Birthday Wishes for a Husband

Warm and specific

1. 1 Happy birthday to the man who makes the tea every single morning without being asked once in eleven years.
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2. 2 Happy birthday. You are the person I want to tell things to first, and that has never changed.
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3. 3 Another year of you being quietly excellent at everything. Happy birthday.
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4. 4 Happy birthday. You make the ordinary days good, which is the harder trick.
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5. 5 I would choose this again. Happy birthday.
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Romantic, without being a greeting card

1. 6 Happy birthday. Still you, still this, still glad.
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2. 7 Twelve years and you are still the best part of the day.
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3. 8 Happy birthday to the person I like most and love most, which is not always the same person for everyone.
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Funny

1. 9 Happy birthday. You are aging beautifully and I am aging competitively.
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2. 10 Happy birthday to the man who has never once loaded the dishwasher correctly.
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3. 11 Another year and you still cannot find anything in the fridge. Happy birthday.
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For a milestone birthday

1. 12 Forty, and you have never looked less like it. Happy birthday.
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2. 13 Fifty. Half of them have been with me and they are the good half.
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3. 14 Happy sixtieth. You have earned a very quiet day and I have booked one.
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If it has been a hard year

1. 15 Happy birthday. This year was hard and you carried a great deal of it. I saw.
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2. 16 Wishing you a much better year. Whatever it holds, I am in it.
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3. 17 Happy birthday. No plans, no fuss, just a good day if we can manage one.
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From the family

1. 18 Happy birthday, Dad. From all of us, and from the dog, who insisted.
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2. 19 Happy birthday from your entire noisy household.
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3. 20 Happy birthday. The children made this card and I take no responsibility for the spelling.
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Short, for a gift tag or a text

1. 21 Happy birthday. I love you.
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2. 22 Best person I know. Happy birthday.
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3. 23 Happy birthday, love.
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4. 24 Still you. Happy birthday.
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Finding the specific thing

1. 25 What does he do every morning without being asked?
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2. 26 What did he handle this year that you did not have to think about?
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3. 27 What is he good at that he does not think counts?
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4. 28 What do the children get from him that they do not get from you?
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5. 29 What would you miss most on an ordinary Tuesday?
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For a husband who is also a father

1. 30 Happy birthday. You are a better father than either of us expected and it is the best thing about you.
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2. 31 Happy birthday. Watching you with them is the thing I would choose to keep.
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3. 32 Happy birthday. They think you are the fun one. I know you are also the one who does the school run.
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From the children

1. 33 Happy birthday Dad. From all of us. Two of us have signed it and one has drawn on it.
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2. 34 Happy birthday, Dad. We have bought you socks again.
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3. 35 Happy birthday. Best dad, worst jokes.
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For a long marriage

1. 36 Happy birthday. Thirty years and you are still the person I want to tell things to first.
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2. 37 Happy birthday. We have got through some genuinely hard years and I would not have done it with anyone else.
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3. 38 Happy birthday. Still glad, still sure.
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When he says he does not want anything

Extremely common, and rarely entirely true.

1. 39 Get him the card anyway. "Nothing" almost never includes the card.
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2. 40 "You said nothing, so here is nothing, plus this" works every time.
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3. 41 A day arranged exactly as he would want it is the gift for a man who says he wants nothing.
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If he is unwell, or it has been a difficult year

1. 42 Happy birthday. This year took a great deal out of you and you never once complained about it.
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2. 43 Happy birthday. Nothing is required of you today.
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3. 44 Happy birthday. Quiet day, no plans, just us.
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Short lines

1. 45 Happy birthday. I love you.
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2. 46 Still you. Happy birthday.
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3. 47 Best man I know. Happy birthday.
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4. 48 Happy birthday, love.
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