Miss Double ShotI'm a cynic, so
writing this post getting me to say "I love you" to anyone is pretty tough . . . but I'm also fiercely loyal to people I love, so once I start, I can't really stop.
At any rate, the boyf and I have been saying "I love you" to each other for a while now, because we do, but I sort of feel like "love" doesn't often encompass everything I want to say. The word "love" is for suckers, for wedding vows and for printing on teddy bears. I want to adfoadkja;glj a person - something that's so strong that nobody else has come up with it yet . . . preferably with a semicolon somewhere within the actual word.
One of my favorite scenes in Annie Hall is when the two main characters are standing in front of the Manhattan skyline. Annie (Diane Keaton) asks Alvy (Woody Allen) if he loves her, and he says, "Love is too weak a word for the way I feel - I lurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you." Woody, I understand.
Do you ever feel like "I love you" doesn't encompass what you want to say? If you do, how do you combat it - did you make up another word or just accept that "love" is as good as it's gonna get?
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i just yell it in his face. i wish there were another word to express more than love, but i'm sure even that wouldn't cover it.
This is what sex is for...? I'm in the same boat as you, though. Isn't there something more powerful, less...gushy?
@abcxunt@xanga - lol!
"it's not what you say, it's what you do."
if i love him and i feel as if 'i love you' isn't expressing that enough, i try to show er prove to him how much i care about him.
I don't know...
To me... I need you is more than just I love you... so yea...
or simply You complete me
@pSyCh0o_xx@xanga - exactly.
If you can't say it, show it. That's the way I solve the problem, anyway! :)
it's not the words , it's the actions .
1. There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.
George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist
 2. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
3. "When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."
Dr Seuss
4. Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
5. The best thing about me is you.
Shannon Crown
6. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
7. If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.
Anonymous
8. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
9. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Heather Cortez
10. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
I totally feel this way. I want a new word with a semicolon in it too. Lol. Maybe this new word can have an action attached to it... Like... you know when you say "Hi!" you can wave at someone at the same time? Well this new word should have like an optional jumping up and down motion or something too...
@HeartOfPandora@xanga - I do have to agree though, that's what sex is for!
I definitely believe that showing is a lot better than saying, but I am guilty of making up words sometimes. "Lovezoo!" is particularly fun :]
You have no idea how happy it made me to read this. I agree with you so completely. I actually recently wrote a blog about how people use the word Love, I think if you feel that for somebody then you should show them, not just say it.
meh, yeah. I'm a cynic too. I explained the concept to my boyfriend and he said he knows exactly what I mean... so pretty much when we say it, we know it means something else?
"Love" is just a word until it's put into action - you increase the power of the word by acting in a loving manner.
I agree with everyone so far who has said "show your love" when words aren't enough. And really, that's what love is all about. You should be able to KNOW your partner loves you no matter how often they utter the three word phrase. Doing nice things for them when they least expecting it (a compliment, a massage, a chore), seeing something at a store that you know they'd like and buying it out of the blue, looking into their eyes and holding them and just completely radiating all of the love that you feel in your heart...Yes. I am CLEARLY a romantic. But in my experience, things such as these express love and show how much you care.
Good luck! :)
in addition to saying it, show it! oh, thats what everybody said already lol =P
Well I like WOW (with out words) and we know what it means as we both feel love just isn't a strong enough word. I asked my daughter one evening in reference to her guy, do you ever feel so full of love for him that you have cried, as you feel like it's running over inside and it has to come out in some form? She had and to me that is your true soul mate, heart to heart, love of all time and it is truly WOW.
I feel the same, I wish there was something stronger. When you look at other languages, many of them have more than one word for 'love' and it's different meanings, such as one for love of a family member and one for love of a partner. Since English is pretty limited in that, I often end up saying it in Arabic when I feel that I need something stronger than "I love you". Or I say "I adore you" in Arabic for a change.
I try to always show him I love him, but sometimes I just want to make it crystal clear. :)
There is always more to say. Like "If I could have you for the rest of my life, I could. I want to caress your hair, kiss your lips, I want to lay next to you and keep you warm. I want to give you all of my body for years to come. I want to do more than jst love you. I want to have you for the rest of my life. If I don't, my days won't be as illuminating as you have made them now. Simply, you have put this emotional hold on me. Call it cheesy, but I like the feeling, too. If you will let me feel this sense of serenity forever, I'll make it worth your while, too. I love you, baby."
I don't care if that makes some sick or think it is cheesy, but dadgummit, that's romantic and "beyond" to me.
I like the phrase, "I adore you."
It means the same thing, but not as many people say it.
mmmhm... "love" is so overused, used when it shouldn't be. It's lost its meaning.
but if you remember the bible's definition, it should suffice.
There's only one person I say "I love you" to, otherwise, I try to let my actions speak for themselves.
Make your actions show more.
We've been saying I love you for 4 years now. Because there are actions behind it, it still holds strong and also shows something even more (which obviously has yet to be dubbed with a word.)
"I asdfghjkl; you."
I'm not too sure how you'd pronounce it, but I'm pretty sure there's a silent 'm' somewhere in there...
To my best friend, it's "I luff you" (or when she says it, "luff my puff"). To my ex, we had a two part saying:
"Hugs and Kisses"
"And Angel Wishes"
On that same note, her pet name for me was sweetie. Hers was "love". Even after we broke up we continued, because it was so awkward to say each others names, but eventually we just started avoiding referring to each other by name at all (in the few interactions we had). But here's the funny thing. Neither of us can reuse those pet names now, because they're (somewhat) permanently ours. So she calls her new man "babe" (ungh, gross), and well, I'm still single, but I don't think I can use "love" ever again.
I think the next relationship I'll just start translating things into other languages.
@SerenaDante@xanga - ROFLMAO<333
I love that idea.. "optional jumping up and down movement" haha<33
@LidoAznChickXD@xanga - =D