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Our story is very similar to OPs. We were on our first holiday together and were just laying in the bed enjoying the post glow of a massage and chatting when FI gets all hesitant, took him about 5 minutes and then he says "I don't want to freak you out..." gets all quiet again so I am lying there thinking all this bad stuff ie he cheated, he's really a woman, he's married, has a tribe of kids etc hahaha then he finally says "I love you" was so cute. I just replied with a I love you too and glad you said it cos I have been trying to find a way to tell you since Xmas (which was about 3-4 weeks earlier when I had realised omg this is the guy for me) pretty sure it then moved into a "who knew first" discussion hahaha

I think our story is the cutest, dorkiest thing ever, but maybe I'm biased. ;)

We were sitting on his bed playing some postcoital minecraft, as usual. I had borrowed his computer the week before and played on his account while I was bored at a baby shower, and I dug a hole in the shape of a heart all the way down to the bedrock. I guess since then, he had gone back to that map and added to it, carving "I <3 you Christine" into the ground, and lit it with torches. Then he built a tower and stood on it so the whole thing was in view. He showed it to me and I started freaking out at how romantic that was, and then he told me he loves me! :) I of course told him I love him too, it was just perfect! And so us.

We were in a sort-of LDR at the time, and I text him "I love you" he responded with something about I love you too, and I responded "No you don't, you just said it because I said it first." It's one of our funnier memories :) 

Haha, mine was the opposite as you. My fi was the one that blurted it out to me while sitting on the couch after we had sex the first time. Lol. I just said "Thank you". And after that day, he kept saying it to me and giving me these piercing eyes that were telling me to say it back. I just...couldn't. It didn't feel genuine if I had said it right after he did. So I waited two weeks (I wasn't counting) and said it to him. =]

I love all of these sweet and unique stories! 

My SO was early at spilling the "I love you" beans. We had been dating about three weeks (?) when we were hanging out in the park on the grass as the sun went down. I was laying on the grass and he propped himself up on his elbow and started giving me little kisses. With each kiss, he's say something he liked about me, like "You're sweet.  You're smart." I don't exactly remember any of those because he finished it off with "...and I love you." 

I said it back about a week later. I told him my head was telling me to wait, to take it slow, but that my heart and everything inside me was shouting "I Love You!". 

I told my FI i loved him first...in a text message hahah. I'd never told a guy I loved him before and was super scared of being shut down or just saying it in person so I text him...but he told me it doesnt count until I say it in person so we exchanged I love you's in the standing cooler at his job haha. VERY COLD!

We were an online relationship, and had moved on to talking on the telephone every night (long distance).  I really, really wanted to tell him, but was afraid he didn't feel the same way.  He could tell I had something I wanted to tell him, and told me to just say it.  So I did.  And he told me he loved me too.  

I actually recently read a study that said in heterosexual relationships, men tend to say "I love you" before the females by a couple of weeks (I think I remember that correctly - it was at least a few weeks, more than just a day or so). I just told mypartner about that study the other night, and it turns out I was the first time he said it first. Anyway, on to the story. I'd been thinking about how I felt about my partner for two or so weeks - I'd gone out of town for a conference and so many things went wrong. Te whole time I kept thinking about how much I missed him and at one point was bawling in my hotel bathroom on the phone with him and almost told him I loved him when I hung up the phone. So I came over to my partner's house and we were going to a concert - I was super nervous b/c it was going to be my first time meeting a ton of his friends who he's close to (and he was also friends with the band). After the concert, he wanted another drink (I had to be up early to teach) and grab some food. That's when he started to act a little weird. On the ride home he was acting super weird and not like himself at all, and I was thinking he wanted to break up with me. In the driveway he grabbed my hand and said he wouldn't go inside until he said something to me and he understood if I left him, blah blah blah. He just kept blathering on and I finally had to be like "JUST SAY IT. WHAT THE HELL?" and he was shaking! He told me he was in love with me and he understood if I kicked him out of my car and wanted to drive away. I told him I was in love too when we were in the house. I just remember standing in the kitchen with no lights on, and he actually started crying. He was married about 6 years ago, and they divorced after less than 10 months (and she cheated on him). He hadn't been in any serious relationships since then and never thought he'd be in love again. I'm also divorced and also thought I'd never be in love again. 

These are so cute! Aw, it makes me happy. 

We were seniors in high school and it was after a football game. Not too exciting, haha.