That one very significant moment...

[Lirael]

Gosh, I can't remember the first time I said 'I love you' to Chris.

I think we used hearts and roses in instant messages and texts for a while first, sort of easing into it. In doing that, we showed one another that we were heading towards that feeling, but didn't actually say it before it meant something.

The only boyfriend I can remember saying these words to for the first time is actually the boyfriend I never loved and never could have loved. Basically, he was a sexist douche and only wanted to have his ego stroked and have sex as he pined for someone else. He said the words to me at the bus stop and I just said them back because I didn't want to embarrass him. That was my shortest and stupidest relationship. I feel very ashamed of myself for ever entering into it.

[Mermaid]

I first said it to my then-boyfriend, now-fiance about two weeks in, too. I said it first, and he said it about a week later because he was too shy apparently xD
I realised I was in love a few days before I said it. Something about him was just amazing to me, I couldn't quite put my finger on what, but I know I had fallen pretty hard. Still the same now, I am glad to say.

[Dr. King Schultz]

I've never been the first person to say "I love you" I'm not really a romantic but I kind of think you should save those words for when you're sure otherwise they just lose their meaning. Though I've only ever said it to two guys and both times I didn't mean it, I just said it to shut them up... so I guess the meaning was already lost haha

Sam my ex said those horrible words 3 months into dating, and I refused to say it back because I wasn't sure, it took me literally a year before I finally said it back and that was because he was getting upset at me over it. He'd always say it and I'd be like "That's nice.....>_>"

I'd love to eventually find someone to say those words to and actually mean it. Plenty time though, plenty, plenty.

[Liebchen]

I've never been the first person to say "I love you" I'm not really a romantic but I kind of think you should save those words for when you're sure otherwise they just lose their meaning...

I'm the same exact way. My ex that I had been in the longest relationship with said it after only a month of us dating...and he said it at a really awkward moment which made it really uncomfortable for me. I didn't say I love you back because I really didn't feel that way for him. In the months that we went out I think he maybe said it once more without me returning the sentiments and we ended up breaking up not too long after that.

If you ever feel forced to say it its not the same...and if you say it too often the meaning of it does lose its value.

I've never been a mushy/romantic person either so I suppose that doesn't help