Temporary Archive: Suzanne Brockmann's Message Board

I agree with that premise "if you feel it, you need to say it" too, and I can say, you only need to lose one person too soon to know, that saying it often to those you love, is something you'll never regret.

I say I love you, irrespective of the place, whenever I am inspired to say it. I also believe we benefit from saying it - that it enriches you/your life and it expands one's capacity to love.

I say it to people I love daily becasue it's important to me that they hear it daily, that they know it's true, without any doubt.

However, I would draw a distinction too between saying I love to people I'm firmly ensconced in a solid relationship with and saying I love you for the first time to someone in a new relationship.

What am I afraid of? I don't know that it's fear, as much as a heartfelt concern for the comfort of a new SO - that it's more about a solid progression of a new relationship, simply because we are building something.

Even though the foundation is built on essentially on love, I believe knowing for certain is what matters intially, over saying it or hearing it.