Saying "I love you"

[msskunk]

We haven't said I love you, only I like you and I miss you. But when he told me that I am his dream woman, it mean a lot for me

[xo_Kayla]

This is kind of an odd story, but here it goes! We first said it over Xbox Live. We played a couple games together, and were just sitting around talking over mic. We both knew that we had feelings for each other at this point. I was browsing through my friends list, and I saw he changed his "headline" of his profile to "I think I'm in love." I had a mix of so many emotions! I was relieved, scared, excited, and everything. I wanted to tell him for awhile that I was falling in love with him, but I was too scared to say it. At that time I said "I think I'm in love too." And he says "I know, you've been wanting to tell me for awhile now." Lol! I said "Is it that obvious?!" And he replied with "Kind of" I just love how it happened. It was so cute. Then right before we got off for the night he said the normal "I love you" and I said it back.

We say it a decent amount, but not too much that it gets over used either. It's always said before we go to bed though!

[hxcbreakdance]

My SO said it first and it was before we were actually "official" but we had been seeing each other for about 6 months.
We both say it equally I think and we say it a good amount, always when we get off the phone and when we're together I think it's just randomly.

[LGA]

This might seem a little weird, but my girlfriend told me she loved me only a few days after we became official. I felt the same way (and told her that I loved her too), so there were no awkward moments!

[Miriam]

My SO told me he loved me very soon after we met. It was too soon to me. I told him I can't take it seriously. "Like" is alright, but not "love". So he kept texting me: I Lxxe you. The next time we met in personal, he again told me he loved me. And that he won't let me forbid him to speak the truth At that point it was fine with me and I did tell him that I loved him, too.

[Haru]

My SO said it first. We haven't met yet, so he said it online; but somehow it hit me so hard...
We were online, in the game that we met in. There is an in-game private messaging system, and he sent me a simple message with "i love you." Nothing more, nothing less. I found it a little odd because we had been talking, but nothing about a relationship had ever been brought up. I went to reply to him but found out he was offline. Later on I scolded him jokingly, saying "don't run off after you tell someone you love them otherwise they can't reply back!"
I had thought it was just a simple friendly thing though. I had talked him through some things and tried to make him feel better about himself. The game we met on, called Transformice, is a Mario-style game, with one player leading the others to their goal (the shaman leading the mice to the cheese, to be specific). Later on that day when we were playing; one of these maps involved the lead player on the right side (him), and the other players on the left (me). There was a large, empty gap in the middle, with cheese up in the middle of the gap. He then informed me how the game reminded him of real life, and when I asked him how so, his words were "because of that gap to you." Then it just kind of hit me what he meant. I had strong feelings for him as well that came up all of a sudden, but I was too afraid to say something for fear he would've thought it was weird, meeting online, on a game and et cetera. I let things spill out a little while later; but at that moment, when he led both of us to the cheese, I promptly said "there. No more gap."
Later on when we had officially become a couple, we had the same thing happen in game. That map, him as shaman, I as the regular mouse. He build a little plane out of the items available, then came over to my side, let me to the cheese, and led me over to his side where he made a house. I cried so hard when he did that.

[leonsfangirl]

I said it first.

We'd been talking (and cybering) everyday for roughly 2/3 weeks when i went on holiday with my now ex-Husband and children. I asked my SO to send me a song i could listen to when i missed him and he sent Modern English, Melt With You (It's still our song, to this day) I left on a Monday and by the wednesday ( and repeated listening to our song) i was missing him loads. My son got sick wednesday afternoon and i decided to stay in the apartment with him while my ex took my daughter out for the evening. I bought an internet pass (wifi wasnt free god damn it!) and once my son went to bed and was settled i logged on to msn and straight away got an offline message from my SO saying he missed me. My heart nearly exploded, i was pleased he'd missed me too as it meant i wasnt in this alone. I'd already admitted that i had a feelings for him and he tried to "put me off". He felt the same but was confused, as it was an online thing and i was married, it was very complicated. After i sent the message i noticed his avatar was a "real" picture, at this point we hadnt seen any pictures of each other (we were both had quite low self esteem at that point)Anyway.... he was offline so i sent a message back saying i missed him too and if the picture i was looking at was him. An hour or so later he logged in, he said yes it was him and he would understand if i didnt want to talk to him anymore. I tried to convince him i liked what i saw but he didnt believe me. I showed him my picture and was shaking so bad with nerves but he said i was beautiful and i got teary eyed. We had a massive heart to heart where we both got very emotional and ended up in tears. Over the next 7/8 hours we shared all out past hurts and things that made us smile, songs, pictures etc.
I had never felt so deeply connected to another person in my whole life and it was at that point i realised that i loved him.... so i told him. He was surprised and he actually didnt believe me! I'd had a few beers (wasnt drunk!!) he suggested i go to sleep as it was very late for me (4/5am) and we'd talk when i got home, He added that the song i was listening to on msn was very apt for the situation (Love will keep you up all night) we said our goodnights and i logged off.

That was just over 3 years ago, it's been a difficult road for us but i wouldnt change a thing.

[ArchetypicalIdiot]

He just came out with it. This was while we were still friends. Conversation went something like this:

Him: But...I love you
Me: Um...no you don't
Him: Yeah I fucking do.
Me: Sod off.
Him: No you sod off.
Me: This will get complicated.
Him: Yes. Yes it will.
Me: ....okay. Cool

Romantic, no? A few conversations later after we'd both cooled down I said it back and we say it each time we say goodnight or goodbye now. Lol.

[Caitlin2009]

i said it first, on msn messenger when we were saying goodnight to each other, we were still only friends when i said it but i knew i loved her and had to say something, i think i say it a little bit more but she does say it alot as well, at random moments especially when were feeling super lovey

[Kanga]

He said it to me in the game even before we were together, he was kind of playing around at the time, since he was still dating someone, and I believe he meant it as in friends, but never anything more. But it didn't matter once she cheated on him. He asked me to be his gf about a week or two after that. Then a month later, he told me he loved me. I didn't even say it back til about 2 months later. I'm one of those people, who doesn't just say it, because someone says it to me. If I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it because I mean it. Then he said to me one day out of the blue, he never thought I would ever say it. Ha.

[MadMolly]

(my real name is Emma, btw, in case this little story is confusing)

One night, he called me after having a bad night out drinking. I asked him how I could make him feel better. He said to me, "I want you to tell me that you love me."
"What?"
"Tell me that you love me."
"I can't say it yet, I've never met you in person, and you have to say it first I've decided!"
He began to protest and yell and tell me he didn't care when suddenly the feeling overwhelmed me. I interrupted him and just burst out with "I love you."
He kept talking a moment and then suddenly stopped. "What did you just say?"
"I love... you?"
"Uh. Wow."
"What! You wanted me to say it!"
"I know, I know, I'm just absorbing the words. Wow."
"Oh god, I knew I shouldn't have told you first."
"Emma, I love you. You are the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. I love you so much it's making my head spin. Please move to Canada. I have to be with you. I love you."

[Tabbylee]

I kind of said it first... We were having our nightly phone marathon and I was talking about my stomach feeling all fluttery and we were trying to figure out why lol... I said "Maybe it's because I love you" without missing a beat he said "I love you too" We'd been fighting saying it and had both almost slipped up.. Actually he had once but I didn't hear him and when I asked him what he'd said he wouldn't tell me haha, I didn't push it. We'd been friends for about 2.5 years at this point but only more than friends for about 2 weeks. We wanted to wait until we met in person in August but there is no way we could have held out that long! The date we use for our Anniversary, April 21 is the day we first said I love you

[aamacna]

He said it first.
I went on vacation with him and his mom's side of the family this summer. It was August 1, a gorgeous, sunny day in North Carolina. We were in the ocean. I was clinging to him - arms around his neck, legs wrapped around his waist - when all of a sudden he said, "I love you." It took a few seconds to process what he'd just said, but as soon as I realized it, I hugged him and said, "I love you too." He gets so many bonus points for the romance of the moment.

[Anolinde]

He said it to me first on accident, we were just friends back and only known each other a few months after meeting online, 1 or 2 then and he didn't really realize he had feelings for me until it slipped out and shortly after he realized he really did feel that way towards me. It was a while after that, I realized I had strong feelings for him too, and then it just became natural for us to express our feelings and say it, but it kind of hit me like a brick wall one day that I literally did LOVE him and couldn't imagine myself without him, then I told him and was hard to admit it, but felt amazing once I did. A part of me was skeptical of " long distance, or online relationships " but I took a chance because I'd never felt that way about anyone EVER before. Shortly after that, about 3 months into knowing each other online we started dating. and 3 months later we met in person for the first time and it was no different than how it was online, the only difference if a minor one was that we could touch and it was absolutely amazing, it felt so comfortable and natural between us. : )