'She brings me tea and biscuits when I'm stressed': Readers share everyday acts of love

Valentine’s Day may invite grand gestures, but it’s the small, habitual acts that sustain our closest relationships.

Nicole Glennon and Manon Gilbart asked readers to share the everyday ways they show – and receive – love. Illustration: Katerina Koniukhova, iStock

“My fiancé Emmet drove an Enterprise van around rural Ireland for a month and a half to move the set and production manage a play I wrote. I had promised we’d write the play together — but I accidentally wrote it alone. He still loved me enough to do a thankless task and put his life (and our wedding planning) on hold, and tell me I was brilliant every artistically faltering step of the way. He is the brilliant one — who knew there could be so much love in a rental van?”

Aoife and her fiancé Emmet who are getting married April 4 (the day after Aoife's mam and dad's 45th wedding anniversary)