The ''L'' Word - when did you say it to your DP/DH?

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First timer here but been a lurker for a while!

I have been with my boyfriend for about 6 weeks now and its all been amazing! We met at a car park where he pretended not to have asked for change and I ended up giving him my 50p! We bumped into each other twice on the same day at the same shopping mall so he 'bought me coffee' to pay me back and we have been together since!

Last night, he said the 'L' word! but i didn't say it back. I am so so in love but I wanted to have my moment ifykwim.

Curious to know how soon you told your DP/DH

He said it after a couple of weeks and I said it back straight away. My husband moved 400 miles for me after knowing me a month. he got his top posting in the forces but swapped it to come with me. He left all his family and friends and then he proposed after 10 weeks. Married after a year and a half and we have been married 7 years now.

We were so cheesy when we met it makes us laugh now. I put every card and letter on the wall and made a love wall that covered our entire wall in the forces block room. We used to go to the spar and buy each other cards and give them to each other at lunch when we worked at the same place and only hadnt seen each other since breakfast. Haha young love

I love romance! I used to make really cheesy cd compilations for dh. I found one a few years ago, it wouldn't play, probably a good thing. We said it at about 4 weeks in and we still say it a lot.

DP risked his career for me, that was nice. They didn't care though, 21 and 29 is hardly inappropriate. His XW wasn't best pleased at me being former student but I really couldn't give a damn.

My lovely neice is in quite a new relationship and she emailed me this week and I just think it was so romantic. Her mum (my sister) died so we are really close and she has had a horrible time, not just losing her mum but taking up with an abusive alcoholic who she has a child by. (He died through his addiction.) So, she is due some good luck in her life. The new boyfriend and her have known each other a year but have only been dating since December. She was a bit worried that they hadn't done the "deed" but she emailed this week saying, deed done, he didn't want to make love until he had told her how he feels about her. She finished her email off by simply saying, I love him auntie. It makes me want to weep I'm so happy for her as he is a lovely genuine chap. Sorry about the length of my post but I wanted to tell her story!

I said it mid- shag a couple of months in. He didn't say it back to me for months, not because he didn't love me but because he'd never said to anyone and felt weird about it. I think I felt it on the first night I met him though, it was overwhelming. He says he felt it before he'd even spoken to me (he'd been admiring me for months from afar but was too shy to say anything)

My DH and I had a bit of a shaky start, we were young and not that keen to commit. However we both knew we really liked each other but were determined not to say the L word. So we used to leave little notes around with random L words on to tease each other! Anyway the short story is we finally got together properly about 6 months later and now say it lots!