I love you.

[NMAmy]

All the time. In fact, the other day, dd and I were talking on the phone and my other line was ringing so I didn't say, "Love you!" at the end of the call.

She called me back.

 

[JessicaR]

Everyday, multiple times. My side of the family ends each phone call with an I love you also. Lotsa Lovin.

 

[klacey1]

Everyday. Everytime I say good-bye on the phone with DBF or my mom. It started when I was a kid, my father always said-- "If when I hang up the phone, I get hit by a truck, I want the last thing I said to you be 'I love you'"

 

[Thumper_Man]

All the time.

When DW and I text each other, send each other an IM, or call one another; we always start the conversation "I Love You" with the natural reply being "I Love You To." We've done this for all the years we've been together and don't see it ending anytime soon.

 

[Feralpeg]

I say it so often to my DD that it just comes out when I'm least expecting it. One day at work, I was talking to a co-worker on the phone. When it came time to say goodbye, I said "Love you"! He just started laughing and said "I love you too". I was very embarrassed!

 

[JessicaR]

I say it so often to my DD that it just comes out when I'm least expecting it. One day at work, I was talking to a co-worker on the phone. When it came time to say goodbye, I said "Love you"! He just started laughing and said "I love you too". I was very embarrassed!

So funny! I had a similar thing happen to me. I was on the phone with my insurance broker and he said it at the end of our call. He and I had a huge laugh. He like us always end a call to loved ones with, I Love You.

I'm thinking there are worse things that can happen.

 

[SCHBR'smom]

We tell the kids multiple times a day. As for DH and I, we have said it at the end of a phone conversation and when we are together since we were kids in high school. Multiple times a day for almost 17 years. Just now at the end of a texting conversation, he texted I love you, I texted I love you too, then he texted I love you more.

 

[clovergirl5]

I tell dc and dh everyday. I tell my mom and dad and sister at the end of our phone conversation. I tell my best friend all the time too.

My mom and dad never hugged us kids or told us they loved us when we were kids. We knew they did, but they didn't show affection. That is the reason why I overindulge my affection for my dh and dc. My kids get hugs and I love yous everyday from me! And they freely give it back, even when Im not expecting it, one will say, I love you mama ♥♥

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yes, all the time. My family is spoiled with I love yous, hugs and a passing complement whenever I can think of a genuine one. I always tell them how lucky I am that out of all the people on this plant that could have ended up with them for a family, I am so lucky it was me.

I never heard anything like this when I was a kid. Nothing nice, no hugs... nothin' and I was starved for it. Then when I was 16 I dated a guy who turned out to be a real jerk, but whose family was wonderful. The Mom said I love you all the time. I observed her and adopted the behavior which totally freaked my own family out because they all thought I was nuts I didn't care, I wanted to be loved and eventually found people who were ok with my openness about the word and the feeling. Turns out saying it all the time is a good way to scare off people are aren't good with it I do remember my Grandma first being stunned but then responding favorably and reaching a place where she was always telling me she loved me at the end of every phone call up until she died. I think she needed to hear it as much as I did

 

[minkydog]

I tell my hubby many times a day especially when leaving for work and at night or when talking on the phone. My DS at home at night and everytime he leaves the house. My older DS's whenever they leave to go home or when talking to them on the phone. My sister and I now say it to each other after many years of not.

You make a good point. Even if you've never been one to verbally demonstrate love you can learn to do it. My DH comes from a very kissy-huggy family. If they're going to the store for a toothbrush, everyone has to be kissed, hugged, kissed, I-love-you'd, and only THEN are they out the door. When they come back it's the same little show--kisskisshugIloveyouhug. For me? It's a little cloying, but it's their tradition. They would no sooner drop their tradition than step on a crack(break your mother's back.)

In my family some of us live pretty far apart and we all have a pretty independent mentality. Our parents NEVER said I love you or I'm proud of you or You're beautiful, etc. So it wasn't something that we learned to do. Marrying into a touchy-feely family has been tough for me, but I have learned how to tell people that I love them. Now whevever I talk to my sisters, my brother or my mother I always say I love you and they are starting to return it. I *know* they love me; I don't have to hear it to feel it. But *I* have enjoyed expressing my love toward them.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I didn't always do this, but I have probably for the past 25 years. When I drop off my DSs (even though they don't want to hear it) I always say it. When I used to talk on the phone with my Mom and Dad, I would close with saying it. It was comforting to me to know that when I lost them, the last words I had said to them was "I love you". My DH and I say it when we are ending a phone conversation, and in the past couple of years I have started saying it to his family members when I speak to them on the phone or leave them to come home. I think it throws them off, they are not really an expressive family in those times.