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by Kevin — Age 25 — Berkeley, CA
I didn’t want to say it but it came out as we were wrestling in bed: “I love you.”
We had only been dating three days and I was trying hard not to say it, no matter how much I wanted to.
I’ve said the same three words millions of times before you came along. I always felt the need to say it when seeing someone; I thought that’s how people in relationships talked to each other. When I said it the first time to my very first girlfriend she replied, “Uhh yeah, okay.”
Every time after that was a disaster. It seemed like every time I said it doomed the relationship I was in. Once was because I cheated, another time because she cheated and a few years after that because she beat the shit out of me and went to jail. “I love you” meant a certain and impending end.
But you just laughed and later, you even said it back. Three years later I have yet to regret it.
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