‘I love you’ and ‘I miss you’ are among the typical three-word phrases you may love to hear if you’re falling for someone new. But one woman claims her boyfriend keeps repeating a very strange expression – and she’s unsure how to go forward
Three startling words are plaguing one woman’s relationship – and she’s unsure what they truly mean.
‘I love you’ and ‘I miss you’ are among the typical three-word phrases you may love to hear if you’re falling for someone new. But one 25-year-old woman claims she’s been completely thrown off guard by her boyfriend’s unusual expression – and now, she’s unsure what do do.
At first, she thought it was a mistake – that she’d misheard him, or he’d simply stuttered on his words. However, this no longer seems like a plausible explanation, as he’s now said it too many times to count. “When we get in fights he’ll say things like ‘I loved you’ or sometimes when we’re talking on the phone and I’ll say ‘I love you’ he’ll say ‘I loved you’ back,” she said, taking anonymously to Reddit.
“It makes me feel really self conscious and unsure of myself.” One instance of this apparently occurred earlier in the week, when the boyfriend cancelled their plans and went out drinking instead.
She explained: “I asked him: ‘Why he keeps wanting to date me when it seems like he doesn’t like spending time with me[?’]… And he said it was ‘because I loved you’.
“Another example is today on the phone we were just talking about our day and I ended the call by saying: ‘I love you’, and he said ‘I loved you’. How do I fix this problem or approach him about this?”
Unsurprisingly, the anonymous confession soon racked up hundreds of comments on the platform, with various users claiming there’s something quite fishy about his behaviour. One wrote: “You dump him because he wants to play this stupid game to put you down and make you cling to him.”
Another added: “It keeps you on your toes, desperate to find the magic thing that will make him love you again. He’s giving you emotional crumbs instead of the whole cookie,” as someone else warned: “This is early coercion. Leave him.”
Amid this, the writer shortly sent her boyfriend a text explaining how the ‘I loved you’ fiasco was affecting her. His response was gobsmacking.
She unveiled: “He sent me a voice message saying: ‘So now it’s not just your brain that’s messed up, it’s also your ears.’ I feel like I’m not going to be able to get any further with this and should just give up so I don’t make him angry.”
Once again, worried users were quick to jump in and advise her, with one writing: “Please, please respect and love yourself enough to realise that being treated this way is not okay and that you deserve better.”
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