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A young couple are cooking together and he mentions that this is special now
but may become the usual in the distant future when they move in together
someday and the like (こんな is referring to this dialogue), and then at the end
the girlfriend remarks:

> …こんなのが当たり前になる日のこと考え **たりしてくれるん** ですね

I understand everything up to 考え but I'm confused about the たりしてくれる part. What
does it mean here? I've seen grammar lessons on -てくれる and たりして but I can't
make sense of either meaning in this sentence. Thanks
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grammar meaning
meaning of たりしてくれる
It sounds like the [~たり~たりする](https://japanesetest4you.com/flashcard/learn-
jlpt-n4-grammar-%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8A%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8A-taritari/)
construction. Sometimes it's used with just one `~たりする`, meaning a non
exhaustive listing, "things like ~", in `て`-form since it's followed by `くれる`.
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To add on to Mauro's answer, the くれる part of this sentence conveys how the
girlfriend thinks that it is thoughtful/caring/considerate that the boyfriend
actually thinks about the day that such things will become the norm.

Why the girlfriend would think this in a positive light (as implied by くれる) is
entirely dependent on context/interpretation, but one can most commonly
interpret it as the girlfriend being comforted that the boyfriend thinks about
their future and relationship in a concrete way. i.e. you are thinking about
this for me / for our relationship (~くれる)

So in a very non-literal translation, this sentence would be "I appreciate*
you contemplating about this and more^."

```

    * - implied by ~くれる
    ^ - implied by ~たりして
    
```
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