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101 Ways

To Show Someone You Love Them


Here is a list of 101 ways to show someone you love them, without anything sexual being involved. The list was created by students in Thurrock and Essex.


1. Show you love them by expressing your feelings in a love poem

2. Write their name with a sparkler

3. Make them a cup of tea

4. Love everything about them even the bits they hate

5. Tell them you love them and that they are special

6. Tell them they’re beautiful

7. Make them their favourite meal

8. Play footsy

9. Send them flowers

10. Surprise them with a gift

11. Text them

12. Visit them often

13. Flirt

14. Remind them that their uniqueness is what shines to you

15. Stick up for them all the time

16. Support them

17. Name a star after them

18. Suck their toes

19. Say to them “you’re the one for me”

20. Take them out

21. Make them smile

22. Go out with them to dinner

23. Be by their side through good and bad times

24. Make them trust you

25. Share secrets

26. Cuddle them

27. Watch their favourite film with them, even if you don’t like it

28. Be strong for them and be there for them

29. Go to the cinema

30. Hold their hand

31. Write them a love letter

32. Look after them when they are ill

33. Make sure they are safe

34. Give them your last rolo

35. Gaze at the stars together

36. Wink at them

37. Massage their feet

38. Make a CD of your favourite songs

39. Sing to them

40. Never judge them

41. Take them for a trip to the zoo or aquarium

42. Buy them chocolate

43. Listen to them

44. Surprise them

45. Smile at them

46. Hug and kiss them

47. Grow old together

48. Blush when they’re around

49. If their having a bad hair day – don’t mention it

50. Make them laugh

51. Gaze into their eyes

52. Chill out together

53. Be open and honest

54. Tell them they’re a great friend

55. Share your favourite thing with them

56. Show that you care

57. Nibble their ear

58. Show you care everyday

59. Let them know you’re always there

60. Tell them that they are the funniest person you know, and that they make you laugh

61. Talk for hours and hours

62. Listen to love songs together

63. Tell them you love them more than shoes

64. Tell them that love is spending time with them

65. Tell them that words can’t describe how you feel about them

66. Share a gingerbread man

67. Tickle them

68. Take them to the fair

69. Take them to the place where you first met

70. Organise an ‘I love you’ message out of the back of a plane

71. Go for a romantic walk on the beach

72. Buy them a piece of the moon

73. Buy them a kinder egg and hide a ring inside

74. Make them a walkway to dinner using candles and roses

75. Go paddling on a summers day together

76. Leave romantic notes on their pillow

77. Write their name in sand

78. Run them a bath

79. Learn to say ‘I love you’ in 10 different languages

80. Parachute together

81. Throw them a surprise party

82. Share strawberries dipped in chocolate

83. Write them a love song

84. Each suck one end of a piece of spaghetti and meet in the middle

85. Make something for them

86. Respect each other

87. Win them a prize (e.g. cuddly toy)

88. Dance with them in a candle lit room

89. Go on a bike ride together

90. Adopt an animal for them

91. Give them a pet name

92. Spend a day pampering each other

93. Find a special hobby to do together

94. Tell them all the little things you love about them

95. Have a moonlight picnic together

96. Cuddle at the cinema

97. Have a locket with their picture in

98. Put a note in their pack lunch saying ‘I love you’

99. Sit under the pier and eat fish and chips together

100. Never cheat on them

101. Read them the 101 ways to show someone that you love them other than having sex and then try some of them!


Your New Suggestions:

Here are some suggestions that other Youth Health users have made:


Submitted: 02/02/2010 14:18 – Stroke their hair

Submitted: 02/02/2010 14:19 - Tell them they have the most beautiful smile

Submitted: 10/02/2010 14:48 - Buy a pair of interlocking necklaces for each of you

Submitted: 22/02/2010 13:40 - Sit with them and not say a word while gazing into their eyes for a whole minute. Then kiss

Submitted: 04/03/2010 11:01 - Draw a picture of them on Microsoft paint.

Submitted: 09/03/2010 08:43 - Tell them your are there for them

Submitted: 23/03/2010 12:19 - Play with their hair

Submitted: 01/04/2010 09:35 - Leave notes in their lunch box

Submitted: 15/04/2010 14:48 - Send them a love letter

Submitted: 20/04/2010 13:41 - Suck your toes is not a way to tell someone that you love them, in fact that is probably the biggest turn off I have ever heard! Instead of that: watch the stars together and tell them you love them at every breaking moment.

Submitted: 20/05/2010 – Show them you love them by giving your heart to them.

Submitted: 20/05/2010 - Show them you are comfortable when they are around.

Submitted: 20/05/2010 - Go out with them.

Submitted: 20/05/2010 - Talk to them as much as you can, but don’t DON’T don’t suck their toes :)

Submitted: 25/05/2010 - Just spend time with them

Submitted: 12/06/2010 - Don’t make fun of them, and don’t talk about them behind their back, because they are your best friend! Learn to trust them and do things they want to do, even if u don’t like them, because they will do things you like, that they don’t like.

Submitted: 07/07/2010 – Kiss in the rain

Submitted: 12/07/2010 – Watch a romantic film together

Submitted: 19/07/2010 – Make them a daisy chain


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