How to respond to “I love you more”? I don’t consider…
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How to respond to “I love you more”?
I don’t consider myself to be socially inept or anything, but there is one thing that I just genuinely struggle to grapple with. It’s very sweet and all and I want to be clear that I am NOT complaining about this, but my mom likes to say “I love you more!” and she seems disappointed when I don’t argue about it. This woman carried me for 9 months, literally pushed me out of her own dang body, and then went on to love me unconditionally for literally my entire life. How the hell do I argue with that level of love and devotion?
And this is where I start veering into Spock territory. I love my mom more than she could ever truly know, but I just don’t feel compelled to nor do I like to argue “no, I love YOU more!“. It just feels… I don’t know. Not disingenuous, but tiresome and pointless, maybe?
Anyway, I feel bad for not knowing how to respond to this. I always just tell her what I said above “well you pushed me out of your hoo-ha, how can I argue with that?” and that always makes her laugh. I just feel like she really wants me to respond in a different way, and I have no idea what that is supposed to be.
What should I be saying in response?
#relationships
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I don’t consider myself to be socially inept or anything, but there is one thing that I just genuinely struggle to grapple with. It’s very sweet and all and I want to be clear that I am NOT complaining about this, but my mom likes to say “I love you more!” and she seems disappointed when I don’t argue about it. This woman carried me for 9 months, literally pushed me out of her own dang body, and then went on to love me unconditionally for literally my entire life. How the hell do I argue with that level of love and devotion?
And this is where I start veering into Spock territory. I love my mom more than she could ever truly know, but I just don’t feel compelled to nor do I like to argue “no, I love YOU more!“. It just feels… I don’t know. Not disingenuous, but tiresome and pointless, maybe?
Anyway, I feel bad for not knowing how to respond to this. I always just tell her what I said above “well you pushed me out of your hoo-ha, how can I argue with that?” and that always makes her laugh. I just feel like she really wants me to respond in a different way, and I have no idea what that is supposed to be.
What should I be saying in response?
#relationships
source
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