A short post by Gaz: ‘enjoy’… and / or think!
‘I’ Love You’
I meet marrieds and others who say ‘love you’ to friends or partners or in comedy when you can’t say the L word ‘luff luff luff’.
There is an innate power, a deeply personal work and energy in adding the ‘I’.
How comfortable are we with I Love You !
Where might we bring back the weighty ‘I’ to those we more comfortably risk ‘love you’ or manage discomfort by reducing our regard for someone to other phrases.
Oddly though, and perhaps a different strand, it is often not the loss of love which breaks apart a relationship but something less explored, the loss of like.
Not liking is corrosive but we cannot create like, it is the responsibility of the self or other to be likeable. We can love, convey love, but where do you tell those you love that you like them. When was the last time someone articulated they like you. We can love without like, love can remain long after like has flown. Are we left to read between the lines as to how likeable we might be, guessing that love also means like.
I told a new friend recently, ‘I like you, thank you for your friendship’, they stood up and hugged me.