How do you say I LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD
By rajupaul
@rajupaul (973)
India
September 16, 2009 10:18am CST
Dear loter
Today suddenly it come to mind and heart support that Have we ever say to our parents that I LOVE YOU MOM & DAD. Yes in the childhood we used to say to our parents but this after getting married or falling love we forget to say I love you dad and mom. Loter please share your views.
Raju Paul
16/09/09
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27 responses
@jheLaichie (4438)
• Philippines
16 Sep 09
when i was younger, i would truly felt a shyness of how i would express and tell my parents how i love them. and it will always comes out that they dont matter where infact they are my model, my life and my love forever. by now i am more expressive with what i feel. i do told them i love them in many different ways. through words, works and in deed.
jhelai
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@jheLaichie (4438)
• Philippines
16 Sep 09
thanks so much as well my friend raju!!! and i hope you could as well be as expressive as i am right now. because it is really important that we always let our parents know how much we love them truly. and we all cannot live this long in this world... so let us all live life to the fullest always!
jhelai
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
17 Sep 09
You should say it when you can. You never know when you will lose a person and words left unsaid hurt so much more than anything you have already said. If you don't tell them how you feel occasionally, you'll regret it when they are gone.
Here in America, "I love you" has become meaningless. People say it every time they leave a person's house or before they hang up the phone. It's become the equivalent of "have a nice day". It's over-usage has cheapened it and robbed it of real meaning. Nevertheless, I tell my parents I love them about once a month and send them cards occasionally. I see my dad and stepmother twice a month and talk to my mom on the phone about that often, she lives in another state.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
My family is not as emotionally expressive. I don't say I love you mom or I love you dad. Neither do my siblings nor aunts nor cousins. But we bless each other and say God bless you. That is perhaps our way of saying I love you. My clan is just like any family - full of issues and misunderstandings - but hey! we stomach eating with each other in an eat-all-you-can and have a good laugh. My dad is in the hospital now fighting for his life. My mom is exhausted from fatigue. Running back and forth from the hospital to home is physically stressful for a 74 year old. And my dad's erratic condition is just dampening her spirit. I love my mom and I love my dad. I could not have verbally said it but I know that deep down, they know.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
They are an ocean away. But I sent photographs to put smiles on their faces. They know love and kisses are tucked inside the envelope.
@tintukm (1102)
• India
18 Sep 09
IS there a feeling these days like that too,the needs are always been made to complete for us by them.Well our parents would need the small words of affection and care,that I LOVE YOU,the love and desires may even be hidden in the hearts of ours and we would not express it as such to our parents,but there aren't any problems with the parents who have been like friends all day from our start.
The after marriage issues are always in connection with our beloved parents and most of the time this gets spoil when the person we are engaged with for he rest of our life do not adjust with our parents.
But we all should be there for our parents,right.
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@tintukm (1102)
• India
20 Sep 09
Most of us do not say openly I love you mother or father.
The happiness at the extreme also would make us say share the happiness and we wouldn't acknowledge them by a treat saying 'I love you',that's all,the emotions are always hidden in times like this,for word I specify,love shown is different though.
@coolcat123 (4387)
• India
16 Sep 09
I know that i cannot say them directly so I want to do something great to make them feel proud.Once they get that their child has done everything for them,then they will surely realise that u love them the most in your life.
I agree that after marriage especially the guys change and his mom and dad becomes his second priority.But thats a universal truth and we cannot change someones feelings to be more possessive for others.
The guys should think again and again about this and give their parents as much importance they give to their gf or wife.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
well, i used to make cards about it when they're celebrating their birthdays.or saying thank you or kissing them in the cheek and hugging them when am happy. that's how i express my love to my mom and dad. too bad my dad lives abroad now and i had to tell him how much i love him
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
16 Sep 09
My family is extremely close, and in light of the fact that I lost my father at a very young age, I never forget to tell my mother that I love her. We talk on the telephone at least one time every day and I always end the conversation with telling her "I love you." When we go over to her house, whenever we are getting ready to leave I always give her a hug and a kiss. The reasoning ultimately for all of this is that she is my mother and I have her to thank for giving me life and raising me into the woman that I am today.
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@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
17 Sep 09
hi rajupaul,
i always make my parents feel so loved, important and remembered. "iloveyou" is always part of our conversation (face-to-face, phone and text). they too always make me loved and special. they always tell me how lucky they are for having a daughter like me. same with me, i am so proud of them for being my parents!this made me miss my dad... he passed away last december 2008. he will always be remembered and never was a time that i forgot to tell him iloveyou dad!
@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
16 Sep 09
I think...their is a good way to say i love you mom and dad..when you are feel very very happy..or any of your wish is accepcted by your parent's..then you can say...them i love you..in the place of thanx...i thinh it is the best way to say i love you mom and dad..
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@duane_madriaga (12)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
rajupaul... nice topic!
am not a vocal person... i used to show them i love them... that's it... to become a good girl for them is enough... and I'll do help them until it's time for them to go..i owe them everything and I'll serve them until they need me...because forever is not enough to return everything they've done for us... Love my parents! :)
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@dncmanning (770)
• United States
16 Sep 09
We have a pretty close family and I tell my parents everyday that I love them. We don't hang up the phone without saying it- it just isn't done. I love you- the words are simple but so many families have a hard time expressing them but not us.
My husbands family is a little different and I have asked him about it often- he just always says it wasn't something they did- but he does it all the time- I don't leave the room let alone the house without hearing "I love you".
And after 13+ years together I have just started saying it to his parents when we get off the phone- at first I admit it was a little odd but now they say it too. So I guess its like anything else in life- practice saying, keep saying it, and well... It'll catch on.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
17 Sep 09
I never forgot to say I love you too my parents and I'm now 52 years old. I can talk to my parents 2 or 3 times in a day and still each time I hang up the phone I always say "I love You" or "I love you both".
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@gracefuldove (1668)
• Malaysia
16 Sep 09
Yes, I do most of the time. I will hug them when I see them. Whenever there is time, I will visit them. Since Oriental families do not say " I love you" easily, their actions will show the love. Body language is very important in Asian societies.
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@prikayjo2436 (699)
• United States
16 Sep 09
Hey rajupal,
As for myself, my mother and I are very close friends! I would never have imagined the relationship that we have today while growing up. She is literally my best friend I would not have it any other way. If I don't see her everyday I at-least call her, and at the end of our conversations we always tell each other that we love one another. I know that it might be a little corny but I think its a cute relationship that I have with my mother now. I think that everyone should have good relationships with their parents. It is such a beautiful thing to have!
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