#RelationshipGoals: You’re going to want a husband like this Oakwood dad

JD Whitlock is the kind of guy you want to find at the end of the aisle.

The Dayton resident, with the help of his daughter Katie Whitlock, set the Internet on fire with a poem 20 years in the making.

But as Katie explains below, the “super poem” he gave his wife this year is just one reason JD is a stand up guy.

We will tell you about the poem first, in case you missed it.

As Katie explained in a Twitter post Tuesday, JD has  written her mom Sara a love poem each Valentine's Day since 1997, the year the married.

This year, 20 years later, JD put a lot of other dudes to shame when he took a line from each of those poems and combined them into that super romantic “super poem” we just told you about.

It is super sweet.

All the lines are JD’s original work, except the line for 2002, Katie said.

JD borrowed it from the U2 song “Grace” and worked in into that year’s poem.

Get some tissues. Here is the poem spanning 19 years of marriage: 

Katie, an 18-year-old senior at Oakwood High School, said the love her dad has for her mom is not confined to the page.

In 2009, Sara was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, her daughter said. JD sprung into action.

“My dad was the rock of my family and he never got any recognition for that outside of my family,” Katie said. “It is really cool to see him get the recognition for the love he has for my mom.”

Katie said her parents met in Italy, where they both served in the Navy. He is from Rochester, New York and she is from Dunlap, Tenn.

The couple’s youngest daughter, Elena, is a freshman at Oakwood.

Katie said 99 percent of the reaction to her dad’s gesture has been positive.

“They hope to find a husband like my dad,” she said proudly.

For her part, Sara said the letter is the least of what her husband had done to show his love.

Now on immunotherapy for her cancer, Sara said her husband has helped her through some very dark days.

“There have been some really scary moments,” she said. “The man has never one time complained about the extra duties he’s had to pull.”

JD saved the poems he’s wrote his wife on his hard drive, but a few files were damaged and could  not be used. That accounts for missing years in the poems.

Sara kept printed copies of the poems, but had no idea her husband had created a new poem with the prior ones until he presented it to her in front of their daughters.

“It brought back lots of memories, things you forget about in the busyness of life,” she said. “It such a testiment of all the things we walked through the 20 years we have been together.”

Sara joked that she's not going to be able to give JD a hard time  about cleaning up his office because he'll be able to reminder her of that time his poem to her went viral and everyone tagged their story with "#relationshipgoals."

“I am never going to be able to irritated by him again,” she said.

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Buzzfeed and other websites picked up on the touching act of love.

Here is the a better look at the letter JD gave Sara: 

The gesture gave people on Twitter all sorts of feels.

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