I’m having L-word troubles, but my troubles don’t involve a lover. I’ve told him I love him probably five or six times now, but he never says it back. When people say, “I love you,” especially for the first time, there are a number of things they may be saying. Maybe it’s, “Do you love me?” (the question smuggled inside the confession), or, more urgently, “Please love me.”With Kichi, it’s not like that. I don’t need to ask for his love.

Source: New York Times May 10, 2019 03:56 UTC