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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
How often do you tell H you love him?
I heard someone say once that they were annoyed by couples who constantly say ?I love you? and they felt like the more it was said the more in diminished the meaning.
DH & say I love you to one another all the time. He?s in law enforcement, so if something were to happen to him, I would want that to be the last thing we said to each other. So even if we?re mad at each other we still say it. I often wonder if my co-workers are rolling their eyes when they hear me on the phone with him because I never hear any of them say it to their H.
What do you ladies do? Say it every time you part ways, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never?.
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Re: How often do you tell H you love him?
All of this.
Every time we leave in the morning, before bed, and when we get off the phone.
I don't need to say it so much but he likes to and I love him so I do it.
I?m the same way with family & friends. I always tell them I love them. I think it?s important to say it & even more important to hear it.
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ditto
not often at all. maybe a few times a week? we know we love each other though. We both work from home, so I wonder if that makes a difference? if he goes away for the weekend for work I say it more often while he is away.
I say it way more to LO, at least a few times a day.
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Any time one of us leaves the other and every night before bed. And sometimes if he does something particularly awesome, I'll tell him.
ETA: and every single time we get off the phone.
I think what that guy meant was that he felt people who say it all the time say it more out of habit & not because they really mean it. Or perhaps he meant, when you hear it so much/often, it's not as meaningful or special as when you hear it seldomly.
All the time. And yes, I do think that sometimes it's habit to say it when ending a phone conversation or whatever, but it's nice to hear nonetheless.
We always make sure to say it when he's leaving for work for the day. MH is a cop, too.
Don't feel guilty! We're team Scout - once or twice a year? My dh is the kind of guy who figures that I should know he loves me so he doesn't have to say it. It's not a big deal to me at all.
We tell DS all the time, though.
Rarely. Ususally the only time we say it is if one of use is traveling for work or something without the other. Neither of us is very mushy/lovey dovey. While we probably should say it a little more often than we do, but hearing it all the time would lessen the meaning for me. As a couple of people mentioned, I think it just becomes a habit for some people, like saying "see you later."
That said, I do tell DD that I love her at least a couple of times a day, as does my DH.
DH says it many times a day. I almost never say it to him first. I should probably work on that.
ETA: We each tell DDs we love them dozens of times a day.
We say it several times a day in general, and on top of that almost always when we part ways or hang up the phone.
We had a discussion with friends about how people say "I love you" all the time and it's just another thing to say and has lost its meaning. DH spoke up and said "Steph means it EVERY TIME she says it and I can always tell."
It's absolutely true, and it made me feel good that he knows that. I never say it just because it's something to say.
Several times a day. When we get off the phone, when were parting, before bed, via text/email at work.
We're schmoopy like that.
My DH and I are both in law enforcement (I'm full time Dispatcher and Part Time Deputy since LO and DH is full time deputy and also on the SWAT team), so we make a point to say it on a regular basis. DH was involved in a shooting last May while I was working the radio. For close to 10 minutes, we knew someone on the team was shot, but we had no idea who. It was the longest 10 minutes of my life. Luckily, it was not him, however it was the member in front of him as they were entering the house. One other member has a bullet hole in his collar of his suit. The situation could have been so much worse. The member who was shot almost did not make it and only did due to the quick thinking of the SWAT doctors and medics. He is now recovered and back to work.
We say it a lot too. The above reminds me though of years ago when I was talking to my landlord on the phone and he said, "Okay, love you, bye..." I was thinking WTF? I assume he was one of those people that just says it as a goodbye and wasn't thinking. It was funny though.