by Volecia Plafcan

Created on: June 07, 2010

No one can hear the words "I love you" too much.  At least, some people think that way.  Others may think it mush but, hey, what if you say it to someone who hasn't heard it in a while?

You can be shy about saying it, but, just fling it over your shoulder as part of a conversation unless it IS just lust you feel and really don't love that person.  Even then, what difference would it make?

My family was not one for telling that to each other but, we did hug each other.  My sisters and I never hugged each other until later years when we had arrived or were leaving each other.  Then, one day, I liked the way this family told each other "I love you" as they went out the door or hung up a phone.  What did that hurt?

Trying it on my sisters was very difficult for me.  My mother never hugged us or told us she loved us but we knew she did. I guess.  One day, after talking with my older sister on the phone, I told her I loved her in a light hearted way and it caught her off guard.  She stammered around and said in a surprised way "Well, I love you, too."  Now, sometimes she beats me to saying it.

My son and daughter tell me they love me and of course, I tell them the same.

There is absolutely no way, unless you say it twenty times to the same person in thirty minutes, you can say "I love you" too much.

My teenage grandchildren will say it to me before bedtime and before leaving for school but, that is if I say it first.  But, I'm thinking what if I die in my sleep or something happens to them while being out?  This can happen and it has happened and people have regretted not telling them that they love them.

In church, people say to you "God bless you".  I believe this is a form of saying it since if you are in church everyone there is supposed to love one another.  Sometimes, they will smile and say "we love you".  It really makes you feel good and maybe they do and maybe they don't.  Did them saying that offend you?  Would you rather they have left you with a snarl and walk away not saying a word?

In closing, let me say "I love you all".

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