Saying "I Love You."

[blizzard]

I make sure that my girls and my wife hear me tell them I love them quite often. At bed time, on the phone, and especially when I am leaving the house or they are leaving. IF anything were to ever happen to me while I was gone. Those are the three words I would want them to remember as my last words. And after 13 years of marriage, they know that I still mean it sincerely.

[opera ghost]

I don't say it to my parents, not that I don't love them... it isn't easy for me to say. Perhaps that sounds silly, but I can't change the way I am. My mother says it more to me and my siblings than my father does. My mother and sister say it to each other every night, now when they are staying over for a visit for a number of days.

I do know what you mean- it took me years and years and years to get to the point where I could run up to my own dad and give him a hug while telling him I love him. We were very close when I was little- but we grew apart as I grew up and I love you just wasn't something that it was comfortable to say- not because I didn't but because it just wasn't comfortable to say.

[Pburgh]

I Love You. Three of the most important words you will ever say to anyone. Three of the most important words you will ever hear from anyone.

My father was very, very Scottish. The Ferguson Clan did not make a habit of showing any emotion. That is, not until one of the Ferguson boys (my Dad) married the little English Imm girl (my Mom). Well everything changed then. Papa and Grandma Ferguson got very used to the little grandkids running to them with big hugs and kisses and saying I love you.

Pretty soon it rubbed off. Grandma and Papa Ferguson and my Dad hugged us freely and without hesitancy. They could say I love you and really mean it.

Yes, kindness, caring and the show of emotion is contagious.