Saying “I Love You” With No Words

Actions are more powerful than words

Britanny Levy
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“I Love You” is far more profound than a beautiful statement.

Everybody adores listening to “I Love You”; most of us remember the first time we heard it from our loved one.

But saying “I Love You” is easy: it's merely wording. This emotional sentence can be used as an expression of feelings but also manipulatively: a person trying to be forgiven, to have sex or whatever crosses their (unethical) mind.

Throughout my 46 years, I’ve been involved in a few relationships, but the deepest and most meaningful was with my late partner. We were together for 13 years. Until surgery ended all. One day, he was gone.

No relationship is perfect, and mine certainly wasn’t. We had our ups and downs, we had stupid arguments and fights.

At one point — when I embraced my self-knowledge path — our personal paths and beliefs seemed to have gone in different directions; I went through some questioning. But I got answers, and they never took me away from him. I

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Britanny Levy
Scribe

Professional domestic abuse advocate by day; a writer by night and a street photographer in my free time. A counsellor in the make.