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I'll tell Grace two or three times a day, and she'll do the same for me.
Please note that when I say, I don't understand something below, I mean I don't understand it; I'm not criticising, just expressing my inability to connect to that kind of thinking, a flaw in me, not in others.
I can't understand the, "It means more if I say it less" attitude. This makes it sound as if your love for another person is a finite quantity, and every time you tell her "I love you," you use some of that love up, but if you say it less, each one contains more love. Every time I tell Grace I love her, I mean it equally.
I also can't quite connect to the, "I don't say it; I show it with my actions." These two things aren't mutually exclusive. You can show your love through what you do and tell the other person you love them often.
One last thought. Isn't part of loving someone doing things that show your love? And if you're with someone who needs the words, wouldn't telling them be one of those things you could do to show your love?
There are days I'd kill to hear my father tell me, just once, that he loves me.
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