• Ya'll_Are_Bots (Tay)
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    3 days ago

    Me too ☺️

    I call my friend(s) regularly to just say some version of: “hey, I really fucking love you and you mean so much to me, I don’t think I get to be me unless I met you.”

    • Wandering
      2·
      3 days ago

      that’s really sweet. I should tell my friends I love them more 😊

      • Ya'll_Are_Bots (Tay)
        2·
        3 days ago

        Woohoo! Hell yes ✌🏻

        I’m going to use this giddy feeling as a motivation to gtfo of bed and start my day

        Thank you Nona 🫶🏻

    • Math_troon
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      3 days ago

      I never do that becuz I never learned to express love and my friends would call that gay as fuck anyways kek

      • Ya'll_Are_Bots (Tay)
        3·
        3 days ago

        I do it in part because I also never learned to express love in healthy ways, so it’s like, now that I’ve gotten the hang of it, I do it when the whim comes to me and it makes me feel full inside 😌 and as an added benefit, it keeps that muscle in shape so-to-speak

        • Math_troon
          1·
          3 days ago

          I would cringe so hard if I really tried to say I love you to someone icl :<

          I’m really affection starved…

          • Ya'll_Are_Bots (Tay)
            2·
            3 days ago

            Honestly I do understand, I was in my late 20’s the first time I ever said to or heard “I love you” from my father (my mother was a drunk so every night it was screaming about how selfish and ungrateful I was and then every morning it was teary eyed saccharine hungover I love you’s- so not much healthy modeling there either)

            It’s a thing that needs practice if you’re not in the habit of it, if I think back, I probably started with like that cheeky kind of “I fucking love you, you stupid fuck, thanks for calling me”, Also, playing around with the structure of it so that it’s not the quintessential “I Love You” can help make it feel less big and scary, like “Love you” , “Much Love”, “Love ya”

            Or with my brother (which has actually been the hardest) and also with some friends (I’m thinking of one with a partner) I usually will add a title onto it? so that it contextual and modifies the expression of love-

            “I Love you brother” “I Love you friend”

            So, I don’t think that your difficulty expressing it now, defines a future where you cannot express it in a way that fulfills you, keep in mind in like 1.5-2x as old as most people here, so I’ve had a lot of extra time to practice!!

            You can practice as well, you seem a self reflective young woman, and you have the desire, and I believe in you! 🫶🏻

      • Ya'll_Are_Bots (Tay)
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        3 days ago

        Like gay in a “I’m a male and never learned that it’s okay to feel things” way? Cause those fuckers need to hear it most of all!

        • Math_troon
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          3 days ago

          No those fuckers are cissies I need to hear it most ( ´-｀)

          (also I really don’t think they would care if they heard something like that from me they’d just laugh it off)

          • Ya'll_Are_Bots (Tay)
            1·
            3 days ago

            I think expressing genuine love is a good and healthy and healing thing too, disconnecting it from needing a necessary return is good too.

            And cis men definitely need to hear that shit, Don’t you remember what testosterone was like 😬

            It may make them squirm on the outside, but it’ll be good for them inside too I’d wager .

            I’m issuing you homework Nona! 😝

            Tell your friends you love them at least once in the next two weeks, don’t force it but don’t force it back either!