How to Say I Love You in Spanish
You can’t go bigger than “te amo.” No one says “te amo mucho,” because love is already very much.
I had a good time.
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Though “I like you” doesn’t sound very passionate in English, it is in Spanish, perhaps because quiero can also mean want.
As the months passed, I became ashamed that we hadn’t crossed this basic relationship threshold. I didn’t understand why what seemed so easy for the rest of the world—telling the person you’re sleeping with how you feel—was so difficult for me.
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“Te amo.” He kissed my nose. “Te amo.” My lips. “Te amo.”
Edgar Gomez (he/she/they) is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. A graduate of University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, he is a recipient of the 2019 Marcia McQuern Award for nonfiction. His words have appeared in Poets & Writers, Narratively, Catapult, Lithub, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Plus Magazine, and elsewhere online and in print. His memoir, High-Risk Homosexual, was named a Best LGBTQ Book by Harper’s Bazaar. He lives in New York and Puerto Rico. Find him on Twitter @OtroEdgarGomez.
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