Tell me about how you first said "I love you" to DP

[SouthernPeach]

I want to hear your stories. Did it just slip out? Was it at the end of a special date or just randomly over breakfast one day?

I'm ready to say it to bf and I know he feels the same (he's already said to me in a round about way), although still a part of me is a little bit scared he won't say it back but I just need to get it out, I've held it back for ages now and I'll say it accidentally soon enough

He'd had a drink or two and we were just chatting at the back door and he just put his arm around me, pulled me to him and I love you.

I never said it back as thought he was tipsy.

The next morning I asked him if he remembered what he'd say and he say yes and I meant it.

I told him about a week later.

Strangely enough we had planned to move in together and hadn't said it. I wasn't worried. I found everything felt so relaxed and easy with him. We were kissing in his car and he said ILY. I didn't say anything back but that was fine. Then he always told me he loved me but I never felt any pressure to respond. One afternoon I lay down on the bed, he came over kissed me and to my surprise the words tumbled out. He just said oh!' He doesn't remember any of this at all which is funny so he definitely wasn't panicked that I wasn't telling him back.

Awh I love a good thread like this.

I’ve just gotten in to a new relationship with a guy who I genuinely know is my twin flame.

I knew I was in love with him from the day I met him, I’d felt like I had loved him for lifetimes. At the time I didn’t realise what it was I just felt very overwhelmed. When he told me, I knew he did anyway he could have kept quiet for months and I would have still known it deep down.

I didn’t say it back (which was okay.) but I’d hidden a note in a jar I’d given him saying that I loved him too and I hoped he knew that, but I wasn’t ready to admit it to myself just yet.

I told him last week after sex 🤣🤣🤣

Me and DH were teenagers when we said it. We'd been together a few months and I was determinedly not saying it (even though I wanted to).

We were messing about and he accidentally hit my arm. I said "ow that hurt" and he said "aw love you" in a sarcastic voice.
It's hard to describe but the whole atmosphere changed and I said "do you?" He took ages to reply then just said "yes I do. I love you" and I was so nervous I burst out laughing I mumbled "me too, I love you too" inbetween giggles.

We both remember it exactly over 15 years on

I honestly have no idea! I really don’t remember (been together 10 years, married for 7). I do remember drunkenly telling him on a night out that I was sure he didn’t think we were serious enough to call me his girlfriend (we’d been seeing each other probably 5 nights a week for 3 months, so were quite serious actually but had never actually discussed the future at that point). He told me that, of course, he did. I got a request on Facebook to update our relationship status about 5 minutes after he got to work the next day. After that, we were ‘official’ (though we practically lived together already). I have absolutely no memory of when we first said I love you though!

It obviously doesn’t mean much though if it’s not too special. We’ve had a very happy decade together since then.

Saud ot while we on holiday early on in the relationship and I was drunk and eating meatballs at the time!

We had been together about 2 to 3 weeks, but had seen a lot of each other. We were lying in the bath with candles around us and he had his arms around me and he said it. I said it back and I knew even that early on that I meant it.

My boyfriend told me at midnight on new years' eve! We'd been together about three months, but had known each other a while before that.

I said "You're drunk, but I love you too."

The next day he said it again :)

Rather a different slant - 6 months into our relationship we were cuddled up in bed when he said "I love you but I love my wife", I said "I love just you". I ended it soon after that but 5 years later (he made himself single and got back in touch) we are together properly and say "I love you" very often.

My fella dropped the L Bomb in the Trafford centre car park