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

[hickorydickorynurseryrhyme]

Just find it irritating

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

("but... but... it doesn't make sense, Mr Cummings!")

People have every right not to like that poem as well. Again, this would not make any children sad.

They could also like the poem and not the thing about the moon, or vice versa, without it causing any emotional trauma to anyone who had any fondness for either.

It's almost as if people were allowed to have opinions about things, isn't it multivac?

I'm not massively keen on the "to the moon and back" thing because I don't see love like that - I kind of imagine it wrapped around the person, not stretching away into the distance.

You lot want to try having a space obsessed Aspie in the house. The youngest NT one has started with "Love you more than there are grains of sand and more than there are stars and planets". Obviously the Aspie doesnt quantify love.

Any saying you see printed on a bit of driftwood in a platitude-filled 'gift' shop, I hate.

YANBU - it seems to be the latest phrase that some people want to say. Horrible. American sounding rubbish.

Hmm. Are words conveying love ever the wrong words?! Seems a bit off to criticise how people say I love you.
And to the PP saying her DSD and her mother say this and it makes her 'vom' in her mouth, I think that is out of order personally. How dare someone judge the way a mother tells her daughter she loves her. Love is love. The rest are words that no one should have the right to criticise.

I love my kids almost as much as Peter Andre loves his?
brilliant

'Happy Birthday Moon' is the story of a young bear who falls in love with the moon as it's the most important object in Bear's universe after Bear's parents, light bulbs and the shopping centre near Mcdonalds.

Bear wants to gift the Moon, the newly discovered light, a present for its birthday - a hat.

Bear effectively walks the imaginary world in order to give the Moon the present that represents the love Bear feels.

Eventually Bear hears the echo of Bear's mission as the hat fits both the Moon and Bear; therefore putting time and distance into perspective.

Happy Birthday Moon.
Happy Birthday Bear.

In its way it's a way to show small children that the universe is bigger than Wigan.

My daughter loves me to the post office and back, and once to Donald Trump and back

Totally agree with you OP. Can't stand the phrase and I've only ever heard it as an adult so don't understand why it's suddenly so ubiquitous! I've seen baby grows with it on FFS

I think it's because people use it as though it's "their special phrase" when it's so common that it's not very special at all!

It reminds me of a friend who said "Every single child called Molly...is also called "Molly Moo" by her parents"

Now she's said that I realise it's true!

I hate "love your guts". It just sounds so horrible!

Suzie it's from a popular kid's book. Something about a Nut Brown Hare.

Never read it to my DC as it seemed repetative.

multivac I love that one.

You lot would find DD2's and my goodnight routine either charming and hilarious or completely nauseating, depending

Me: Night night, love you
DD2: Love you too
Me: Love you more
DD2: Love you most!

Then we have to do it the other way around so I get to go last and say the "Love you most" part.

DD2: You da best
Me: Budapest
DD2: Budapest
Me: You da best

No idea where that came from. Although I did live in Budapest for a couple of years in my 20's.

THEN (it ends soon, I promise), we need to do the bedbugs rhyme. For this one it doesn't matter who starts:

Me or her: Goodnight, sleep tight
Her or me: Don't let the bed bugs bite
Etc: and if they do
Take your shoe
And beat them till they're black and blue
And flush them down the loo
Woo-hooooo!

And then finally I say "Goodnight my beautiful girl" and she says "Goodnight my beautiful mum"

Not one word of deviation is allowed.

She's almost 11

I fucking hate that Love You Forever book. I'll probably lose my Canadian citizenship for saying so.

Robert Munsch did write the extremely brilliant Paper Bag Princess though, so I will forgive him.

"'Excuse the mess, the children are making memories..!"

FFS, clean your house."

My pet hate is 'I love you to bits' - just like the 'I love you to death comment', why do you need to love someone so much you hurt/kill them?!
I just stick with 'I love you'!

Is it hurting anyone? No. FFS.

Bunty things don't have to hurt anyone to be irritating.

YANBU. Twee, trite and unimaginative.

Aw.

Me and DP say this to each other. Well, we don't. He texts me a half moon emoji, and I text him back the other half

He used to be a big tough guy 'til he met me

I agree, annoying and unimaginative

Gosh, I came on to this thread feeling like an angry, bitter, twisted and hate filled person.
But now I have seen that so many people get angry and hateful about expressions of love, I realise that I am a balanced and calm person in comparison.
Thanks mumsnet. I genuinely feel better and cheered up 😀