10 Thoughts He Has When He Says ‘I Love You’

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The word ‘love’ takes on many different forms and meanings. There are casual ‘luv ya’ texts to a friend, the love we share between family members, the love we have for a best friend, and then there is the deep, intimate love we feel for another. The type of love that can be expressed by no other way than the genuine, look-you-in-the-eye: “I love you.”

When a man reaches the point with a woman where he professes this feeling to her, there are many different implications that come along with the statement. The words themselves are only words, what gives them meaning is the commitments he makes when he says them.

I Will Never Stop Putting in Effort for You

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Love is not just a word, it’s not just a noun – it’s a verb. It requires action to truly exist. It requires effort. It requires consistency. When it comes to love, our generation seems to be setting off fireworks. There is a spectacular display that is quite often beautiful, but unpredictable and ends as quickly as it began. Leaving behind only the memory of the experience.

Older generations set fires. They would begin to burn with a small smoldering flame and eventually evolve into a roaring blaze as they continued to stoke it. The right man will understand that the effort it took to capture your heart will be the same effort it will take to keep it.

I Don’t Care About Your Past, I just Want to be Your Future

Along with love, comes perspective. Maturity teaches us that we all have a past, parts of which are better than others. The point is that while we always carry our past with us, it doesn’t have to define us. And when we love someone – it is certainly not what defines them, either. We begin to create our own world with this person. Our own memories. Our own traditions. Our own life together. We realize that who someone was, is not who they are. The windshield is bigger than the rearview for a reason – it’s fine to glance back every now and then, but if you focus on it for too long, you will probably crash.