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I’m on the stage of saying these words now. I am in love and yeah, I am.

I love you.

Simple words. Just three simple words… but they mean so much. In the beginning of a relationship, it’s all you can think about. When will he say it? How will he say it? Is he feeling it yet? Why is it taking so long? And God forbid he says it too soon. Or you say it first and he doesn’t return it. With those three words, timing is everything.

You have to be confident of the “I love you return.” What happens when you say it too soon and it isn’t returned? It just hangs out there, a big silence waiting to be filled. If you say those three words and he doesn’t return them, where do you go from there? Do you break up? Wait a little longer and hope he eventually says them? And how much resentment will build up in that short time span?

Love is not something that has to be returned. It is something you feel, deep in your heart. If I love someone, that is a gift. It is my happiness and he cannot take it away from me no matter how he feels. But there’s a time to feel it and a time to actually say the words, and the two don’t necessarily coincide.

So many people wait for that one big moment — a moment when they look at the other person and know, without a doubt, that it is love. But what I am proposing today is that there is no one big moment. Love is not something that “just happens.” It is something that begins to build from the moment you meet the person and continues throughout the relationship.

You see someone across the room. There’s an instant attraction. One of you makes the first move and you find yourself talking. The connection is immediate. He takes your number and you wait for that first phone call. Then the first date. The first kiss, first… everything else. He’s on your mind every day; in fact, during this early stage you’re probably more enamored by him than you will be years down the road, when your only thoughts of him are to wonder if he remembered to pick up the dry cleaning on the way home.

But it’s not really love. Not yet. That’s what some people say anyway. True love takes time. How long, though? Two months? Six months? A year?

As long as it takes for you to be comfortable saying the words. The truth is, you began the process of falling in love the instant you laid eyes on each other. Oh sure, it wasn’t love. More like lust which turned to infatuation which brought on more lust… But, if it continues, it’s all part of that gradual process of falling in love.

When was the first moment I knew I was in love with him? I don’t really know, actually:

We met once and began texting after few weeks. We were not even flirting. I don’t really know how it all happened. All I know is that were just texting and talking and then eventually we both feel IT. I know it’s too early to say and claim things but I’m not gonna let this confusions be the hindrance for me to say “I Love You” because I really do.

You know the funny thing? It was only this morning that we shared our true names. Just 7 or 8 blog entries before I wrote about my Single Relationship now I’m here. Funny and I don’t care!

Lemme share you this also. 100 ways to say I Love You.

English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak [to male]
Arabic - Ana behibek [to female]
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M’bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T’estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru [to male]
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki’
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t’aime, Je t’adore
Frisian - Ik hâld fan dy
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S’agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah [to female]
Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha [to male]
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i’ ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh’ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
*** Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te iubesc
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ [represents position of fingers when signing’I Love You’]
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun [to male]
Thai - Phom rak khun [to female]
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo [the best way]
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em [to female]
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh [to male]
Welsh - ‘Rwy’n dy garu di
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe

My favorite? The Pandacan way - Syota na kita!!! Siyota na kita Angelbert Aguilar.