My partner loves me exactly as I am.

There is a thing you do that would irritate most people and that this particular person has simply never raised. Cupboard doors left open. The same four sentences about a film you both saw in 2016.

Being loved exactly as you are is almost never announced. It shows up as an absence — the corrections that do not come, the habit that never becomes a campaign.

Worth noticing, since it is the part of a relationship that receives no credit whatsoever and does most of the load-bearing.