Why...

...is it, when you tell someone "I love you" for the first time and when you tell them months later, the words are exactly the same?

It's not the same amount of love. It's not even the same type of love.

The first time you say it, I believe it holds the innocence of love. The infatuation, the lust, the hope that you hear the same words back. All the cutsie stuff (for want of a better word).

But when you've been married 20 years and you say it, would it not hold so much more? It would hold the passion, the fights, the joys, that have been created or been experienced in those years.

Surely, these two phrases shouldn't be the same? Sometimes I think English is a retarded language.

found here, from here

Do you have a way of telling your other half you love them? Something that isn't "I love you", but truly expresses how you feel about them?

Do you speak a different language? Have they managed to think of & find a solution to this predicament?

Maybe the picture is right. Maybe it's the way you say it that holds the key to expressing what you feel.

Bambola x