AIBU?
To be PISSED OFF WITH MY HUSBAND for saying I love you to bits?
ScaryScaryNight · 27/10/2007 23:42
I LOVE YOU TO BITS?
WTF?
That is something a friend says about another friend, when there is something wrong, like in:
I love her to bits, BUT really she is wy out of line on this one and she should just shut up now. Or something.
Or, is "I love you to bits" something passionate you expect your husband to say?
So I am asking you my fine ladies: what is the meaning of "I love you to bits".
choosyfloosy · 27/10/2007 23:50
I'd agree that it's frequently used in the same kinds of sentences that include the words 'I'm not being a racist but...'
but if your husband is just saying 'i love you to bits' i think that's quite lovely
i must say i have never heard a man using it in the 'i hate the crazy cow' sense, so perhaps he just heard it somewhere and liked it
ScaryScaryNight · 27/10/2007 23:51
I get your point Veni (good to see you btw). But, it is hardly passionate. But, after nearly 15 years together who needs passion?
MOI! I do!
I love you to bits is nice. But it means I dont rock his world. I thought I put him through enough emotional crap with my primadonna tantrums to warrant something more than just " I love you to bits."
Now, I held him to that and he changed it to
"I love you to terraflops".
who can beat that?
Bocoreepy · 27/10/2007 23:54
I think it's nice. I see what you mean, kind of, but surely you can be loved to bits and loved in a passionate way at the same time - it's not totally exclusive, it's affectionate and sweet, there's a place for sweet affectionate, even in a rock your world type of thing.
harpsicorpsecarrier · 27/10/2007 23:59
I get you scary
I wouldn't like it either, it just doesn't have the right tone somehow.
still I bet he is really really trying.
maybe you could give him some skeleton notes to help
an ex of mine once said:
be yourself, there's no one nicer
I shit you not.
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