fondness,
intimate and mutual
appreciation,
best-friendship
all mean more than love
– especially when combined.
Certainly, I would rather be
appreciated than loved,
perhaps because I felt loved
rather than appreciated
as a child,
and would rather be
(and have been) treasured
than measured.
2 comments:
Well said. I always maintained that saying I love you means very little unless is accompanied by doing loveable things.
Yes, Jindřich, I love you is, at the very least, a very lazy and sloppy generalisation. Much better to say what you love in and about the person or canine in question.
– The Sometimes Lover of Silence
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