We’ve all heard, texted, or said, “I love you more” to a significant other, family member or friend. Sometimes the conversations go a little bit overboard with the “I love you more, no I love you more!” and by that time you’re wishing they had stopped. What I didn’t realize until today is that this phrase is capable of meaning so much more than “I love you more than you love me”.

I generally try to avoid the sappy stuff, but when it comes to family, friends or people a person truly cares about, I believe that it is so very important to let these people know how much they are loved and adored.

I love you more, and more every single day, and if you’re lucky, every second of every day. This phrase is more to say I love you today more than I loved you yesterday, and my love will only continue to grow.

I love you more… then I hate our arguments, trials, or tribulations. This one pertains more to family, in my opinion, particularly the mothers out there that you will inevitably fight with. Or perhaps you had a bad fight with your significant other; these words could also be used to reassure the other that despite this bump in the road, there are things that make our love worth it.

For those of you in long distance relationship, friendships or at college away from home, you may find yourself saying I love you more…than any distance between us. When a brother or little sister say I love you, and you respond with “I love you more” think of it now as a way to bridge the gap felt between the two of you being thousands of miles away from each other. Distance is hard, but once you can love someone more than you dislike being away from them, you’ve got something good.

You can go back and forth arguing about who loves who more, but at the end of the day, there’s no way to tell who loves the other more, or in what ways, but instead there is a reason to love someone more than you did the day before.