How do you say I love you?

Love comes in many forms, and many degrees of attachment, so love is many different things to many different people. Love is a deep sense of caring, attraction, passion, affection, or kinship to a person, pet, plant, or even to an inanimate object.

We say I love you to create an emotional bond, reaffirm an emotional bond, as a term of endearment, to comfort someone, to say we are sorry, to say thank you, to express a feeling of passion, or as an emotional expression of pleasure granted. We say I love you to express our love.

Because love is so uniquely individual to each person, how we say I love you is also individual to each person who voices the phrase, and this means that there really are a million different ways and reasons to say I love you.

Sometimes it just feels like it isn't quite the right time yet to say I love you but you desperately want to voice the words to that special someone who spins your emotions upside down.

Well there are ways to say I love you without really saying I love you...

1) I love everything about you.

2) I love how you make me feel.

3) I love all the things you do for me.

4) You make me feel good - I love being around you.

5) I love your toes - they are so cute.

6) I love my world with you in it.

7) I love your kisses.

To give the key to your heart to another is a metaphor to show the giving of one's emotions and self to another. It's a very romantic concept and a very sentimental way to say I love you. When you give the key to your heart to another you offer in total trust your complete self to this person

Of course there are also other keys which can be given to say I love you. If you are dating someone then giving them the key to your home is a symbol of trust and of a desire to see your relationship reach to a new level. If you are married then the key to a hotel room is a romantic invite to a relaxing get-a-way. It's a wonderful way to say I love and desire you above all others.

If you want to get unbelievably romantic in how you say I love you then you can give your love a key to a box or small treasure chest. Inside the chest you place a gift, which if you are single is an invitation to marriage, and if you are already married is an invitation to renew your wedding vows.

Be creative. There are many keys which can be given to say I love you.

People have been writing love notes to each other since virtually the dawn of time (or at least since man first set his chisel to stone that is). So grab a pen, or your closest keyboard, and write out a love note.

What do you say in a love note? Well anything that you want to. It can be a simple "I love you", a poem, a quote, or it can be some huge mushy gushy outpouring of your love. You can splash your cologne on it, stick on some sparkly Valentine's day stickers, sprinkle glitter all over it, or seal it with a kiss. You can even write it on the bathroom mirror if you like.

It is your love note so you get to decide how you want to do it. Once you are done you can hide it under a pillow, place it at their spot at the table, post it, email it, hide it in the cookie jar, or tape it on the fridge. Being creative is what makes love so darn romantic.

Some of the most romantic gestures of love involve a special memory of time spent together. Recreate your first date, the first time that you said I love you, or your honeymoon. It can be a time, a place, or a moment that somehow just spells out how much your special someone means to you.

It's your memory so where you go or what you do is completely up to you. Go back in time and say I love you with a memory from the past.

So when is the correct time to say I love you? Ideally these words should be said whenever you feel they are appropriate. They should be said as often as one has the opportunity to say them, but sadly this is not always the case, and far too often I love you goes unspoken.

If it is your first time saying I love you in a relationship then these words may be more difficult to say. While one person may find it easy to voice I love you early in a relationship, another may have to wait for a deeper level of emotional commitment before they are able to acknowledge love to their partner. We are all very individual people with different levels of emotional and social vulnerability.

Some individuals find it very comfortable to say I love you often to the people who they care about while others only feel at ease to say the phrase in moments of the deepest emotion. There is really no defining a right or wrong time to say I love you. I would hope that everyone could say the phrase at anytime, and without fear, but the timing of the words I love you is for each person to decide.

Perhaps one of the most romantic tales of love and romance was written in 1995 by a young girl named Laura (Allen) Hammond. The story was titled Shmily and was the true story of the amazing love that her grandmother and grandfather had for each other.

S-h-m-i-l-y stands for "See how much I love you" and it was a game of romance that Laura's grandparents played with each other throughout the many years that they shared together. You can read the story here: Shmily - See how much I love you. It's a story which shows how wonderful simply saying "I love you" really is.

So go on, and get romantic, it really is okay to say I love you, over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

I love you should be a greeting given to all who you care for. It should be accompanied by gestures of kindness, caring, laughter, and love.

Couples should say I love you often and in very romantic ways. I love you should be a message lovingly conveyed throughout the day. Married couples should say I love you when they greet each other in the morning and also as the last words spoken before they go to sleep at night.

Children should hear the words I love you throughout their day. It is important for children to know that their parents will always love them, even when that parent is angry at them, and especially when they are sad. When a parent says "I love you" it helps to make the child feel safe.

I love you is a phrase which strengthens emotional bonds. It is a phrase which should be shared often with those who you care for. I love you is a message that comes from the heart.

As he puts on his jacket to leave he says, "okay hon", just like he does every work day. Then I go to the top of the short stairs by our doorway so that he can stretch up to me for a last kiss good-bye and to whisper one more time "I love you hon".

Then I shut off the radio, and go back to the computer with my cup of coffee where I begin my work day, just like I do every day.

As I sit here this morning, I can't help but think that this is exactly where I want to be, I am perfectly content in my life.

As my husband got ready to go to work this morning either he or I reached out at least a dozen times to touch each other. We shared perhaps a half dozen small stolen kisses throughout the couple hours, from the time that we woke, till he walked out the door.

Just a quick grasping of hands as we passed each other in the hallway, a hug when we both reached the coffee pot at the same time, a short comforting back rub as we sat. Maybe we touched each other for security, comfort, or reassurance. I am really not sure the reasons for our constant touching of each other.

The atmosphere is still cozy warm with the knowledge that I am safe, I have a home, and I am loved. I am thinking that this is exactly where I want to be. This is my life and it is wonderful.

Because you believe in us, work for us, and trust in us, I love you.

It is your desire to be in love that has held us together, and for that I will be eternally grateful to you, for I now could not imagine my world without you in it.

It is because you love me that I love you.....Because You Love Me.

It infects your mind, and your heart, and you haven't a clue why or how it happens. It just does. It's love, and how lovers find each other in this big wide world is as mysterious as the emotion itself is.

Perhaps a magnetic or physical attraction draws you to your mate. Or maybe a brief glimpse into that persons eyes and into the emotion that rests deep within them is what lets you know that you have found love....Is True Love Accidental or Predestined?

As long as our heart continues to beat, and our body craves the gentle touch of another hand within our own, love will happen.

We are human, and age does not stop us from desiring affection, or love from those around us. Human touch is as important to an elderly person as it is to a newborn baby. The elderly need the warmth and closeness of an intimate love relationship as much as their younger counterparts do.

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