8 letters
With more power than almost any other words.
I Love You.
Do you remember the first time your significant other said them to you?
Mr. B were talking online - on webcam even. It was winter in Minnesota and I was freezing, so I was in bed, under my covers.... For weeks I had been SO self conscious about the words I was using... so many times I came so close to accidentally telling him that I loved him... not that I didn't mean it, but I was so afraid of scaring him off. So it was .... "I really really like you" or the mid-sentence catch "I love you...r way with words."... ACK - it was getting SO hard not to just blurt out all that was in my heart, but I've been in that place before, when you say the words, and don't get them back. That's an icky feeling.
So...we're talking, and here's what my bed looks like:
Yes... it's plaid. I know. Not the point this time. I would like to call your attention to the I Love You pillow in the middle. My dad & stepmom gave me this pillowcase in the mid 80's, and I've had it on my bed pretty much ever since. So it was behind me as Mr. B and I were talking and he said, "Nice Pillow"... and those two words lead to a discussion about how we were both feeling it, but both so scared of running the other one off. So that night... thanks to a pillow case, I told Mr. B I love him... and he told me he loves me. And we haven't turned back since. And every night I hold that pillow...dreaming of the night I get to hold Mr. B.How did you say I love you the first time? Who said it first??
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That is so sweet!!!!
How sweet!! And I love the pillow!!
What a cool memory for you guys :) Sweet!
I totally remember the first time DH told me he loved me. Freaked.....me.....out!!! LOL Not completely, but certainly caught me off guard because we had only known each other a very, very short time and I was just 17 and he was 19. And he was SO cool and studly and I know there was a part of me that thought it was just him giving me a line. Until he said it again, softly and kissed me. We'd kissed lots before that kiss, but that kiss told me he meant it. And he's been reminding me that he means it every day since then (23 years worth of days so far - 20 of 'em as his wife :) )
That just melted my little heart!
The first time Mr. Baseball told me he loved me, I told him "thank you". Even though I was feeling it too, it just caught me so off guard that I didn't know what else to say. And I got scared because I had always wanted the man I would marry to be the first to say I love you. Turns out, he was the man I married. I told him I loved him the next week after I realized how stupid I was being.
Thanks for making me think about a very sweet time in my life! I am happy for both of you and it is wonderful that you have each other!
What a great story!! When/if you guys get married, you should use that for your ring pillow!!
That is so sweet. I'm trying to remember the first time Lee or I said I love you...and I have absolutely no recollection whatsoever! Either I am totally lame or totally secure in my love relationship with my husband. I'll pick the latter, because I never have to think back more than a couple of hours to the last time.
Aw. Thanks for sharing.
I said it to Scott, and vice versa, the minute he put the engagement ring on my finger. 'Cause I'd said it before, to countless losers. And after being almost-engaged 4 years before meeting Scott and enduring all the heartache from that fallout, I promised God that I would not give my love to another man until I was certain that man was the last one I'd ever say it to. So it went like this:
Will you marry me?
Yes.
I love you!
I love you, too...
And then we've been saying it 20 times a day or more, ever since.
There's my story!
What a great pillow and a great way to talk about how you both were feeling!
As for us...Hubby and I met in an apartment complex in Orlando, FL. He was there for flight school and the night we met we pretty much were inseperable. I had maybe uttered those words to one other guy so while I was truly into Hubby, I didn't want to scare him away. The day came for his big interview for a real flying job and I was there dropping him off and when he got out and got ready to go I said it. He was shocked and then smiled like a big goon. Good times!
Aww....that is priceless.
My husband and I were at his old university having fun in the bar scene. We weren't dating yet, just friends at this point. Actually we had been friends for about a week or so. He took me into a stairwell and told me he thought he was falling in love with me. We had our first date that night ;)
That is the sweetest story.
Our "I love you" story is long and complicated, but it all worked out. We've been married 18 years!
Oh Lizzy, I am so rooting for you. Go Lizzy Go! I hope that you get all the love and happiness you so deserve.
LOVE it! (pun intended). Love the pillow!!
Al told me he loved me when we were hanging out at his house in his room (watching tv I swear!). He played "I think I'm in Love" by Eddie Money and told me that he didn't think it, he knew it.
Say it with me. Awwwwwwwww.
he's cute and I'll keep him :)
Thank God for that pillow, huh? :)
The first time I told Bird I loved him I was miserably sick with a cold and in a Nyquil stupor. He was taking care of me and the words just fell out of my mouth! As soon as I realized what I had said, I was mortified. Like you, I didn't want to scare him off by saying it first. No such luck!
Instead, he wanted to talk about why I felt that way. Can you imagine my HUMILIATION!? Luckily he admitted he felt the same way and returned my sentiments and love. He never lets me live it down that I said it first. I am always quick to remind him it was only because he had me so high on Nyquil. Thanks for this walk down memory lane. I loved reading how your story of love unfolded!
Thanks for coming by -- I love that idea. I was the fist to say I love you it was New Years Eve and at midnight I told him I love him and wanted to be in his arms for the rest of my life and it was done and we to never looked back we have been happily married for 14 years. Thanks for sharing today -- Much Love
Anissa
Awwww!
Mr. Sweetie said it first. I was too afraid to scare him off and I think he was afraid too, but he told me for the first time, over the phone, about 4 months after we started dating. I didn't really want him to do it that way, but it was still great. It made the urgency to see each other again, more strong.
ILU...is what my Hubs wrote...
IT was an online romance and he wrote ILU...he had not even seen a pic of ME or anything...HE said he loved me before he met me and just knew. I mean weird big time...then he called me and we talked for 8 hours long distance I am serious and he declared he loved me and that we would be married. that is my story!
Hi Hot Tub Lizzy. Thanks for stopping my blog today. I really hope you make another trip to New York. This time you'll have a good time. I love you list Goddess as your occupation!!! Hope you'll come back again soon.
I don't remember at all. That's bad, isn't it? But we do, and we have, for a long, long time now.
Love is good :-)
I don't remember. The crazy thing is that I DO remember with a couple of boyfriends I had BEFORE him. Eek!
Like Lynda said though, love is good and after 16 years with my hubby, it's better than ever!
I have a secret to share...I have never been the one to say it first. Actually, I have been known to hold onto it for a few days after I hear it.
Hubby and I were in college and I was the ripe old age of 18. He was at his college two hours away from me and we were on the phone one night late at night. I remember thinking that it was crazy because I was so young but something inside of me just knew that I loved him. Like you, I was scared to say it though...what if he thought I was nuts? Was I nuts? So, we were talking late at night and I was sitting on the floor in my dorm hallway so I wouldn't wake up my roomate. I don't even know what we were talking about but I remember him cutting me off and saying..."Y'know what? I'm in love with you...is that crazy? I love you." I think my heart stopped and I of course told him it right back! :)
Oh...by the way...yeah for you!! I am such a hopeless romantic and I am rooting for you and Mr. B all the way...I cannot wait for the day that you can always be together and we will all get to read about it! :)
I said it first. I felt it. And he didn't. Which is so ironic because I didn't even like him when we first met. When I told him that I loved him, he told me that he loved my hair :-)
How sweet, and what a clever title!
J said it first to me. I was always a chicken about saying it first. He said it and then assured me that he knew we hadn't known each other long, but he truly meant it. And he did! =)
What a great story! And I love all the stories of everyone else, too.
I was like Lula, afraid to say it too soon after I'd been burned before. So I waited. Even though I felt it, and knew it, I still waited. And it burned a hole in my pocket, the wanting to say it. Finally, Joe left me a note, and at the bottom it said "I love you". When I asked him about it, he affirmed what he had written. Then I could say it. Less than a year later, we were marching down the aisle.
And that's my story.
That is so sweet!
I was the first one to say it to my husband..on the steps of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial...but he said it right back to me...as we were both feeling it then...and we haven't turned back.
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