How often do you say "I love you" to your SO? (marriages, younger)
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It really depends on the person. If you are with someone who's overly affectionate, you are going to get "I love you's" all the time, if you are with someone who shows their affections in other ways then you aren't going to get that. I've been with both, my b/f now though isn't that "I love you" guy. He says it if I say it or every once in a blue moon he'll say it but, he shows his love in other ways. It's all good, the affection is nice but I don't miss it and I don't need to be constantly told I'm loved.
Now, with that said, my relationship with my kids is completely different. I tell them I lov them everyday, they know it and they say it to me too.
Wow. What a bunch of hooey.
Probably guys who think their wives don't need to hear "I love you" are heading to divorce court.
Why is it that the wives/women are the ones that need to hear it and not vice versa?? At least, with the way you worded it. And what a silly reason for a woman to divorce her husband... "He didn't say 'I love you' enough to me!!"
I think being SHOWN that your partner loves you is far more meaningful than some words.. If they do both, then awesome! BUT.. if they dont show it to you, but they SAY it a lot.. then what does that mean? Not a whole lot, IMO. They can tell you I love you 10 times in one day and then cheat on you the next day.. whooptie do... but then you can have your ultra faithful partner who doesnt say it a whole lot, but holds you every night and plays with your hair until you fall asleep... I'll take the latter.
Never because saying it does not mean you really feel it. I think couples who say I love you to their spouse 10 times a day are insecure. It is no different than the lady at the checkout desk at the grocery store who asks every customer "how are you?"
Instead of saying I love you countless times a day, a better approach is actually doing something that shows you mean it. Usually the couples who say "I love you" often are heading to divorce court.
Hmmm, then we should be on solid ground. We haven't said "I love you" to each other in 4 years. I know because that was when my husband left for GA to take some stuff to our new house while I stayed home with our newborn baby.
Yeah, I was just stewing about this today. I think I married some kind of non-emotional robot/ Spock-like creature. Things got worse lately since we moved out of state, he took a new job, and we now have 2 kids, but still, 4 years??? That is wack!
I don't like to hear it all the time. I don't say it all the time either. But we tell or show each other, all the time, how much we love each other in other ways; it's obvious that we do.
I was once berated by an ex because my siblings and I, when we were living at home, wouldn't necessarily greet each other in a vocal way when one of us returned home. To me, we were so comfortable and close with each other, we didn't have to say, "Hi, So-and-so," "Hi, So-and-so." It seemed formal to do that. I don't know...
Anyway, it seems to me that the times we do say "I love you" to each other, it's right before we're falling asleep. Don't know what significance that has...
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