Me: “Seriously, I love you so, so much.”

Boyfriend: “Breaking into corny boyfriend mode, then, are we?”

Me: “Sure!”

(I grab my guitar and begin strumming romantically as I talk.)

Me: “My darling, you are the sun in my sky, the smile on my face, the… operating system on my computer?”

Boyfriend: “Aw!”

Me: “You are the drivers for my USB devices. Without you, my life would be a mess. You are the closing curly brace to my Java expressions.”

Boyfriend: “And you are like the sensor on my Nikon D800, ranked first even above medium format cameras, like the SSD in my laptop quietly making every day less of a struggle.”

Me: “And you, my love, are like my 30mm f/2 pancake lens.”

(I never take that lens off; it’s my favourite and I’ve been obsessed with it since I bought it.)

Boyfriend: “Aw! You’re too kind!”

Me: “Oh, god, we are such geeks.”

Boyfriend: “You know what’s geekiest about it?”

Me: “What?”

Boyfriend: “That we understood each other.”