5 Telltale Signs that He Misses You

Dodong is an owner of a lonely heart

In our relationship, I've always been the one who is clingy and who longs for his presence (whether physical or just emotional since we are not physically together). I'm the one who always misses him more than he misses me. He is the tough guy who is not so showy of his emotions / feelings. You get the picture. Those who know Dodong too well can attest to that.

But in the past days, I've been seeing a strange, out-of-this-world, pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming kind of change. Dodong actually misses me more than I do. He is surprisingly very very very lonely, longing for my presence. So how did I get to know this?

Here are the 5-tell tale signs that he misses me sooooo much…

He finally admitted that he is lonely.

Yes acceptance is the first stage. He just texted me one fine day that it dawned upon him that at the end of each monotonous desert day, he is alone. Yes he has friends and/or housemates to be with and he can entertain himself with shopping, movies, gimik galore but still he is lonely. I guess that the excitement of exploring a new place has finally died down, after almost a year and a half (well, 428 days to be exact) of being in the desert sands of the UAE.

He ALWAYS texts me when he arrives at the office and when gets home from work  / gimik

He used to hate this. We call it reporting for duty. He couldn't understand why the hell he needs to inform me where he was at certain points in time, if he gets home at what time, blah, blah, blah. It was just too suffocating for him.

But now, he tells me when he gets to the office, especially when I am not online on YM. He also lets me know when he gets home from work and most especially during weekends / gimik nights. And this is without me reminding him to text me. He does it on his own! He's so cute!

He constantly wants to me to communicate with him.

When I'm not online and I don't get to tell him I'm out, he frantically texts me: "Where are you???" I do make it a point now to tell him about my itinerary so he doesn't get too lonely. If I'm out of the office, we do chattext (i.e. chat through text) just to keep in touch.

His heart melts every time he sees my picture.

We've made it a point to regularly send each other pictures of each other to: 1) showcase the outfit of the day — since his office requires business attire and he is a T-shirt and jeans kind of guy and 2) update each of our weight status — losing weight has been quite competitive ever since I lost so much weight.

And I can really feel his sigh every time he replies to my daily journals, whether I'd be super made up (which is so not usual…once in a very very blue moon) or just au natural with absolutely no make up and hair all over the place.

He now finds public declarations of affection amusing.

He loathes PDA. Well, eventually he got used to it I guess. But he still is aloof when I declare my lovey dovey feelings in front of friends. Yesterday, I posted an "I love you! I miss you" message on his Facebook wall. To my surprise, he did not react violently to this and found it very amusing. Because I am "forever cute and amusing"

Little does he know that HE is the one who is amusing now. It actually makes me miss him more. Sigh. I know na ang haba ng hair ko. In english, I am very much flattered because he has never shown this much affection in 7-years++. In reality, it breaks my heart to see him this lonely. Makes me want to buy the next ticket out to Dubai just now. Hmmm…maybe not. Maybe somebody can donate? Hehehe!

How does your better half manifest his missing you?

Love the distance,

Inday I. Nagintay