With my husband it was really weird and sweet. We'd been dating for like 2 months and I wrote on a piece of paper 'I'm in love with you' and he just kind of ignored it and I could tell he was uncomfortable. I went to work really frustrated and he text me later in the day "Who am I kidding? I am in love with you and I can't wait for you to come home!" I came home and he came outside in the parking lot and yelled "I love you Samantha!"

in highschool my bf said it to me while we were fooling around and i said "you can't say that now!" and i didn't say it back...then the next day we were sitting by the lake and it was super romantic and the perfect time, so i said "i love you too" and he was quite relieved i think

I don't remember. It's never been a big deal to me to say "I love you." I love lots of people and I'm happy to tell them. My husband is the same way.

With my current boyfriend I said 'I love you' while we were lying in bed beside each other and he just stayed quiet and awkward. I didnt say anything and then about 5minutes later he's like "are you mad at me for not saying it back?" and even though I was a little upset and scared I kind of just brushed it off. About a week later we were joking around and he said "Say that thing again" and I couldnt figure out what he was talking about so he said "say... the L word again" so I did and he looked me dead in the eye with a slight smile and said "Folland.. I love you too."

Turns out that with me, it was the longest he's every taken to tell a girl he loved her because he felt so different with me he wanted to make sure it was right. Every other girl was infatuation but I was the real thing... *sigh* Now he tells me a few times a day how much he loves me and how he's positive we were meant to be.

ummm wellll with my boyfriend I think it was like only 5 months into our relationship...on my birthday actally!

I had a party @ a club and he took me into the bathroom to fool around (hehe) we were a little tipsey and he told me he loved me. I know he shouldn't have been tipsey but I am the first (and only) girl he has said that too so I know he was a little nervous about it and sometimes, the liquor helps get some courage.

He said he wanted to tell me sooner but was scared

we were sitting in a bar because a few of my friends were visiting from out of state. he didn't relaly know anyone there so i understood why he was being quiet. but for some reason he seemed nervous and everytime i looked at him he was staring at me and smiling which was so unlike him. (he hadn't been drinking) when i finally said "what's wrong, why are you looking at me like that?" he motioned for me to look at my phone. he had texted me "You're Beautiful and you make me so happy, i love you." since that day, he hasn't gone more than a few hours without either texting me or telling me he loves me =)

*sigh*
it would be too long of a story to tell....it came after a lot of "this isnt gonna happen" (from my side) until one day it just hit me that i was in love

Actually, I loved my boyfriend from the first second I saw him. I actually called people and said that I saw my future husband; I didn't know his name or anything, but he was my future husband. We work together, so I enlisted some very close friends to help me meet him and it turns out that he felt the same way about me the minute I introduced myself. Amazingly, I can remember other times I told a guy I loved him and he me, not this time. It's something different and something that just was always there, so it's almost like it was a given from the minute we spoke. I hope that makes sense because, for us, we've always loved each other.

Uh, my fiance said it long before I did. I felt the same way, but I just couldn't say it! If I had been in his place, I probably would have killed myself over all the perceived rejection, but he says he knew that I would eventually say it back. If I remember right, I said it in a completely unromantic context. I think he was washing dishes or something, and I was like, "Oh, this is why I love you!"

My husband texted it to me. He is extremely shy.

My fiance told me he loved me on our first official date but we had been very close friends for a few years before then- we were in the movie theater about to watch Apocalypse (bad movie!) but it was super sweet and so unexpected. I had realized a few days before I was in love with him too, while I was walking through the metro in Paris and he always makes jokes that I loved him in the metro. I didn't tell him I loved him though until a few weeks later, it was my first time saying those words and I was too nervous so I waited!

Aww, all of these stories are so cute

We were lying in bed beside each other and though we were getting close, we didn't quite know where we were going or whether we had a future together. I suddenly said earnestly: '(his name), I know we are not sure what we're going to do or whether we'll end up together, I know and understand you are busy with life and want to make completely sure and be settled mentally before you commit to anybody, but for now we are together and we are each other's special person, and I do think I love you right now..'.
His response was a moment of silence and then a crushing, passionate, hot kiss and embrace! (He hasn't said it back but told me later that he's just not good with expressing his feelings through words and if I would please understand that he did feel the same way. Good enough for me! )

My husband was the first and only man significant other I've ever said it to. I told him over the phone when we were in the middle of a 3 year stint apart. He was uncomfortable and taken aback at first, but he came around . Now we both say it all the time.

"man significant other" LOL. I meant just significant other...I was going to say man, but I've said I love you to male friends and my brother and my dad and my FIL, etc. etc.

My boyfriend and I had been dating for a couple months, were really into each other, but hadn't said "it" yet. One morning, in the middle of some pretty intense, amazing sex, he just stopped, grabbed my face with his hands, looked me in the eyes, and said it. Although the timing might sound horrible, the look on his face and the way he said it was so priceless and touching. It was like he waited for the perfect moment to tell me- for him, that was it.

He still does it pretty often, even after three years. We'll be all hot and sweaty and he'll stop me and say "I love you so much." I don't know... there's just something about being in that passionate moment and know that he's feeling that connection/thinking about more than just getting laid. It's cute.

I felt in love with my boyfriend about 2 weeks after I met him. I just felt for him SO easily and quick I was scared so I didn't tell him anything. A few days after, we were talking online, with webcams on, and when I told him I had to go to bed, he said 'Rossina' and I just looked at the monitor, looked at him, and he said 'I am falling for you so hard... I love you'
I thought he was playing and I just smiled, and he added 'And I'm sure you're the girl I want to spend the rest of forever with'.
We've been together ever since and every single text message he sends me at night or to wake me up, end up with 'I love you bubs' [yea he calls me bubs hahaa so Aussie-like, I adore it]. &&& of course... I don't even have to say that I love him too

0danielle0 that is pure sexiness!

OH MAN! My husband and my story is hilarious and kind of embarrassing. I was down at his school visiting for a few days, and one night he, myself and a few of his friends decided to have some drinks at his apartment. He made some orangesicle type blended beverages, which were pretty tasty. I was trying to keep up with the boys, and before I knew it was beyond intoxicated (not one of my finest moments). His friends left and I stumbled into the bathroom to vomit. He held my hair back, got me water, and comforted me while I puked into his toilet. I felt horrible, and kept apologizing for making a fool out of myself. Then, all of a sudden he blurted out of nowhere "I love you." I was shocked and said "If you don't mean it don't say it." HA! Way to ruin the moment! I didn't say it back until a few days later. So yeah, he first told me he loved me while holding my hair back while I puked into his potty. AH! ; P

i think its just something you just blurt out, you can't plan what you feel. When you know your in love, you know it and you just say the words "I love you" to them, love is a fickle thing, but its something every girl longs for, the right man who will love you back, i don't think anyone can plan it, its a really spontaneous thing but when you do say it it will be so natural, when i said it, i was kinda worried that i shouldn't have said it, but when he looked at me and said "i love you too" i knew he meant it

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he was on the phone with a friend and when he got off i said "i love sarah york" (his friends name) then i looked at him and said "love you....oh sh*t" and hid under the covers.it was a total slip up but i am glad i said it

HAHA about 3 months after I started dating my fiance (we were both working at domino's at the time) I was leaving and I decided i had to tell him. So I ran up to him, and whispered it in his ear, kissed his cheek...AND THEN I RAN TO MY CAR AND LEFT! lol. He called me shortly after and said it back hahaha. Neither one of us has ever forgotten that moment!

I'll share the happy one...I had to lie a few times to save hurt feelings and they do too

Anyway, many moons ago I was dating a guy for 9 months and neither of us said I love you. It wasn't necessary I guess. We just accepted how we felt and didn't say it. Anyway, summer started and I had to go away to cheerleading camp on my birthday and he gave me my present. It was a gold 'A' initial ring and he said, look underneath the cotton...I did, and there was a $50 dollar bill folded underneath. I was so shocked (he was very cheap you guys) I had tears in my eyes and smiling and he looked over while driving and said...'I know you need it. I love you. I don't want you to go to camp broke.'
That was the last time hearing it was felt. All the others, including my ex-husband and other feeble attempts have never measured up.

My current boyfriend and I have not yet exchanged these words. We've been dating for about 5 months now. I've been trying to get the courage to tell him. the other night we were laying in bed talking....I dont remember what we were talking about but he said "I think its pretty obvious that Ive completely fallen for you" I didnt say anything back because I was caught off gaurd and really didnt know what to say...I kinda feel like an ass becaues that would have been a pretty good opurtunity to let him know how I feel and hes super shy so Im sure it took alot for him to even say that much!

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girl in my opinion, there isnt ONE good oportunity to tell the one you love that you love them, every minute is a great oportunity to say it, so if you want to and really feel that you love him, i say go for it! if he's shy and told you that [which is soo cute when they tell you theyre in love with you!] i'm sure he'll love hearing that from you

My DH told me he loved me after we had dated for about 3 months. We were cuddling in his bed and he said as he was kissing my head. I acted like I didn't hear him just so he would repeat it (I know, what a B*&@h!). I didn't tell him I loved him though until 2 months later because I didn't feel I was ready to say it and didn't want to say it just because he had. Poor guy! However, I said the words when we were laying on the beach in Mexico looking at the stars. He asked what I was thinking about and I told him, "I'm thinking I love you too..."

6 months

But we'd been really good friends for 3 years before we started dating, too.

My boyfriend and I had been friends for awhile before we dated, and then exactly two months into our relationship I knew I loved him but refused to say it first. He wasn't saying it, so I was frustrated. There were so many times I thought he was going to say it but it never happened.
One day we were at a party and I had a good amount to drink and was sick of the situation; it seemed unfair if I was in love and he wasn't (The logic doesn't make sense to me now either). Anyway, he was telling me he cared about me, and I said "Not as much as I care about you." We got into a psuedo/stupid fight, ending in my saying goodnight and walking away while we were on the street.
He was so perplexed, that he grabbed my hand, spun me around, and yelled [name], I love you!" I wasn't sure he was really serious, so I asked him what he'd said, and he said it again.

People on the street clapped.

We went out to dinner with two of my best friends from high school, and then back to his house for cuddling and kissing in bed. In the middle he broke off and had his strange smile on his face and said "I love you." The way he said it sounded like a confession, like it was just dawning on him and he like NEEDED to tell me. It was so sincere and earnest and made my heart skip a beat. Led to some pretty amazing, passionate sex too

We don't say it that often even though we've been together for two years, but when he does say it I still get that skippy-heartbeat feeling

Love it when he says it during sex, too. He always has that smile and sincerity.

We'd been dating a week...maybe known each other two weeks? It was really fast, and if anyone else I knew told me the same story, I'd tell them they were crazy. I caught myself almost saying it several times and one night we were lying in bed and I said something along the lines of, "I know it's too soon and too fast, but I think I love you." Luckily, instead of saying I was crazy, he agreed and said he felt the same way... it must be for real though, because we've been together for four years now and I still feel so lucky to be with him =)

It had been about 2 1/2 months since my boyfriend and I started dating and we were laying on my couch. We were just laying around not really saying much but he started stroking my face and he was telling me different parts about me that he likes (eyes, laugh, etc.) and then he just came out and said "I think I love you" and I felt the same way so we were in this like half love state for about 3 days until we were walking to get coffee one morning and he just said "I know it. I love you" and I said it back.

It was cute.

It's the first time I've ever been in love and we've been together for 6 months now.

My ex and I were out drinking with friends about 2-3 weeks after we started dating. He turned to me and said "I love you, I know it's soon, but I know how I feel." I was kind of taken aback because I wasn't quite there. as with everything in our relationship, he was kind of intense and I had to speed myself up because he got very upset that I didn't say it back. I did the next day, but I still wasn't sure. I eventually loved him very much and we were together for three years - nearly got engaged, lived together for a long time, but I'd never call him "the One". Well, I met the One over the summer after our breakup. I knew I was in love with him after a few days (though I'd known him as a friend for 5 years, I hadn't seen him in 4). I haven't said anything, but I knew then that he was not only "it" but also the man I was going to marry. I've never *ever* in my life fallen that hard and fast and *never* had an intuition like that. I still haven't said anything, but our relationship has developed and he's definitely on the same wavelength. We've even said "forever" to each other, but I think we're both waiting until we see each other next week in Scotland to take the big step... but I'm not going to say *anything* until I'm positive it will be reciprocated.

It was 8 months into the relationship. I, like a lot of you guys here, was in bed cuddling and stuff. It was a very awkward moment and I knew he was about to say it. It took him like 15 minutes to finally get it out. I said it back but didn't truly mean it. I was just afraid of hurting his feelings.

Anyways, we broke up just a few months later. I'll never say the L word again until I really mean it. That's not a word you throw around.

Ok these stories are really cute! Why oh why won't my boyfriend say it???

I noticed on my phone that I had 3 missed calls and my boyfriend checked his. No missed calls. So he says "No one loves me" and I reply, "But I love you Reid" *Big puppy eyes*. He looked deeply into my eyes and said, "I love you so much Annali".

He turns me into a puddle of love every time I think of him.

Wow pinkhearted that's so like my story!

I'd met my bf only a few months before, we'd hung out for less than a month and only dated a few weeks when we were lying in bed late at night and he was half asleep when he mumbled "I can't wait to tell you how much I love you" and then fell asleep cuddling me. A few weeks later he told me properly and said he hadn't told me earlier because he didn't want to scare me off! I don't usually jump into things so quickly but just like pinkhearted we are 4 years in and so so happy!

My boyfriend told me he loved me when he told me he wanted me to be his girlfriend. 5 years ago yesterday, actually. It was an amazing, intimate, intense moment that I'll never forget.

My boyfriend and I started dating at the beginning of March, and he decided to say it on April 1...April Fool's Day!!! This was after he'd just got done telling me that his dad was transferring to a job and they were moving like 9 hours away, as a joke, and then he goes nah...April Fool's...I couldn't move that far, because I love you!
I didn't believe him though. So he said it everyday everytime he saw me relentlessly for the next week and a half, until finally I believed him, and said it back!

I must say I never knew the value put on those three words before reading these stories. My boyfriend could have said 'I need you' and it means just as much if not more to me. I realize that I'm a little different as to how I think of the words I Love You. I learned something.
I know there's a guy who does love me very much and he doesn't have to say a word. But he loves me diligently everyday.(too long to tell) And I do everything I can to love him back. I hope he feels it.
(we are very far apart...not in miles, but in lifestyles)
Hey, Lenny, here's me...loving you

My boyfriend definitely said it first. I kept telling him"Stop it! It's too early! I can't say it back yet!".... lol
Eventually I did say it back and now we are one of those disgustingly mushy couples who say it all the time!

Unfortunately I'm not one of you lucky ladies. I had told my guy that I wanted out because I didn't want to continue something in which I wasn't valued, he ended up saying it on our last day together. Next morning we decided to be "friends" and we still are though now I know that he never really loved or maybe never will. I don't think I'll ever say it again, its not worth the pain.

My bf and I had been officially together two weeks, and actually one week into our relationship I had to go to Baltimore for business for 2 weeks, so one week into the trip (and two weeks into being "together") he said it over text. I wish I had it saved but I've changed phones since then. And actually, he'd originally said "Love ya"-- something in between "I like you" and "I love you" I suppose. He said it every night until one night he had texted "Love you" and I texted back, "Love.... you????" and he texted back something like "Yep, I love you." I didn't say it back until I got home.

To say that to someone means so much, and it has so much depth and I think that a lot of people take that for granted. It took my boyfriend and I quite awhile to actually say it to each other. When I really love someone, I love them completely for good and bad... So its not something that comes easily.. Even if it doesn't work out.. If you love someone you always will so Those are very strong words to use too soon I think.

About 3 months into the relationship we'd had a lovely day out cycling around a local lake and it had been really awesome. I could see in his eyes that he felt that way towards me but was too nervous to say it. He doesn't express his emotions often... at all... ;p

So that night we were just about to go to sleep and I turned over and went "oh by the way" "what?" "I've fallen in love with you" and there was a slight pause and he turns round and says "I've loved you for a long time" (we've been friends over 2 years) and it was just outright adorable. Now he tells me he loves me all the time.

I still get that happy warm feeling thinking about it. A couple months into our relationship I was getting really freaked out by how intense my feelings were (First relationship ever, at 18), and I wrote him this huge long letter and gave it to him when he took me home one night. I didn't say anything directly though. About two weeks later around 1am we were cuddling on his bed after watching a couple episodes of firefly and he gave me the most tender look I have ever seen. He kissed me and just said 'I think I'm in love with you.' We most of the night holding each other and kissing. That was one of the most romantic nights we've spent
That was about two years ago now and we're still in love

A very long time ago...my bfriend and I were making out in his little piece of crap car and the windows were all fogged up. I wrote on the window I LOVE U. He wrote I LOVE U2. I thought it was so sweet. When I actually said it he said "No, I love the band." I can't believe we are still friends:)

My high school boyfriend and I were just laying on the couch, cudding, watching a movie.
When (very randomly, I must add) he looked me in the eye, kissed me, and whispered "I love you."
Completely perfect.

my bf said it first in a random text. it was sweet, even over text. and then a month or two later he said it in person. he yelled it at me, when we were fighting. that shut me up and i think the argument ended there.

I know this is so insanely late, but I knew I loved my boyfriend the second I even spoke to him. He did to. One day, after a few months of knowing each other, he called me, and we talked, and he just blurted out "I'm in love with you." That was the first day we were together, too. It's been 2 years, and going strong.

the first time my boyfriend said he loved me was in a text message. it was kinda funny tho. we were sitting in my driveway with a few friends and we were texting across a bonfire and he said " I think i'm in love with you" right in the middle of a stupid "texting war".

We decided to be spontaneous and trespassed onto our 'spot' where some corporate clones decided to build a shopping center at. It was the last time we would be able to go there...you can see the whole entire city and the lights at night...and he grabbed my hand and said, "I think you should know something." I remember my stomach dropped because I thought he was breaking up with me, but to my relief his cheeks got all red and he said, "I love you, and I love how you can climb a fence and put up with all the bullsh*t I give out. If we get arrested I'm sorry." I stared at him for a good few minutes, and of course started to tear up. I buried my face in his jacket so he wouldn't see me start to cry and told him how much I loved him. Soon after the damn military sent him to Iraq, but he's always gonna be my first love. I can't wait to see him again.