When I was a kid, I’d stay up late on the couch watching TV with my dad. I always pretended to fall asleep, even when I wasn’t tired, just so he would carry me to bed. There was something magical about those moments the way he’d gently scoop me up, the smell of his flannel shirt, the safe rhythm of his steps.
He never called me out on it. He always just picked me up.
Time flew by. I grew up, moved out, built my own life. My dad started getting older, slower… until one day, he didn’t really leave the couch much at all.
Last night, I visited him after work. He was dozing off mid-conversation, TV still on. He looked peaceful, but tired in a way I hadn’t seen before. I quietly turned off the TV, covered him with a blanket, and just stood there for a second.
Then I scooped him up. Carried him to bed, just like he used to do for me.
He half-woke and whispered, “You always were good at pretending to be asleep.”
I laughed. He remembered.
I don’t know how many more times I’ll get to do that. But I’ll carry him as long as I can.
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This hit me right in the heart. What a beautiful, full-circle moment. The love between a parent and child really never fades it just changes shape over time. Thank you for sharing this.
This is making me miss my dad so much. I’m crying
It’s because of things like this post that I have Reddit. Beautiful. I’ll do it too for my parents, grandparents, siblings, friends… my whole family. It touched my heart, OP.
There’s something sacred about the quiet ways we repay the love we were given. This gave me chills what a beautiful, silent promise between you two.
It’s strange how we spend our childhood needing them, and adulthood realizing they needed us too. Beautiful moment.
I used to pretend to be asleep on the couch so my father would carry me, too. He passed away some years ago now. He was so kind and loving. I only hope he felt it back.
Right out of the I love you forever book! 🥹
I’m crying OP, thank you for that. Missing my dad, I just had a dream of him last week.
I really loved this too! I must have felt so great to return the favor! Sadly my dad passed away last september, maybe my brother would have been strong enough to pick him up haha. He was strong and had too much muscle from the hard work he did everyday.
I wish i could turn back the time to be a child again and would be carried to bed. Your Story made me really happy and sad at the same time.
Thank you for sharing this perfect moment!
That actually made me tear up a little. Thank you for sharing this with us. Very beautiful.
Have you ever read the children’s story “Love you forever”? You might like it.
Enjoy these moments!
My dad and I would always arm wrestled and I remember saying that the day I was stronger than my dad I would officially be a grown up. At 36 I finally won! I lost him less than a year later and wish I never played that last game
As someone who honestly only had his dad as a positive anything in this world, I truly hope you enjoy these moments
Truly wished I had more time with mine
I just realized now how much I miss my dad from the time he used to pick me up from school. I really miss him a lot.
Damn.
Now I’m crying.
Thank you for sharing this.
This reminds me of the book “I love you forever”. Quite traumatic I recommend not reading unless you want to cry.
This made me well up. How wholesome 🥺
This reminds me of the children’s book, “Love you forever.” If you’ve never read it, you need to buy it asap.
Warning: you’ll cry.
Zapped me right back to reading “I’ll Love You Forever” to my sweet babies, through streaming tears and emotions.
Six grandkids later and I still can’t make it through.
Stay blessed, friends.
Got me teary-eyed. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing such a warm moment.
Nice to see people out there having parents that actually loved them and still do
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Okay I’m tearing up at the YMCA. This is so sweet.
This is love. ❤️
I can’t scoop up my dad. But I wish I could. Although he wouldn’t let me 😉
I see him getting older, his body not working the way he wants anymore. But also his mind.
He is still here, and I love him with all my heart. I hope he will stay for a while longer
Thanks for sharing such a lovely moment. I usually find sad stories here and this was perfect to start my day. I hope you get to keep carrying your dad and having wonderful moments with him for a long time.
Fucking hell mate, gives a bit of warning eh.
Make sure you cherish every moment.
I’m not crying… you are!
My(39f) dad died 3 years ago. It’s a reality that’s inevitable, shitty nonetheless. Nothing prepares you for a world where what you’ve always known doesn’t exist.
This is so sweet 🥹
Thank you for this. Man I miss my Dad 🙁
I just lost my dad. Love him as much as you can.
Right in the feels, OP. Thank you for sharing this lovely story. Much love to you and your dad. 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
This is just like the book “I’ll Love You Forever”. What a very sweet relationship you have with your father!
I love this more than I can say. My dad died when he was in his 40’s and I was only in my 20’s. I hope, more than anything, that my son will one day have this type of moment with his dad. ♥️ Thank you for sharing.
This is so sweet and my eyes are tearing up.
Wasn’t expecting to boo-who my eyes out today…but here I am. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful experience. 🤍
Man, this got me right in the gut. My dad has ALS and won’t be here much longer. Thank you for sharing this. 🩷
Such a touching story. Thanks for the feel good of the day
Are you a professional power lifter? How could you scoop up a grown man and carry him to bed? I’m a 6‘4“ 200 lb dude and there’s no way i could scoop up someone like that… This makes no sense.
Thank you for making my day. It’s nice to know love like this actually exists in the world
“I’ll love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby, you’ll be.”
“As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be”
I got a meeting in 4 minutes fuuu
>He half-woke and whispered, “You always were good at pretending to be asleep.”
>I laughed. He remembered.
Fuck that got me. I was just laughing with my own parents about how I used to fake being half asleep from long car rides to get that VIP service. Cherish what time you have with him, cheers OP. Ty for sharing.
Well this wouldn’t be the first time Chat GPT made me cry.
i’ll love you forever 💗
Oh my gosh that made me cry. Such a touching moment I know you’ll both get to carry with you forever. Love truly prevails. Thank you for sharing, I think I’m gonna hug my dad every right next time I see him. 💜
You can’t have me crying in a pizzeria on a Monday. 🥺🥺🥺🥹🥹🥹🥹
I saw a post like this before
Now I’m crying 😭
This is why we lift
Carrying groceries, lifting family members
i used to fall asleep in the car rides whenever we would go out and my dad would carry me and my mom would carry my sister even if we faked being asleep, simple times.
Crying
OP what the hell.. I didn’t want to cry today and you went and ruined that.
Hell yeah you will.
Gosh this got me 😢 love that you did this for him
Used to pretend to sleep so my brother would carry me to bed. So now I’m crying
Don’t mind me just cutting a truckload of onions over here.
Stay blessed, OP 🤙
Thank you for making me cry. And thank you for sharing a beautiful moment.
You brought back such a sweet memory for me. My dad worked second shift when I was really little and I’d often sleep with my mom till he got home. He’d carry me into my own bed. I’d often be awake and pretend to be asleep just so I could have that snuggle, safe, wonderful feeling.
In my teens it came up that he knew I was awake and I It took me ages to figure out that he could tell the difference by a snuggle bug and a limp body. Lol. Thanks for the memory. I sure miss my dad.
This reads like “Love You Forever”
This is lovely. I lost my dad recently and towards the end he wasn’t able to walk and I wish I had been physically strong enough to carry him. It’s a blessing and a privilege to have loving parents and I hope you have many more good years with your dad.
How dare you make me cry at work.
Ill never see my dad get old. I miss him.
This is sweet. I can’t imagine doing this to my dad because he’s massive. Twice my weight and half a foot taller.
okay this is definitely ai. a 4 day old account with 3 posts and you are allegedly 24F but you scooped him up no issue? a grown man? okay. and this is straight from a children’s book, be fr.
and for many years after he is gone.
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Thanks for making me cry OP. I used to do the same thing and have very fond memories of that. But my family started falling apart when I was 13. All I wanted was to go back to a time where I at least thought I had a normal, loving family. Now the damage has been done, it’s a bit too late, and I’ll never have a normal, healthy, loving relationship with my parents. I really hope I won’t regret this too much when they’re gone.
I have memories of the good times but the bad times sadly stand out more.
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be 😭😭❤️
There comes a day in every parent’s life when they put their kid down, and never pick them up again.
Absolutely beautiful
“Love you forever” by Robert Munsch popped into my head when I read this. Then I bawled. Both of my parents have passed, helping mom to bed is one of my last memories with her.
In tears…I just left my Mamaw’s house after visiting for the week. She is no longer mobile and I did all the stuff. I live a few states away, so spending that time with her meant the world to me. I would 100% do it everyday, all day, if I could. She cared for us (and our uncle with cerebral palsy) with everything she has and I love her beyond words.
I like this story because my son does this. I knew one day I was gonna miss carrying him to bed. He’s was terrible at pretending. He always smiled with his eyes closed as I carried him.
I miss my dad. 2 years ago this March. A week before he passed I carried him from his chair to his car so he could be rushed to the hospital. This post broke me for a bit.
If you enjoyed this AI-written story, then you will love the book written by a human with real emotions. I highly suggest supporting your local library and borrowing Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.
I laughed. What an awesome memory.
I used to read my daughter to sleep when she was small.
Now she’s 18 and sometimes she reads ME to sleep.
…How big are you?!!? How big is your dad? Do you work out?!? You’ve got a previous post saying you’re 24F but dads tend to be HEAVY.
I love you forever, I like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be
This is sooo sweet! My dad passed away when I was 14, but I still have fond memories of him carrying me to bed while I pretended to be asleep. I have 3 adult kids, and would always carry them up to bed when they were little
I hope my kids remember me carrying them off to bed and giving them hugs and kisses in bed.
It’s important to me that they always remember they’re loved.
Oh nevermind, this is just AI farming engagement. Consider my heartstrings unpulled.
Your post chokes me up. Thank you for sharing. I’m going to call my dad now.
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as you’re living, my baby you’ll be.”
Fuck, my chest hurts.
I don’t know. I think it’s kind of weird to do this to an adult. Leave them be on the couch. Also, physically, how? No chance I could lift my dad off the couch and he’s like 170 lb tops?
This also reads like an AI prompt.
Reminds me so much of one of my favorite books as a very young child- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch!
I love this!! What an amazing full circle moment!
I will never complain about carrying my pretend sleeping kid to bed again. Omg…in tears right now.
This is so beautiful! Absolutely tearing! Sending love x
Damn. This hit hard.
That is beautiful
Who the fuck is cutting onions??
This is that book. The one that we all read in kindergarten. The one that made us realize one day our parents will be gone.
One of my kids has done the “pretend to be asleep” thing for years now, and she’s at the point where she’s too big for me to carry. It’s kind of a sad moment.
This just got me sobbing. My mom used to read me a book about a mom who used to always carry her son to bed even when she got bigger than him, and one day when she was old and frail he carried her to bed. ‘Love you forever’ I think.
Bro I came here to waste time not to start sobbing in the middle of a Wendy’s drive-thru.
This is success. Being such a good parent that your child will now carry you. Bigger than money or fame. This is the best we can ever hope for.
My father passed just on 2 years ago. I miss him a lot. He was 93
One day, your parents picked you up and set you down — and neither of you knew it was the last time
This was so beautiful. I’m tearing up. What a lovely memory to make.
now you must carry Madame Zeroni to bed.
actually made me tear up not gonna lie
Makes me think of the kids book that can’t be mentioned without full tears. So sweet. Thank you for sharing this.
This is the sweetest thing. You’re making me cry lol. Cherish the time you have left with your dad. He’s a treasure and so are you.
Can’t lie, I shed a few tears from this
That is so sweet, I did the exact same thing when I was young with my mum 🥹 you’re a good kid
Reminds me of Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. Impossible to finish without crying.
How incredibly sweet.
This resonates so much and had me in tears. What an amazing bond between the two of you. Thank you for sharing the story it’s the best of humanity. The world needs much more of it.
I love this so much!!! This is wholesome AF.
Gonna hug my dad a little tighter next time I see him
My mom died in March. The last five or six months of her life her health deteriorated rapidly and every weekend was spent driving down to one hospital or another. In the last week, my brother and I helped our mom use the bathroom (then later bedpan), helped clean her and dress her, the exact things she’d done for us.
It was really hard to do and every moment of it I wanted to scream and cry in agony, but now I’m glad I did it. You’ll be glad too.
im really trying hard not to cry because i used to do this as a kid with my mom. the idea of me one day doing it for it is making me cry. like this is so sweet and heartwarming
Dang this brought the water works 😭
Oh man, that’s beautiful and hits hard. I miss my folks so much.
Grab these moments. Never let go of them, never forget them, and cherish whatever time you can spend with your dad.
This shit fake af lol
Beautiful. I used to do that to, but never got to carry my Dad.
He was built like a god damn bull, and I grew up slim like Mam, so had the opportunity arose it would have been an absolute disaster.
Thanks for sharing that mate, it really warmed my heart.
What a beautiful story. I miss my dad and wish I got more moments like this with him. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story.
Atta boy
This is sweet. I used to pretend to fall asleep in the car, on the way back home, so my mother wouldn’t beat my ass for misbehaving at family gatherings.
I’m actually sobbing, this was such a beautiful and heartwarming connection 🥹
It’s a terrible day for rain
the childrens book “love you forever” is basically this same story, about a child whose mothers sings a loving song to her infant and when she is eldery and passing her child comes and sings her the song. good book, good story.
Dammit. Now I’m crying. This is absolutely precious.
That’s the most touching thing ever. he is a very lucky man.
Why do i feel like he had a weird mixture of emotions, feeling happy yet sad, happy you care about him enough to literally carry him to bed, sad that he can no longer always do it himself
I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always as long as I’m with you my daddy you’ll be 😭😭😭
I think about getting old and my kids having to worry about me. My thought immediately is “I never want to burden my kids with everything” and then dark thoughts.
Your post made me re-assess those dark thoughts. Thank you.
As someone who misses their dad more then anything. I’m so glad you’re getting to have lovely moments like this
Enjoy those moments while you can.
Enjoy these moments op ❤️
I think you’d like this book
damn🥲
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.”
That brought tears to my eyes. Such a sweet relationship with your dad. Wishing the both of you the best
He showed up…. So you show up. Cheers
Fuck you for making me cry. My kid refuses to go to bed every other day just so he can stay up with me so this hit right in the feels.
Sounds like the plot to Robert Munchs Love You Forever.
Reminds of the book like “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be”😭😭 it was a picture book I always read growing up
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Aww this made me tear up. What a beautiful relationship you have with your dad.
Crying for a stranger wasn’t on my list today but here we go. Hugs
Damn those ninjas cutting onions! AND I’m at work, too!!!
I’m not crying right now…. I’m not crying right now…. 😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️