Sometimes, it’s the little things people say that make you realise just how much you mean to them.
For these Nigerians, they can never forget the exact words that made them realise they’d found their person. And they were more than happy to share their stories.
“I don’t want to be far away from you.”
He turned down an apartment he really wanted because it was 25 minutes farther away from me. — Dumininu* 26
“If it concerns you, it’s important to me.”
I asked how she remembered the littlest details about me. — Godspower* 24
“Your kids are my kids.”
He said this before our wedding, when I had to adopt my late sister’s children. — Peace* 34
“My last minutes will play our memories together.”
I showed her a story about how your best memories replay in your mind before you die. — Imisi* 29
“I’ll never let anyone bully you.”
He said, after I told him how my relatives had tossed me around once I became orphaned. —Vera* 26
“You can choose to pay me back with forever.”
I confessed that I couldn’t repay the money he’d given me. —Chidubem* 30
“It can’t be disgusting. It’s you,”
he said, as I threw up everywhere and he cleaned up after me. —Hamida* 25
“I’m always on your side first,”
he said, while defending me after I got into an argument with his mum. —Charity* 42
“I believe in you more than I do in myself.”
He assured me, when I was doubting my path as a writer. —Kemi* 24
“I hope I die first. I can’t bear life without you,”
she commented, while we were watching a movie where one partner died. —Adam* 33
“I will give up my last naira for you.”
I joked that my biggest fear was going broke. —Yemisi* 25
“I’m already lucky we’re together.”
asked him what would make him the luckiest person in the world. —Ada* 22
“Like one thousand things remind me of you,”
he texted days after we met, while on a work trip. —Sekinah* 27
“You have my full support in everything you do,”
she texted randomly. I couldn’t hold back my tears. —Kola* 32
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