To really hate the trend for "Bye, Love You" at the end of a call?

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It just seems to downgrade the meaning of "I love you" completely. It's almost like saying "take care" or "see you later".



My DPs father has always said it to him at the end of a call for as long as I can remember. He likes to think that if anything bad might happen to him, his last words to his son will always be something loving.

Why should ‘I love you’ be expensive? Why can’t I say it multiple times a day to multiple people as long as I mean it?

I don’t like overuse of ‘I love you’

How sad for you that you think this way.

Well it's a 30 year trend so far from me. Tend not to say it to the ppi and broadband calls though - save it for the takeaway pizza staff, obvs.

My mum has always said she loves me at the end of phonecalls. And has regularly told me that she loves me all my life. I’m not sure this is a trend, since she’s been doing it for nearly 40 years. Or maybe she’s a trendsetter and none of us have ever realised it.

I regularly tell the people that I love that I love them. And I show them that I love them by doing things for/with them and being kind and caring. It definitely does not cheapen it. I mean it and it’s nice to share it when you love people, in as many ways as you want to.

I had an ex (together a decade) who never told me that he loved me. That because he never did. In fact, I’m not sure he’s capable of experiencing love.

I do that's occasionally not every time, but I don't think my 18 year old DD would ever spontaneously tell me she loves me if it wasn't for this, and its how she often also signs off text and other messages, particularly if she wants something, so i'm afraid I am also in the.. I love this category of people.

I only ever use it to dd who is currently living away from home for college.

My family do this on the phone all ages and generations and we always have done.

Same as we always say love you good night.

Wouldnt say its a trend. Wasnt aware this was something people didnt do?

Most of my friends do too. We always tell each other we love each other. Because we do so.

I think OP is referring to Radio 1. Scott Mills and his callers say it and I think Nick Grimshaw does too?

DH and I always end our phone calls like that, even if I know I'll be seeing him in 5 minutes when we get home.

I tell my beloved nephew I love him more, because he always tells me he loves me (He's 12, so will be stopping soon)

I tell my dog I love him every night when I put him to bed.

I tell my friends I love them when I say bye, but only in person, not on the phone.

It's not a trend. It's the truth.

I always presumed the Scott mills thing was meant in a gimicky jokey way like a catchphrase. Even if it's not it's hardly something to get worked up over unless you are planning to ring in. OP are you taking part in the where was I conceived game?

I say it to all my family at the end of any phone conversation or visit . I'm well aware that one day , those might be the last words I say to someone, and I'm damned sure that they will know I love them.

We're always tell g each other we live each other in my house. Far better than only hearing it once in a blue moon, but usually followed by a 'but' and a lecture on how I'd disappointed my parents this time

You'd hate DS2 - he's a six year old total chatterbox who feels the need to narrate his every waking (and often sleeping) thought. He tells me he loves me many times each day and once told me, 'Muuuuummm? You know when I'm talking and I just say I love you to you? Well that's because I can't think of what to say next but I want to keep talking' He did then say 'But it's alright, because I do really really love you lots all the time so I just want you to know that as well.'

Argh, I had to factory reset my phone and now it keeps inserting random words and mispelling everything.

My ex used to tell me off for saying I loved him too much because “the more you say it, the less it means”. Bollocks. Love is love no matter how many times you express it, and there is nothing bad that can come from repeatedly telling people you love them.

Miserable fuckers

I find this whole 'it might be the last thing I ever say' really fatalistic and bizarre. I can't imagine going through life thinking like that.

RiverTam dp & i never go to bed on an argument. Because if one of us doesn't wake up we would regret it. Doesn't have am active impact on my life...i don't go to bed worrying he might die.

I think it's pretty obvious the OP isn't talking about loved ones (DH, DPs, DCs etc)

Yes, OP. I noticed this among younger girls (mainly aimed at friends and even vague acquaintances).

I'm Latin and very expressive, but I draw the line at saying "I love you" to the girl who does my waxing.

but obviously you do. I mean, I agree it's good not to go to bed on an argument, but not because it's potentially the last thing we'll ever say to each other!

I say it to certain people who I actually do love but have noticed myself almost coming out with it when ending phone calls to all sorts of people, purely unintentionally, of course.

I dread the day it happens when I finish a phone conversation to someone at my bank, for instance, and say it. I know one day it'll happen if I'm not careful, and then I'll have to go into hiding for the rest of my life.

Trend?

I have never heard anyone i wasnt related to or having sexual relations with say that

Is it something your friends do?

It's that missing "I" that does it for me. Why not say, "I love you"? It's so lazy. Mind you, I can't stand, "Enjoy!" I always want to say, "Enjoy what?"

I'm trying to recall who said this to me, but someone more than an acquaintance but short of a good friend said it to me recently and I was thoroughly stunned.

I'm not a great one for saying 'I love you' to anyone outside of my husband and children. I just don't feel moved to it very often, if at all.