Do you always say "I love you" to your parents?

when i come across this discussion,i can't help having a look at you guys' ideas.i also feel pity that i have never said "i love you" to my parents.I don't konw why!THOUGH i love them deeply in my heart,i just can't express it to them through mouth as you said!I think this have someting to do with our own cluture.ASIANS are more likely to underlie their inner feeling and to show it through other things like a gift or a action.but i think if you can speak it out,you can show our feelings clearly.you know misunderstanding happens when we say nothing.

I always tell my parents I love them. I never miss anoccassion for that. Sometimes it's a random comment. Sometimes it follows an admission of guilt (yeah, I did forget to do it, yeah I kinda messed up). Sometimes it follows a plea (when I want something and am not sure I'll get it). And sometimes it doesn't follow anything, but I feel like I haven't said that in a long time and my parents might forget. It's silly yes, but words are very important to me (mostly becauseI'm awriter and I know how much power a word can carry). I just want my parents to know that I love them no matter what. And I know that they feel the same way about me.

It is almost the same in china. If someone really said this, someone else would possible say 'yuck!" . Meanwhile, they must think there is something wrong. U know, people don't have to say it. Why not use your actions to justify your words that u are supposed to say.

Yes. Only my mother is still living and I tell her often that I love her. I also tell my daughter and grandaughter that I love them everyday. They also tell me the same.

you what? once in a blue moon i say i love you to my parents.. were a broken family. not like you in malaysia. in philippines we dont believe in tradition like that. because im not the only type of person whos been experiencing that. theres so many people around here are broken family. but you know what id like to ask a question to you? how do you do that? you know im shy when i say i love you to my parents.. but really i love them.

Hi, I am from India and I also come from a traditional family. The only time we hug, kiss or show affection is when we are separating from each other for studies or holidays...Also I am too shy to display affection to my parents, and I am too shy to tell them 'I Love you' though I do love them very much. I stopped kissing them Goodnight at the age of seven because I started feeling shy and awkward. I am a bit of an introvert and cannot express my feelings so well. We all love each other but obvious displays of affection are not common in our day-to-day lives.

yes, i always tell my parents i love them. every night i kiss them on the forehead and say good night, i love you. thats how it should be lol i think.. i love my parents and i want them to know that so i always tell them and they always tell me. even if they are just leave to go to the store or something.. my mom will usually always tell me she loves me.

i always ring my mother at least a few times a day and i make a point of telling her i love her each time we speak or meet im a great believer in taking every opportunity to tell those you love how you feel and doing it often as you never know when you may get the chance to do so again.

I dont even think i say "I love you" to my parents. I think it would be awkward. I hug them and everything but im just not comfortable saying "I love you".

I have never said I love you to either my dad or mom (passed away). It just seems to be understood. Maybe because I don't ever remember them saying to me. Yet with my daughters it comes easy and naturally and we often say that to each other. I spent a lot of time with my children while my parents were too busy working and we fended for ourselves. Maybe why the difference.

Even in Africa there is no difference still going traditional way of life where you can't hug your mom, if you dare do that you'll be scared with so many taboos, but am happy that things are changing slowly but with time all this taboos will be of no more

I love and respect my parents, but in my country, we don't say " I love you " to each other at random. Even if the one is the lover, we seldom say so. Once when I was at college, the New Year's coming and I was excited to send greeting cards to my parents, brothers and sisters, they didn't have any response. Maybe you'll say it's wierd, but it's the custom, we have our greeting ways.

Hi fellow Malaysian. I 'did' often say "i love you" to my parent(in my mother language) But i am 18 now, and saying such word seem weird to me. Its not like i have a bad relationship with my my parent, it just i feel shy to say those word, haha

nope...'m not all that emotionally close to my parents. Of course i love my parents but i dont know how to express it...but the thing that matters is that they luv me and they know i luv them too....

oh not really, sometimes actions speaks louder than words. I do believe thatmy parents are smart enough to feel my love to them through my actions. They know that everything i did is for them. that's why i won't let them down just to make them feel that i love them even though i am not often says i love them.

I never miss an opportunity to tell my mother "I love you". It is a daily occurance. I am glad to be able to let her know how I feel. And she says it in return. Life is too short not to. You never know what may happen. I feel better expressing it.

i love to my partner but there can be differance of openion between us we cannot talk for one or two days but live together .but talk to each other with love. our love is for ever.

I grew up with my grandparents and emotionally i am not too close to my parents compare to my grandparents. Sometimes, i am saying "I Love You" to them but i feel ackward coz i never do it often. But i do kiss my mom always but to my father i feel stranger to do it, i remember i kiss him every xmas and his birthday but not always. Happy posting.

A lot of Filipinos are really emotional. We usually say what we feel. Yes, I do tell my parents that I love them every chance I get. Last year, my dad suffered a stroke. Before that happened I was thinking that I have said everything that I've always wanted to tell him. I thought I have already shown him all the love I've got to give to a father... I guess, when that time came, I felt there were still so much more left unsaid and so much more loving I needed to show. Thank God my dad's better now...