When you have been with someone you love for a very long time, I believe it is as natural to expect them to say "I love you" as it is to say it yourself. I have never given much thought to the concept that using that phrase too often leads to the point when it becomes just words you say so much that it loses meaning to person you said them to. I guess that is because if I say it...I mean it. No matter how many times I have said it before. I say it without hesitation because that is the thought in my mind at the moment. That isn't really the issue I am trying to figure out though. The issue is why do I automatically expect to hear it back. I must be extremely naive and insecure to think that just because I feel the need to verbally confirm my feelings as I am feeling them, everyone else does too. It makes me appear childish and silly. I also wonder why it hurts so much to have that fact pointed out to me. Maybe because up until now I didn't realize it was an issue at all.

Posted by gwendolyn on December 28, 2000 at 03:44 PM