it means I want the best for you,your needs and not necessarily our wants


, with or without me,,

Everything

Some can say I love you but it has no meaning so therefore it means nothing. Their actions show the opposite. Hippocrate

Others can say it but also back it up with actions

I agree, saying I love you needs to be backed up with actions.

its quite obvious when peeps say it and don't mean it.

" mot what you say
it's what you do "

that's so sweet I agreed

that's so sweet I agreed

This guy has his head on straight. And while he is probably as hopeful as any other man that wishes to get I love you brought into fruition with physical expression (sex) I doubt he is the type to say it just to get laid which, at your age is a real risk.

you know u love someone when no matter how angry they make u or maybe they have bad habits. no matter what, you will feel a strong need and want for this person. u will worry about them constantly. u will know when you're in love. its unconditional.

It means absolutely nothing unless you show it in full force. Words are cheap actions are real.

BF :I love you
Me: Show me
BF: want to have sex
Me: NO
BF: Then how you want me to show you
Me: Show me your all credit card bills

Conclusion: Love should be both emotional and realistic

Um...well...cough cough...those are....um....personal...is it hot on here?

Deceipt leads to distrust leads to disintegration

Love is possibly the single most confusing, complicated, rare concepts we have.

There's an old parable which I commend to you, OP, to expand your own understanding of both yourself, and all the other people who will tell you what love is, what it means, or who will say they feel it.

It is the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Google it, if you don't know it already. When applied to love, and what people say about love, it encapsulates well, why people can adamantly agree and disagree about it at the same time.

Taking a step beyond the story that parable tells, you can hopefully recognize further, that your own understanding of what love is, will always be an evolving, not a static thing.

At your own current stage of life, the most important thing to recognize, is that there always IS going to be a difference between SAYING the word love, and actually applying it accurately.

As in the parable, it's very common for people early on, to come into contact with one aspect of love, and to become certain that that is exactly and all that there is to it.

That is the leading cause, for example, of why lots of people think that the jiggly nervous lust sensation they experience around an attractive person, is Love itself. Since the feeling comes and goes for various reasons, some will conclude that they love you one day, because you wore certain clothes which set them off, or because you were willing to experiment sensually or sexually with them in some way. And they may conclude that love is gone, because when they see you at your worst, that they don't feel that jiggly lust. And as well, I've seen some who will conclude that because they feel that sensation in reaction to lots of members of the opposite sex, that they are THE most loving person ever to exist, and that they need to share themselves with everyone they feel "jiggly" about.

And another big problem happens to lots of people, especially those who have been through a lot, such as those in my age range. That is, having discovered how difficult it is to know what love is, and having correctly come to distrust JUST the jiggly sensation, they try to concoct a scientific approach to mate hunting, where they ignore all the aspects of love itself, and instead focus on checking off lists of "red flags" and "relationship requirements." If they aren't lucky, they will go for years filling out imaginary paperwork on everyone they meet, and never realize they've actively prevented love from happening.

Anyway, at your stage, I recommend that you accept that many of the people around you also know as little as you do about love, and are therefore going to make what I call "discovery mistakes" about it. What they say will often be what they think is true, even though it will later become clear that it wasn't at all. But you will both learn from the debacles, and advance towards what you actually want, through the mistakes. In short, patience.

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