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    edited February 22 in Chit-Chat
    do you say i love you to your friends ? friends of the same sex or friends & friends of the opposite sex ? just curious how others feel about this. i say i love you to one of my best girl friends because we are very close and she is like my sister but i don't think i would say that to a guy (not including my brother of course!) because i think it might be taken wrong. thoughts ?

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      When saying it to a male friend I always preface it with, "I just love you!" ( said kinda with the same vocal inflection as "I just wanna hug the stuffin's out of you!")
    • Posts: 1,572 Member
      I say it as in " ah gosh, I love you"..Usually when the person has been smart, witty, etc. etc. Not just to say "I love you" like the way I do towards my partner & family. I think people would think I'm weird.
    • Posts: 18,996 Member
      I say I love you to my closest friends, often. We finish phone calls with "ok, I love you!" or say it when we're saying good bye. I do love them, very much, and I think it's important that your friends know they are loved.

      It does get awkward when I'm on the phone to my BFF when I'm out in public with my husband and I say "Ok, baby, I love you!" at the end of a call and people think I'm having an affair.
    • Posts: 5,585 Member
      male friends no

      my one female friend yes
    • Posts: 1,763 Member
      i wish i could go into more detail but im not gonna do it here. just trying to get a feel for other people on this
    • Posts: 14 Member
      I tell my male friend that I love him. He's bi. But we both know that we love each other. We have a totally platonic and beautiful friendship. Have anyone of you ever felt that with another human being? It's like having a soulmate without the sexual attraction. Sometimes I think it's even better.
    • Posts: 96
      if u love em platonic or not, tell em.....never assume they kno and eff whoever thinks is inappropriate. if ur worried that person may take it the wrong way maybe say like pp have said, twist the words slightly.

      i say i love u 2 male and female friends.....
    • Posts: 77 Member
      Yes, I say that to all my friends, male and female. It's the truth. The only one I don't say it to is my girlfriend, because we're not at "that place" yet and it means something different. This is difficult for me, but I don't want to send her running for the hills!
    • Posts: 585 Member
      One of my close female friends I say I love you to all the time. She says it to me, too. She's married with children, her husband doesn't think anything of it. Heck, I've told him I loved him, too. They are closer than family to me.

      I have a few other friends that we will often text I love you and occasionally say it in person or on the phone, too. But mostly texts, not sure why lol.

      I don't think there is anything wrong with telling someone you love them. There are many different kinds of love. I am in love with my best friends in a completely platonic way.
    • Posts: 3 Member
      I say I love you alot. Nothing really wrong with that. I tell my best friend I love her all the time. She has been there for more times than I can count. Want her to know how much she means to me.
    • Posts: 817 Member
      the whole 'i love you' era has left me wanting to blow chunks frankly. :p If I say 'i love you' to a pal, it's a joke meaning 'thanks' for something. or it's an overtly manipulative joke trying to wangle something.

      Otherwise I don't throw it around. I love my children and my family and that's who I love.
    • Posts: 1,763 Member
      I say I love you to my closest friends, often. We finish phone calls with "ok, I love you!" or say it when we're saying good bye. I do love them, very much, and I think it's important that your friends know they are loved.

      It does get awkward when I'm on the phone to my BFF when I'm out in public with my husband and I say "Ok, baby, I love you!" at the end of a call and people think I'm having an affair.

      is this BFF a female or a male ? just curious
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
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      is this BFF a female or a male ? just curious

      So now we get closer to what OP actually wants to know... just spill!
    • Posts: 820 Member
      the whole 'i love you' era has left me wanting to blow chunks frankly. :p If I say 'i love you' to a pal, it's a joke meaning 'thanks' for something. or it's an overtly manipulative joke trying to wangle something.

      Otherwise I don't throw it around. I love my children and my family and that's who I love.

      Yep this, plus I don't have any friends that I love in any case
    • Posts: 10,913 Member
      To friends, no. That's reserved for family and SOs.
    • Posts: 334 Member
      I tell my bf I love him! He tells me all the time but I think the words are precious and don't want to overuse them. I don't tell anyone else I love them but then again, I'm British lol!
    • Posts: 1,763 Member
      texting to someone of opposite gender at the end of a conversation something along the lines of "i love you babe" and they respond with "i love you too" to someone who is "just a good friend" that you have barely known a few months but have been working with closely.... :indifferent: :huh:
    • Posts: 18,996 Member
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      is this BFF a female or a male ? just curious

      Female and has been my BFF for the better part of a decade.

      While I do tell my close friends I love them, I have been friends with each of them for at least eight years, some as long as 14. I say it because I truly mean it. I don't chuck it around lightly.
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      texting to someone of opposite gender at the end of a conversation something along the lines of "i love you babe" and they respond with "i love you too" to someone who is "just a good friend" that you have barely known a few months but have been working with closely.... :indifferent: :huh:

      and this is something your boyfriend is doing to a girl other than you...?
    • Posts: 1,473 Member
      I read the thread title and now I've been earwormed by Extreme - More Than Words.

      Thanks......
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      I read the thread title and now I've been earwormed by Extreme - More Than Words.

      Thanks......

      and thanks for sharing....!!!!
    • Posts: 1,763 Member
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      and this is something your boyfriend is doing to a girl other than you...?

      something like that
    • Posts: 1,930 Member
      No only to my woman, or my kids or mother, that's it. But that's not to say it's wrong, it's just how I roll.
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      I'm the opposite I tell my best guy friend I love him, he started saying it first and has expressed that he has feelings for me, so i'be kinda given in and started saying it to him as well... I almost said it to my best girl friend tonight but thought it would be taken wrongly so I didn't but I do love her and now that I think about it, I have told her. So yes i say it to the ones I love.
    • Posts: 1,473 Member
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      and thanks for sharing....!!!!

      I'm taking you all down with me!!!!!
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
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      I'm taking you all down with me!!!!!

      yep...
    • Posts: 850 Member
      I tell my best friends that I love them. Not everytime we're together or talk but when I need to tell them or I think they need to be reminded. I've now been friends with each of them for more than half my life, one of them for the majority of my life : )

      The only coworker I tell I love them is my sister in law : /
    • Posts: 1,763 Member
      I'm the opposite I tell my best guy friend I love him, he started saying it first and has expressed that he has feelings for me, so i'be kinda given in and started saying it to him as well... I almost said it to my best girl friend tonight but thought it would be taken wrongly so I didn't but I do love her and now that I think about it, I have told her. So yes i say it to the ones I love.



      oh its you.....
    • Posts: 243 Member
      I've lost a lot of close people in my life so i've gotten used to telling really good friends I love them...
    • Posts: 1,763 Member
      I've lost a lot of close people in my life so i've gotten used to telling really good friends I love them...

      and that i understand
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