There's nothing like a hot drink to brighten your morning—especially if it comes with a smile.
One woman's boyfriend took this literally one morning when, after she said she was sad, he came back with a matcha latte complete with smiley-faced latte art. A video documenting the gesture was posted to TikTok by @frejaboerreolsenn, reaching viral viewership with over 560,000 likes and 1,500 comments since it was posted just two days ago.
"I woke up feeling sad, so he told me to stay in bed and wait until he came back," she captioned the video. "He said, 'I walked back carefully.'"
The video shows her boyfriend revealing the smiley face latte art by taking off the lid as she sits in bed.
Viewers in the comments were smitten by the sweet act.
"I am never settling for anything less than this," @rumpleprincess444 wrote.
"Serious question: Where are y'all finding these men?" @ndt.x wrote.
"He's so precious please keep him forever," @getitalloutonpaper wrote, to which the creator responded, "I intend to."
"I'm afraid I'd put a ring on my man immediately if he did this (I'm not actually afraid, I would really like this)," @unikittykat wrote.
@frejaboerreolsenn He said “i walked back carefully”😫@Mads Ludvig
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Gift-giving: A misunderstood love language
The creator's boyfriend's act can be seen as employing one of the five love languages coined by Gary Chapman in his bestselling book of the same name.
Chapman identified the five love languages as words of affirmation, physical touch, gifts, acts of service and quality time. The matcha latte gesture could be seen as an example of a gift.
Andrew Bland, professor of psychology from Millersville University in Pennsylvania, previously told Newsweek that love languages act as communication channels for affection—and gifts may be one of the more misconstrued languages.
While some may feel gift-giving and receiving is more materialistic than the other expressions of love, Bland said that gifts can be interpreted in ways other than through money: "The gift of one's presence during times of crisis," he said, for example.
Gifts as a love language are a "preference for one's partner to creatively provide a stream of visual symbols of affection that can either be purchased, found or made, and that need not be expensive," he said.
Certainly, the smiling matcha latte gesture was not the most extravagant gift the creator's boyfriend could have secured—but he found a smile in the world and carefully brought it back to his girlfriend in bed. That in itself, judging from her reaction on TikTok, was a priceless gift.
Newsweek reached out to @frejaboerreolsenn for comment via TikTok.
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