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".

Losing my dad last year was hell. He dropped dead of a heart attack aged 52. I have many regrets in life but telling my beloved Dad after every chat, that I loved him and knowing they were my last words to him is not one of them.

It's only meaningless if you make it so. I finish every call with DH and DC saying it and every time I leave them. I was also asked by a surgeon last year if I had anything I wanted to say to DH before I was rushed into theatre, still I chose those words. I knew I was very poorly and if I survived I was going on to life support in ICU. I live with a life threatening condition and I can't think of better last words I'd want to say and none of us know when that may be.

I finished a call with a colleague with a "love you!" once. From that time I always told him that whenever we finished a discussion, in person or on the phone
He was a good sport about it.

I kind of agree with the OP.

I’m a fan of saying I love you often. I say I love you to my DC all the time, and pretty often to DH and my mum.

But I say it when I feel it, when the thought that I love them comes into my head.

Saying it at the end of every call means it’s being said automatically - you are saying it because it’s the end of the call, not because you just thought how much you love the other person.

I do think it’s a phrase that should be kept for when you genuinely feel a rush of love. Not an automatic, cut and paste thing.

I say it to close family members only and mean it.
Not sure what the issue is?

YABU

My parents never told me they loved me, I was deprived of love growing up. No affection, nothing. Nada, tipota.

I love having happy, huggy friends who tell me they love me . I hug and kiss them back and tell them I love them.

We have so many words for some things, lots of nuance, but for love we make one word do a lot of work. We love everything from the child we'd die for to the shoes we'd kill for to the addictions that kill us.

We need more words to cover all the nuances.

Has the world gone mad?!

Who on earth would view this as a trend ?!

I grew up in a large family feeling unloved. No one ever said they loved me and I don't remember being hugged or kissed. Because I don't want my kids to feel like I did I tell them I love them after every phone call and at the end of each visit, same with my grandchildren. I know I'm loved now and my family know they are.

For some reason this reminds me of Donnie Darko. Fear and love!

This made me laugh, my df say I love you more when I say love you. Used to reply love you most, but once it came out as I love you more than most and it's stuck! 

My family always say god bless when hanging up too, even the non practicing. I don't think you can tell a person enough how much you love them. I'd give anything to hear my Nan tell me she loved me again. I tell my DH everyday as I want to remind he is loved. My mother was cruel, she never told me she loved me, if I said it to her she would ask me what do I want. Maybe I say it too much but rather be that way then never say it to the one I love.

Oops! I always end a phone call to family with a " love you" . It seems from.My mum being very ill ( and subsequently dying aged 55) and my DH being in the forces. Sorry if it seems macabre, but I am all too aware of how fragile life is.

Thankfully there are some of you who get it. I am in no way a "misery guts" or do not love my family.

I think it's because everybody needs everybody else to know that they love their partner/children/boss. Just like all those people who do it on Facebook on their wedding anniversary and the like. Just tell them in person, in private. That is all.

Just caught a bit of X Factor. Robbie Williams on the phone to one of his acts chatting about their performance. Ends the call with “bye, love you” to a couple of people he’s working with on a show! FFS.