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hexed (original poster member #19258) posted at 7:37 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
TG and I say it. But not a lot. Sometimes not even every day and not every time we talk. Its not a casual thing for us.
I see a lot of people who say it all the time. At the end of every phone call. My X and I did a lot of that.
What the normal? Why? Good/Bad otherwise? What are your thoughts?
But that's just a lot of water
Underneath a bridge I burned
And there's no use in backtracking
Around corners I have turned
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” -foulton oursler
AStar ( member #39971) posted at 8:11 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
There is no right or wrong amount of times to say it. Whatever you are comfortable with. And different people have different tolerances for expressing their love verbally.
Before DDay, I guess it was often, probably a minimum of 5 exchanges a day in different situations. Quite often. I would love it in the morning when the alarm went off and after WH switched it off he would roll back over and kiss me behind my ear and say I love you... Never good morning.
Now since DDay I haven't said it once. WH has said it, I just can't.
Me BS (41)
Him WH (45). EA and possible PA (denied)
D Day 7/21/2013
M 8 years - filing for D
**The cruelest lies are often told in silence- Robert Louis Stevenson
She11ybeanz ( member #27457) posted at 8:12 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
I am not in a new relationship YET... (but definitely keeping my sights on my new Spanish Doctor conquest.... 
) BUT, when I was with my XWH, I said I love you all the time...but felt it kinda lost its meaning and luster and became more of an expected thing than meaningful thing.....
I noticed with Piper's sperm donor that I said it a lot less.... and I have already decided that it is not a phrase I will throw around in any future relationships.
When I say it next..... you can bet your life that I will mean each and every word... intrusively..
"Sometimes your knight in shining armor ...is just a douchebag in tin foil!!"
ME - BW - 35
HIM - XWH - 39
D day: November 15th, 2009
Married: 5 Years, together 8
Divorced: December 13th, 2010
New Beginning: Piper/8-3-12
Dawnie ( member #26912) posted at 8:16 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
XWH and I said it daily for the first 10+ years... after that for the remaining 15 years of our relationship it was rare....
New husband and I say it several times a day: upon waking, before leaving for work, at the end of every call, a few times in between and always before we roll over to go to sleep.... 
DIVORCED! Remarried to a real man!
BW (me) - 41 (now 48)
WH (him) - 43 (now 50)
OW - 23 yr old foreign gold digging whore looking for her American meal ticket
1 14 yr old son (now 21)
married 20 years/together 25 years
D day - 9/23/2009 5pm
Crescita ( member #32616) posted at 9:56 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
We exchange them several times a day. We both end phone conversations with family that way too. I don't think it is a big deal either way as long as you know it and feel it and don't mind hearing or saying it.
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Newlease ( member #7767) posted at 10:02 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
SO and I say it multiple times a day. XWH and I said it very rarely. He was not a demonstrative type of person.
I love my SO and I love to say it and hear it.
NL
Even if you can't control the world around you, you are still the master of your own soul.
inconnu ( member #24518) posted at 12:07 AM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
SO and I say it just about every day, sometimes several times a day. It is not a casual expression. We mean it, each time we say it. We both make the effort to not take what we have together for granted, a lesson we both learned from our previous marriages.
There is no joy without gratitude. - Brené Brown
trumanshow ( member #25624) posted at 1:39 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Said it with my STBXH 4-5x/day for 25+ years. even when he turned out to be leading a dougle life 
remarried 11-15-15
Her prize is a man who ran out on his wife and children. His is a woman who is too stupid to understand that she is not special, she is simply there.
Williesmom ( member #22870) posted at 6:27 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
With my Wxh, maybe once a week.
Since then, not to anyone. 
I have been dating the current man for 8 months. I don't know if I'll every be able to say it again. To anyone.
You can stuff your sorries in a sack, mister. -George Costanza
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. - Madeleine Albright
Walt ( member #747) posted at 6:38 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Every day, multiple times.
This will sound a little sappy but I don't care. We moved in together about 3 months ago so it's nicest saying it waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night.
At mile 20 I thought I was dead. At mile 22 I wished I was dead. At mile 24 I knew I was dead. At mile 26.2 I realized I had become too tough to kill
InnerLight ( member #19946) posted at 8:57 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
BS, 64 yearsD-day 6-2-08D after 20 years together
The journey from Armageddon to Amazing Life happens one step at a time. Don't ever give up!
NaiveAgain ( member #20849) posted at 9:59 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Several times a day, and he initiates about 80% of the time. Also, one thing he does which means a lot...>I get distracted or distance sometimes. Old traumas/wounds and I will go into my shell from time to time. If he feels me doing that, he will say I love you and if I don't answer back with full feeling, he will gently say it again and again until he brings me back. It is so important to me that he works this hard to keep a deep emotional connection and also to him.
Original WS D-Day July 10, 2008. Kept lying, he is gone.
New WS (2 EA's, no PA) 12-3-13
If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree.
Betrayal ( member #9898) posted at 11:12 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
H and I both say it several times a day, we both tell our parents ILY ending a phone call as well. I also tell DS3 all the time as well. I feel like you never know what could happen, so I say it because if something ever did happen those could be the last words we hear each other say kwim? Kind of corny, but saying ILY several times a day doesn't have any less meaning(for us at least). Obviously actions speak volumes, there are alot of people who say it and don't mean it, frequency is kind of an individual(couple) thing.
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Me,38 BS
Divorced
Married
DS Born 9/6/10
Crescita ( member #32616) posted at 11:26 PM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
but saying ILY several times a day doesn't have any less meaning(for us at least)
Same here. I might feel differently if all the of ILYs were routine, but they aren't all said in passing.
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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