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as an elderly patient at the nursing home I used to work at once said, "honey, I don't care where he gets his appetite as long as he comes home for dinner!"

You sound like you have a lovely, healthy relationship echapman

However...
I... hate that saying!! As the metaphor implies, a person gets a craving for something else and then goes to where he gets a comparable thing (to appease the craving for the other thing) for free. My personal opinion is that a healthy relationship is not about that, as I mentioned above, I believe people can see and admire beauty without craving or desiring it. Or, in the metaphor, they can smell the nice food but not get up an appetite over it. But, despite the fact that you used this metaphor which makes me cringe, it doesn't seem to describe your relationship (so kinda weird that you used it...).

And, your relationship doesn't sound like "crazy in love" to me either by the way you described it above. It sounds like a healthy, normal, loving relationship! People may call normal, healthy relationships "crazy in love" because it sounds more exotic, makes it sound more special. Makes it sound so romantic when we're "head-over-heels in love!" Love is special enough, and crazy is... well, crazy. We don't need to make phrases to make it sound better than the next

But, agreed, to the rest of your post. But, feeling for you a bit with the whole "He has female friends that I know have crushes on him." Girls are very brazen these days It's a good thing he knows what he wants and stands strong by it!