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How often do you say "I Love You"?
Brooke's (not me obviously 
) post got me thinking about affection in our relationships.
How often do you say "I Love You" to DH or family?
Re: How often do you say "I Love You"?
I talk to my dad about once every 3 weeks, and always end the conversation with I Love You. Same goes for emails.
I talk to my mom every other day or so, and usually ends in I Love You. And whenever I see her in person, it ends in I Love You.
DH on the other hand, is not used to this. He thinks it's weird to say I Love You that much, but I'm just used it it. He never says it to his family, even though they are very close. We probably say it to each other once a week or so. Obviously we know we love each other, so it's not a big deal.
We're a lot like you. I talk to my mom and sister everyday, and we always end with a "love you". I've never heard Chris say it to his family, although they are just as close as my family.
Funny thing - his brother's wife and their kids say it to me all the time.
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My family, while very loving, wasn't super expressive, so I grew up really only saying "I love you" on sort of rare occassion, it was just always implied I guess.
DH's family though is SUPER expressive, and a phone call never ends with anyone in the family without a 'love you' at the end.
When DH and I started getting serious, there was a bit of an "issue", as he thought I wasn't affectionate enough - like I didn't think I needed to end every phone call proclaiming my love.
We've worked it out, and generally I've "conformed" to the lovey side, and we say I love you gosh, probably, 4 or 5 times a day - before work, before bed, couple random times in the evening, usually to break a long silence if we're reading or something. We often say it in a different language, mostly french, just for kicks. Sometimes the response to an "I love you" will be an "oh, I know."
Whenever I talk to my parents or sister we usually end with an "I love you" (assuming it was a pleasant convo). :-P
Now, Chavis and I literally say it a minimum of 20 times a day. We're not obnoxious about it though. OK, to other people maybe a little!
But, we've found different ways to say it like "ILU" or "I adore you". He walks me out every morning before work and we hug, kiss, and say "I love you" and "have a blessed day". We send texts/emails a few times a day at work proclaiming our love. He even opens my doors everywhere we go (including car doors).
I've never been treated this good in my life and I wouldn't have it any other way. I pray we always stay that way!
**side note: the "Brooke" thing is a little confusing. I was thinking y'all could refer to me as Bre since it's in my screen name but I think there's another Bre here...? Ah, well.
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I say it whenever I talk to my mom and dad on the phone.
Sis and I rarely say it.
Always say in emails.
I make sure I say everynight to DH at bed and occassionally other random times when we're together
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DH and I both grew up in pretty expressive families. His mom and dad are possibly more expressive about it than my family, which is tough to do.
DH and I probably say it about 3 times every phone convo (EX: ok, bye...I love you. Oh did you get the milk? blahblahblah...I love you. Bye. see you in a bit. Love you.) We say it pretty much everytime one of us does something nice even if its just basic chores and always before bed, along with kisses.
With my family (and his) its how we end every phone conversation and visit, but it isn't said much during.
I tend to not say it in emails, other than adding "lots of love" instead of "sincerely".
I say it to my mom when ending a phone conversation or leaving town. With my siblings and my dad, hardly ever. We just never grew up saying it a whole lot.
Matt and I say it to each other all the time though. Tons in text. When one of us leaves the room. When we are going to bed. Just all of the time, really.
WARNING: I'm going to sound like a COMPLETE sh!t for what I'm about to tell you.
But, I'll start by saying that I do end 99.9% of my phone conversations with Keith with, "I love you." and also if I am leaving the house to go somewhere or if he is leaving to go somewhere.
Now, my mom ends every single phone conversation with me, with "I love you" and I say "ok" which sounds TOTALLY horrible to people who don't know us. lol But when I was a surly teenager, I never would say it back to her then (and WAS being sh!tty back then!) and it just stuck and now if I said "I love you" back to her, she'd probably have a heart attack and think I was dying or something.
I find that with my very good friends, I only ever say "I love you" when something bad happens or something really great happens. lol When a parent or grandparent dies, or when a new baby is born, or when one of us gets married. Then I say it a lot.
With the rest of my family, which is mostly just my dad's side, we don't really say it. We all know it and don't need to say it. You know? We've just never been big PDA people on that side. And I'm 100% fine with that. It would be weird if one of them suddenly started saying it a lot.
Now my mom's side of the family ALWAYS said I love you and kissed on the mouth (which I've never liked).
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Tisha you are not a complete sh!t....my mom and I are the exact same way!!!!
Ken and I say it to each other all the time.
I tell my sisters I love them, not a lot, but enough so that they know
Oh good. Glad to know I'm not alone. lol
Also, when I was little and my mom would tuck me in at night, she would say, "Your daddy said he loves you" and I would yell (from my bedroom) "I LOVE YOU TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he would yell back, "OKAY!!!" LMAO So maybe a bit of that comes from that too.
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DH and I say it pretty much all the time. Not in a way that takes away from it though, you know when you say something and it just becomes habit instead of having meaning.
I usually say it to my mom after we talk on the phone. None of my other family really though.
DH's family never says it really either. I don't know how we got so affectionate lol.
Husband - at least twice a day.
Parents - at the end of phone conversations, so like once every week for mom and once every 2-3 weeks for dad.
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