on dialysis and her liver failed. I was brought into a room and told that she was going to pass away. She stayed in a coma for 3 weeks and started to make a slight recovery. She stayed in the Hospital until May of this year and when she came home I am her only care giver. She had 5 different drains in her body cavity, she had an ileostmy that needs a bad over it, she lost over 100 pounds is learning to walk again, she has lost all her hair, she had an open wound the size of the grand canyon and a feeding tube into her intestines. I had to learn how to care for all of that and did so around the clock.

She now is getter a bit better. Her hair is growing back. Last time she went to the doctor she had gained 2 pounds. Her drain tubes have been removed, She is walking and getting stronger. Her hair is short but growing back and she eats on her own. This has taken over a year to get to this point and I had no help at all in taking care of her at least not at home. To me though it was and is not a sacrifice it is what a spouse does when the other gets sick. In sickness and health for better or for worse.

@JustmeAman – You are a good man. Not many could do what you did.

@JustmeAman – You are my hero. What an incredible man. You may look at it as, “This is what a spouse does,” I look at it as “This is what an amazing spouse does.” Wow.