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Old 5th May 2008, 12:13 AM   #1
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Which one do you prefer?

I love you or I am in love with you?

What is the difference?
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Old 5th May 2008, 12:38 AM   #2
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From a MM? Neither!

How about: "I am not getting divorced. I don't love you, I won't love you, I will never love you. However, I will SAY whatever it takes to get in your pants and to get you to keep f*cking me even though I am married and never plan on getting divorced. I love f*cking with young girl's emotions and getting an ego boost from them. Keep feeding my ego and as long as you don't say anything to my wife, I will keep feeding yours and telling you what you want to hear and making you believe I will be getting divorced soon and that I am not in love with my wife anymore and that you are the love of my life... even though you aren't."

Yeah, that would have been nice to hear. Would have saved me a lot of heartache and strife.

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Old 5th May 2008, 12:54 AM   #3
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Depending on WHO says that

If a person is already married, even he said both things, it is still big NO NO, I don't believe it !!! I don't believe a person who cannot take responsibility for his own vows and lie on back of his wife

If a person is interity, honest, and his words match with his actions, then if he even doesn't say a word, I can trust him and sense his love from his actions
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Old 5th May 2008, 1:29 AM   #4
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I didnt get neither of those from xmm, although being a mw myself and being with him didnt change the fact that I still fell very much in love with him and it had nothing to do with sex because we didnt have much of it anyways, we didnt even have a long affair but it was HIM there was something about him that just swelled my heart up for him and now because of him its broken as well...i prefer both but only if its "real" .. i believe the difference is what we feel in our hearts everyone beleives in their own description of both of them so with that said i will just keep on feeling the way I do and hope someday someone worth while will return those feelings for me(my husband says he feels that way about me but as everyone states, actions speak louder then words so i dont beleive he does and although i love him its not the kind of love i feel is strong enough for a husband and wife)
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Old 5th May 2008, 9:05 AM   #5
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I'm curious, Nextel. Why are you doing these "fire and forget" threads? You start up a thread with an ambiguous question, and then the thread continues on and on without you participating in it at all.

Let me ask you...what's YOUR preference here, and why? What do YOU see as the difference between the two?
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Old 5th May 2008, 10:22 AM   #6
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For me its pretty simple.

I love you = what you say to family, friends, people who are a part of your life and have become close to you in ways that are far past what you get in a sexual or romantic relationship. It is caring and dependable, and usually objective. This is the more unconditional type.

I am in love with you = romantic or sexual relationship which may or may not graduate to 'I love you' in a true sense. It is fickle and purely subjective - and nearly entirely conditional.

Between the two? I prefer 'I love you'. That is what I have with my H. He was there for me in ways that no one else ever was or will be. 'I am in love with you' is what I had with my exBF, and he dumped me at a time when I needed him most.

'I love you' may not be as hot or exciting - but it is more durable and reliable, and nothing says it can't dip into the 'in love with' from time to time.
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Old 5th May 2008, 1:08 PM   #7
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I love you or I am in love with you?

What is the difference?
Why is it one or the other?

My lover's actions speak louder than his words, of both love and being in love. He's moved heaven and earth and all the other planets for us to be together, and so when he says it, I believe him.

And when I see the way he lights up when he sees me approach, I know he not only loves me, but is in love with me. I don't see why one has to supercede the other. I have both, in word and deed.
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Old 5th May 2008, 1:11 PM   #8
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Why is it one or the other?

My lover's actions speak louder than his words, of both love and being in love. He's moved heaven and earth and all the other planets for us to be together, and so when he says it, I believe him.

And when I see the way he lights up when he sees me approach, I know he not only loves me, but is in love with me. I don't see why one has to supercede the other. I have both, in word and deed.


This is the ideal. To have both, "in word and deed"

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Old 5th May 2008, 2:22 PM   #9
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Having once been a victim...

I had sex with a married woman only once, she had lied and told me she was divorced (I always ask the marriage question). The next morning she told me the truth and that ended it right then and there. So, being the victim of being the other man, neither. She'd best as heck stay in the sewer she crawled out of.


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Old 5th May 2008, 4:05 PM   #10
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My happiness and pleasure is important, but not at the expense of my honor and trustworthiness or common decenecy and respect of another.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR!!!
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Old 6th May 2008, 3:14 PM   #11
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My happiness and pleasure is important, but not at the expense of my honor and trustworthiness or common decenecy and respect of another.
Wow! If everyone felt this way, the world would truely be a better place.
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Old 6th May 2008, 4:30 PM   #12
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Wow! If everyone felt this way, the world would truely be a better place.

Yep - capitalism would implode and the american economy would collapse.
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Old 6th May 2008, 5:30 PM   #13
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Hey, Owoman. What country are you from? I figure its a fair question...so I can go ahead and take pokes at your country as well. All good, ya know?
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Old 6th May 2008, 9:43 PM   #14
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Yep - capitalism would implode and the american economy would collapse.

How the heck would capitalism implode and the American economy collapse if trustworthiness, common decency and respect were valued by most or all people?

I'm also curious as to what country you come from.
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Old 6th May 2008, 9:46 PM   #15
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I love you or I am in love with you?

What is the difference?
Right now I prefer 'I love you'.. I don't want them to be 'in love' with me..

I want them to reserve that to their wife..
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