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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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DancingDora · 02/04/2017 22:34

I don't like "I love you too." So I always say "I love you" and DH will say "I love you". No idea why, I just don't like the "too" on the end.

Sometimes we reply with "I know." But we're huge Star Wars fans Blush

SingingGoldfinch · 02/04/2017 22:35

Twee maybe but does it really do you any harm if other people use this phrase. It's entirely well meaning and has lovely sentiments. I think it's a bit harsh to damn it completely. We use it in our family - not sure where it started from but it has now become 'love you to the moon and back and a hundred and fifty thousand' it makes absolutely no sense and others probably think it's sick-making but it means something to us and frankly I don't care what other people think about our private family sayings!

PetallyTyrants · 02/04/2017 22:35

Yanbu.

Also, I never get the 'making memories'. I can never remember a bleeding thing.

thebakerwithboobs · 02/04/2017 22:37

How about, "love you all the world"

Yep, I came on to add this! It doesn't even make grammatical, let alone logical, sense!

switswoo81 · 02/04/2017 22:37

I used to think the love you forever book ( Robert Munsch) was the strangest thing but the story behind it is very sad.

BillyButtfuck · 02/04/2017 22:37

Luchi that is such a lovely photo. I don't mind it, I love the book millions.

maddiemookins16mum · 02/04/2017 22:38

The usual miserable MN unloved women, men haters (or women), pffttttt. It's a phrase for gawd sake.

Mikethenight2good · 02/04/2017 22:39

YANBU.

Rumtopf · 02/04/2017 22:41

I love it. When dd was small that was one of her favourite books so I'd end with "I love you to the moon and back" and give her a big kiss, she'd reply with "and I love you all around the universe, stars and sun" and kiss me.
She was 3, now she's a stroppy hormonal 14yr old I'm happy to look back on phrases like that.

Coastalcommand · 02/04/2017 22:41

I hate the words 'yummy' and 'nom nom nom'. And 'methinks'. And 'simples'.

IfYouGoDownToTheWoodsToday · 02/04/2017 22:41

What!!

I read that book to my 2dds about 20 years ago and it's still common usage In our family.
It makes my heart go ping when they say it to me.

CoffeeAndEnnui · 02/04/2017 22:42

When DD was a baby she loved me tracing Round and Round the Garden on her palm. But after a few month nightly repetition made me start to lose the plot. So I improvised my own version, tracing the infinity sign on her palm and riffing on I Love You to the Moon and Back.

It became our special goodnight and she still regularly asks for a "Moon and Back goodnight" at 6 and recites it along with me. To this day I've never read The Nut Brown Hare so fuck knows where I got the idea!

IfYouGoDownToTheWoodsToday · 02/04/2017 22:43

I realise my last sentence will probably make the OP feel nauseous Grin

FishInAWetSuitAndFlippers · 02/04/2017 22:44

My 15yo used to say it to me, now he answers my declarations of love for him with 'and I have a fond regard for you too Mother' Grin

If rather be loved to the moon and back.

CoffeeAndEnnui · 02/04/2017 22:44

*few months the nightly repetition

maddiemookins16mum · 02/04/2017 22:44

The first few (several) posts of this thread just sound so bitter and then you get rumtopf 😊

Ohyesiam · 02/04/2017 22:47

Personally I like Love you to Uranus and backGrinWink

OvariesBeforeBrovaries · 02/04/2017 22:48

Haha the "I'll love you forever" book is majorly creepy but it stuck for us Blush every night before DD goes to bed we say "We'll like you for always, we'll love you forever, as long as we're living, our baby you'll be" Blush Grin

She won't go to sleep without us saying it now though so I'll be damned if I'll sacrifice my sleep for the sake of a stalkerish origin Grin

Tunnocksmallow · 02/04/2017 22:50

YANBU this phrase really makes me cringe and I don't know why.
Although when I was young, my mum used to say "love you more than all the sugar in Sainsbury's" these days she'd be accused of promoting childhood obesity.

TheMysteriousJackelope · 02/04/2017 22:50

'Love her to bits'
'Love her to pieces'
'Love the very bones of her'

Also make me think of slasher movies and bunny boilers. Creepy, weird and twee in three annoying little packages.

I quite liked the Nutbrown Hare book though.

Has anyone read 'The Worst' books? Those are great if you are feeling cynical, or have cynical children.

DonaldStott · 02/04/2017 22:51

she's my world vom

It's quite a scouse thing to say. But scousers say more like 'that geerls me weerld', usually when pissed.

Sandyfeet101 · 02/04/2017 22:51

My sister and I used to say to our Dad "I love you 20 bits and all the other bits" when we were little.

DragonNoodleCake · 02/04/2017 22:54

My DD2 says 'I love you to the moon, the sun and the stars and back 20 times' she's 5, she's trying to explain the biggest amount she can think of, it's adorable.

Lovetunnocks · 02/04/2017 22:58

Yes, hate it, it makes my teeth itch. But what I hate more is 'when someone describes someone else as their 'rock'. I don't know why but that phrase makes me feel properly violent. It's so over-used that it's utterly meaningless and gives me the rage.

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 02/04/2017 23:04

AllPizzasGreatAndSmall Sun 02-Apr-17 22:32:12
Surely children would only say it if they have had parents say it to them quite a lot.

I never did, not even sure where DD picked it up from. Although I have said it back to her since she said it to me.

But then again, this is also the girl who glared at her Dad and did that 2 finger pointy action from to her eyes then to him and told him he better watch himself as she was watching him. Also no idea where she picked that one up. She was rather serious and 6ft 2 rugby playing DH actually looked rather nervous