Reaction to "I love you"

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If someone said "I just want to love you" my response would be "then love me" or I might be thinking they were going to follow it with "but...." It seems like that person wants to love you but something is preventing them. Much different than "I love you" to which I would respond "I love you too".

it is clear to this clueless aspie that the OP loves her aspie man, and that he knows she loves him.

Maybe so, and that's awesome. I just think it can be interpreted in different ways. I've never told anyone that and have never been told that so it's a little foreign to me.

I agree with several other responders. "I just want to love you" would be terribly confusing to me, it sounds like something that could be said in the middle of a heated argument. It almost reads accusatory.

My partner had to "force" the 'I love you' out of me. It is a very difficult concept and I do not fare well with complex emotions. I was feeling it, I just did not know how to verbalize it accurately. Now we have an agreement that I can hug him really tightly and he will know what I mean to say.

I realise you didn't mean it this way, but "I just want to love you" sounds like you're applying pressure. It sounds accusing, as if the other person isn't doing something right and that they should correct it.

I would clarify what you meant ASAP.

You're destined to be permanently alone with that attitude. It's what you deserve.

If a girl told me she wanted to love me, I'd tell her to try harder then.

I would never interpret "I just want to love you" as saying you love me.
At best, I'd interpret it as you feeling strongly, caring deeply, but falling just short of loving, and regretting not being able to get to that point. Or at worst, that you would b able to love me if I were just more beautiful/kinder/smarter/funnier/'normal'/better in bed/thinner/bigger boobs/smaller boobs/more athletic/whatever...
Quite frankly, it would break my heart if someone I loved/was falling in love with, said that to me.

It sounds like something off an action film, the hero is off to do something stupid he turns to his wife "I love you babe" she says "i just want to love you, but your making it impossible"
i just want to love you is NOT i love you, im struggling to find anyone who would interpret it as that..
the dude has a right to be confused tbf, if you said "I love you" then it would be clear, I just want to love you, implies you wish to love him but are incapable for some reason