We asked, you answered! Herewith, your tales of our the sensitive, real-life guys who rock your worlds and, if it ever starts to falter, restore your faith in the opposite sex.

First of all: they were all great. Like, made me cry repeatedly great. I wish we could have featured all the partners and dads and stepdads and brothers and friends whom you told us about. Think of what follows as representative of all of them — and rest assured that even if we couldn't feature them here, your words were read and appreciated!


Dean's List

I want to nominate my hot, feminist, grammar nerd, law student boyfriend Nick as a Real Sensitive Guy.

On Valentine's Day, he wrote and recorded and song for me and posted it on YouTube. One night I drunkenly rambled about my random obsession with Koko the gorilla. On my next birthday, he gave me a signed and autographed copy of a book about the Koko project written in the 70s by Koko's trainer, Penny Patterson. For another birthday, he got us His and Hers copies of Bryan Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage.

When my application to law school was denied, he wrote a long, sweet email about me to the dean of admissions, begging her to reconsider my application, She did, and the school decided to accept me. He actually paid my application fee because I was broke.

He watches stupid cartoons and cooking shows with me and is generally a total nerd like I am, but he's also a very serious well-read political liberal who is extremely conscious of sexism, racism, classism, homophobia and transphobia.

He is just incredibly sweet and awesome, funny and wordy and weird, he always cooks for me, he knows everything about health care, and he loves videos of baby otters. Because I am not as great at thinking of thoughtful things to do for him as he is for me, I would love it if you could post this so I could show him how much I appreciate him.