"I Love You"

[PrickledMess]

I don't know if this a new fad or I've been living under a rock, but lately I'm encountering women saying "I Love You" instead of just saying "Thanks" or maybe "Thanks so much"

eg* I've had 2 coworkers in the last 2 days alone saying "I love you" when all I did was some trivial favour for them.

Why do they toss this out so casually? I find this annoying because it's been reduced to something meaningless.

I can count the number of times I've said this in my life on one hand, because I only say it when I mean it, surely I'm not the only one that places special meaning on these 3 words? I am male if that makes any difference.

Just say "thanks"

You say thanks and they'll say what they want.

There is also this thing called nuance.

There has never been a time in my 55 years where this has been a new thing.

Some people say 'thanks', some people say 'I love you', some people say 'awesome' or 'amazing'.

You're overthinking massively.

Blame that big girls blouse Scott Mills. Hes always said it and it is stupid.

I agree with you OP.

It totally devalues the meaning if you say it indiscriminately to anyone for anything.

What do these people say to their partners/ husbands / children / parents? , the people who presumably they do actually love? Do they have to say " I REALLY love you" or some other exaggerated form?

Absolutely nothing new.

I think you're being utterly ridiculous about this, how on earth does the frequency with which random people say it have anything to do with what it means when you or a partner say it to each other. They're completely different contexts giving the same sentence a completely different meaning.

If I say "The band are on fire", to someone at a gig, they'll get that I'm not being literal. Whereas if I say it on a 999 call, then the operator is going to assume I am being literal.

Love is a term that means many things. Romantic love, familial love, love based on friendship. Why not collegial love?