I am made to feel special by my husband when he does practical tasks for me particularly without being asked, i.e, making me a cup of coffee in the morning when he is downstairs (I don't always get up with him as he leaves the house at 5.30) and he brings it up to me before he goes.
he often fills my car up with petrol for me so i don't have to do it (He knows I hate filling the car) and he is an absolute god send as my personal computer support engineer as I am a reallyrubbish pc user. He writes all sorts of scripts and programs for me that are form based so I don't have to do any HTML coding or anything like that, which I hate and can't do (I have a web based business you see that I am continually having to update and change the website) Also, he just encourages me to the end to do the things that i want to do so I never feel as though I have failed.
I'm not really into flowers or chocolates of anything like that, but to come home to a clean kitchen or a hooevered floor because he has done it while I've been out: I can't tell you how much that means to me, not least of all because it is also something that he hates doing and he doesnt care if the house is tidy or not. he does it because he knows that I love the house to be tidy and it gets me down when its not.
It's that sense of sacrifice isn't it.
i try to do equivalent for him, but I feel he is a better husband to me than i am wife to him......but it's a work in progress.