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[Samantha94]

The last night we were together before he had to leave back to US, I really wanted to say 'I Love You' for the first time. It was in my head all the time, but I just couldn't say it, because I didn't want to make him cry, because we were both pretty emotional already. But next day he went to Tallinn (day after that his plane left) and we talked on fb and he said that 'I think I love you'. So basically he was the one who said it first. Turned out that he wanted to say 'I love you' last night too, but was afraid to make me cry. Hahahaha, two idiots really

But before his plane left, he called me, we talked and then he said 'I love you' and I almost started crying when I heard him say those words.

[Anoulie]

Oh, ours was funny. I'd been ranting about Americans' excessive use of "I love you" and how it devalues the meaning of these words etc. etc.
Then, after two and a half weeks of officially dating, my SO and I were on a trip with his sister and he mentioned he hadn't said that to me yet because he knew how I felt about everyone telling everyone else they loved them and when it would be okay for him to say it? I said I'd be okay with it if he said it right now, which he did, and I said, "I love you too" and his sister said, "Awww."
That's our story, y'all.

[differentcountries]

I have this thing where I can not say I love you first. I had sort of started saying it in my mind, but I was still only saying stuff like I like you... And he did as well, even though we had started to talk about us as falling in love. After a short time of beating around the bush like that he shocked me by saying he wanted to grow old with me! I think he started to use I love you a little after that. And I said so too. Now we are learning how to say it in the language of the other.

[stormy]

We have not verbally said it yet. The last time we saw one another over a month ago we had a small conversation about saying it in our heads often. Now on facetime during certain moments we both get jittery, nervous laughter, teary eyed, but no words. We both want to wait until we see each other again to say it for the first time. For now he will do things like pointing to his eye, his heart and at me. I taught him how to say I love you in American Sign Language. So now many times we will do that and wiggle our fingers around being silly.

[Samantha94]

We have not verbally said it yet. The last time we saw one another over a month ago we had a small conversation about saying it in our heads often. Now on facetime during certain moments we both get jittery, nervous laughter, teary eyed, but no words. We both want to wait until we see each other again to say it for the first time. For now he will do things like pointing to his eye, his heart and at me. I taught him how to say I love you in American Sign Language. So now many times we will do that and wiggle our fingers around being silly.

That's so cute!

[stormy]

That's so cute!

Thank you! We laugh at how mushy we both can be.

[melarie]

I knew we had both been thinking it for a while so one night I just decided I was gonna say it, but I got really nervous just before I said so I started ccryingand it ended up taking me like 20 minutes to calm down and say it lol. But he was really good about it, he knew I was getting at it and let me work out my anxieties over it. And soon as I said it he had me check my email and he had sent me a virtual bouquet that said he loved me too.

[Tesfaye]

He said it first after 3 months. We were telling each other how we felt in the relationship, etc. We were texting and he sent me this sweet, long paragraph. I said, "Awww" and he told me that he loved me!

[kbender]

After being best friends for two years, we had ended up hooking up the summer after he came back from his freshman year of college. After a while, I felt really intense feelings towards him and I knew he was going to go back to school far away. He had made a move on me and I had told him we shouldn't do anything because I felt as though I was falling for him. He told me he knew exactly what I meant and he felt similar. We've been dating ever since and finally, one day on the phone a few weeks later, I had asked him what he thought love was. He explained to me his opinion on the word and awkwardly and adorably said, "So, I guess that means I love you, right?" He had then told me he was sure of it for a while but didn't want to scare me away. It may not have been super romantic, but I wouldn't have had it any other way!

[jana89]

My SO was the first one saying it. It happened after the first night we spent together The next day he came and said it might have made wrong impression on me to say it in this situation, but he really meant it. He was so nervous, it was cute It took me few more weeks to say it, but I´m sure he knew it already.

[gracethefishy]

He sent it over text message after only a few weeks, when I having a mental breakdown. I think I said something along the lines of "why does the world hate me?" and he replied with "Because I love you enough to make up for it."

[lilcupcake]

It was a horribly awkward conversation. I said it first, though. I went to explain that i had strong feelings for him, rambled about that for way too long, then said "I think i might love you". he responded with another awkward ramble that made me feel like he was saying "aww... thats cute... no..." but because he was rambling and not really making sense, i had to directly ask him how he felt, and he said he loved me too.

So our first "i love you" took over an hour to get through XD

[kimmidyann]

My first "I love you" was totally unexpected and actually very sweet. We had been saying "I love you" for a while in the very beginning of our relationship because we believed that you could love somebody as a friend and you could be IN LOVE which would be totally different. So since we first established a strong relationship as friends (we became the best of friends in a week) we had been saying "I love you" before we even really got together. When we got together we decided it'd be sad if we stopped saying it and decided to keep it. One night, my boyfriend was really depressed so we went for a walk. He had just come out as lesbian (before he came out as trans) and most of his friends had deserted him. I told him I wasn't going to leave him and that he didn't have to fear, but he was still worried. Instantly, I was pained. I got all choked up and my eyes started to water and we stopped behind this ice cream shop and I grabbed his face to look at me. I told him, "Listen to me, I love you!" and he muttered something like, "yeah... yeah, love you too..". I stopped short and said, "No you don't understand. I'm IN LOVE with you." and he cried and hugged me and said he was in love with me too. (: It is seriously my favorite story.

[AngelofFluffiness]

Well, our relationship came about in strange circumstances by a page group on Facebook I started that he became part of.
We started our relationship after knowing each other for months and so we were talking after getting haphazardly being thrown together.
A few months in...I just typed to him, without knowing what he would say, that I loved him.
And he typed it back.
Nothing fancy. But it was very special for us. Now we can't hardly stop saying it XD

[kittyxuchiha11]

we had jokingly said it too each other for a while. like we'd say i love you before going to bed or leaving to go somewhere. I've always easily said it to friends so saying it and actually meaning it was easy to say when i confessed how i felt to her. i told her how much i loved her and she said she loved me too, although i didn't believe her like i thought she still meant it in a jokey way. but of course we were both being serious the whole time and we'd both just thought the other person was joking oops.
It wasn't until about February this year that we actually got to talk on the phone and when i first said it on the phone to her it was really lovely and she got all flustered. she always does and so do i when we actually hear each other say it. when we met for the first time in June this year and i said it she blushed so hard a had the biggest grin and really saying it in person sort of felt like the first time of saying it and really deeply meaning it. (i just wrote a mini essay oops)