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To hate the phrase love you to the moon and back?

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hickorydickorynurseryrhyme · 02/04/2017 21:39

Just find it irritating

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PunkrockerGirl · 02/04/2017 22:08

YANBU.
It's right up there with 'making memories', 'what's up hun' and other such cliched shite. I've blocked the smug, stupid posters who 'love their children to the moon and back'. Twats.

reuset · 02/04/2017 22:08

Very twee. Agree.

DontLetMeBeMisunderstood · 02/04/2017 22:11

Mamabamadingdong - I've always thought that about that book too, the big rabbit just won't let the small rabbit win even one will it? Reminds me of 'competitive dad' from the Fast Show Grin

Mind, that bunny isn't as bad as the mother from 'I'll love you forever' - taking a bus across town so that you can sneak into your adult son's bedroom, and sing at him while he sleeps, is the stuff of nightmares.

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 02/04/2017 22:11

My 7 year old dd always tells me she loves me to the moon and back. (well, actually more like she says "love you to the moon, round the moon 1 billion times and back" She is being as honest and heartfelt as her little 7 year old heart can manage.

Surely anyway, it is a phrase you get children saying and hence parents saying back? Cannot imagine adults saying it to each other. I really doubt a phrase used mostly by young children can be described as "twee" or "sick making" or "cringe".

Tidypidy · 02/04/2017 22:11

I hate 'love you millions' too, just makes no sense!

TheNaze73 · 02/04/2017 22:12

YANBU. It's nauseating

ditzychick34 · 02/04/2017 22:12

I hate "I love you more", no, you can't quantify love. Although I did have it thrown at me by an ex, and it was true Blush

CaoNiMartacus · 02/04/2017 22:16

"Love the bones of her" is bad. I always imagine the object of said love as one of those scientific display skeletons.

Likewise "She's my world". I picture the speaker embracing a huge inflatable globe.

(Perhaps i take things too literally...)

HotSince82 · 02/04/2017 22:18

Personally I have no beef with any expression of love.

And truthfully its cos the proles have commandeered it isn't it?

Be honest now you're bristling at the soppy WC hyperbole aren't you?

I vaguely suppose that its much naicer to simply state 'I love you' that should be enough, right?

Those commoners always pissing glitter and aeronautical distances all over their feelings, give me strength FFS 😎

LuchiMangsho · 02/04/2017 22:19

Awww. You heartless cynical souls! DS1 loves that book and I recently gave birth to DS2 who was a micro preemie and spent 10 weeks in hospital. DS1 wasn't allowed to visit because of winter infection rules so he made this which the nurses stuck to the top of the incubator for DS2

PS I actually agree it's twee and overused!

To hate the phrase love you to the moon and back?
Bibs2014 · 02/04/2017 22:21

I hate it too!!

Mamabamadingdong · 02/04/2017 22:21

DontLetMeBeMisunderstood Reminds me of 'competitive dad' from the Fast Show Ha! Exactly!

EnglishGirlApproximately · 02/04/2017 22:24

gizlots that's what we do. It's normally something good we've eaten that day so it's a bit random! Tonight DS loves me more than cheese, chocolate and fish pie Grin

Starlight2345 · 02/04/2017 22:25

oooh you would of been mortified in our house tonight..

My DS loves me to the moon and back, through galaxiess to the deepest ocean, round the world 3 times and pick up a Chinese on the way home..

MeadowDream · 02/04/2017 22:25

Haha I thought it was just me! It doesn't annoy me as much as love you lots like jelly tots!! Makes me cringe!!

AliceByTheMoon · 02/04/2017 22:27

My DS said to me today; 'I quite like you mummy. But I really love Daddy!'.

Grin

Thankfully I am secure enough to just laugh. :)

MeadowDream · 02/04/2017 22:27

In fairness it's not kids saying it that annoys me, it's couples saying it to each other on Facebook. Ewww Hmm

AliceByTheMoon · 02/04/2017 22:28

Oh Luchi I just teared up at your photo!

mistermagpie · 02/04/2017 22:31

DontLetMe - me and DH were arguing (lightheartedly) about that creepy as fuck mum in 'love you forever' just the other day. DH thinks it's a lovely and sweet book and it makes him quite emotional, I think that the mum is a creepy son-stalker who can't let go. I'm right obviously. That book is seriously disturbing.

AllPizzasGreatAndSmall · 02/04/2017 22:32

Surely children would only say it if they have had parents say it to them quite a lot.

Babyroobs · 02/04/2017 22:32

YANBU.

justwhatineed · 02/04/2017 22:32

"Love you millions!" Of what? No, just no! Makes me cringe Aaaargh Angry

Thinkingblonde · 02/04/2017 22:33

My grandson (6) said to me one day' Do you know how much I love you Grandma?
I love you more than a fortune. (He knows a fortune means a lot)

A bit of water leaked from my eyes.

piefacedClique · 02/04/2017 22:33

Messages from DSDs mother to DSD always end with that! Makes me vom in my mouth!

Sedona123 · 02/04/2017 22:34

😁 Starlight.

My DS usually "just" loves me to the moon and back, but sometimes it's also to the end of the universe and back, or to infinity and beyond and back, plus various other variations too.