How long does it take before you can truly say you love someone?

I dont think love should be tied down to people's stupid rule of time. You love someone when you love them. Everyone is different.

I think you can know some part of a person just seing how he/she moves and her/his facial expretions.

You can start loving someone on the first sight.
I did once. It wasn't something like "I love him", but I became really really curious about him, and latter I started to have more contact with him, and guess? I became to be sure of I was loving him.
And I loved that person for 2 years, then we started to go on other directions (university and stuf).

So, I would say you can love someone on the first sight, but not being sure of it even so.

In my experience it has taken only 3 or 4 months for those first initial, but serious, feelings of love to develop. That also seems to be about how long any non-serious relationships lasted for me.

Love at first sight is a joke. I'm sure the girls who met Ted Bundy thought it was love at first sight....

As I state before, because you can never know what is going on in someones mind, you can never 100% trust them and therefore you can never 100% love them.

"being the one is like being in love. no one tells you you're in love, you just know. balls to bones."

my favorite quote from The Matrix. everyone falls in love at their own pace.

it depends on the chemistry u have.nuff sed

if you love someone right away its probably because YOU want love.

BoredGuy, life isnt that boring and simple. I could have a good friend and make kids with her. Doesn't mean i have to love her. Don't act so official when you post a THEORY. Dumb one too. Its not all mechanism. Think about those many couples who just don't want kids.
Anyways i always think alot before I truely love a girl.

I think this has a lot to do with age. The older you get, the slower you say it.

You can say you love someone when you know you love someone. When you entire body and mind just yell at you: "You love her/him!"

Depends on the person. I think deepthought33 is along the right lines, though.

say it as soon as you know you'll never take it back :)

There is no such thing, just a mechanism human nature devised to bond 2 humans together in order to assure a better survivability of their offsprings.

There is no solid rule as to when you can and can't say you love someone and mean it. Some people are really right for eachother, and fall inlove almost instantly. Others take time for their feelings to grow, and take a long time to say they love someone. I knew my boyfriend for just under a year before we started dating. He was always the easiest person to talk to and be around, and always cheered me up and just improved me mood in general whenever we had a conversation. He is the first and only person I've ever developed real feelings for. On our first date, we spoke about anything and everything and instantly clicked and we knew we were inlove. So I guess, love at first date? If that makes sense. Other people swear they fell inlove with their partner the moment they laid eyes on them and I won't doubt that because it irritates the hell out of me when people assume people can't fall inlove after a first date. What else would you call the will to devote your entire life to somebody? That's love, man. Some people are so bitter and so against love and relationships, probably because they lack that very aspect in their lives, that they belittle and degrade those who fall inlove easily and are vulnerable to love. Don't listen to people who say things like "if you think you love somebody after the first time you saw them, its not love" because that, is bullshit. Nobody in the world can tell you how or when you should fall inlove. It happens in its own time and its different for everyone.

It took me about a year to say it to my boyfriend. It was really awkward because he was my first boyfriend, but I wasn't his first girlfriend, so he was the first one to say it- about 6 months into the relationship. I wasn't ready to say it back yet to I would just respond with "And I'm attracted to you". But we've been together for 3 years now we say it freely all the time to the point where when we substituteit for something else like "thank you", or "please", or even "sorry", all depending on our tone.

Yes, love can happen at almost first sight, met my husband of 30 years now when I was 25 we dated thrice, fell deeply in love and now it has been 30 wonderful years.

well.. i am weird. i thought i fell in love billie joe really fast.. but i still love him and im 16 now, so i guess it's real..
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I believe in "'lust' at first sight", not love.
Lust will draw you to the person which then gives you the chance to get to know them.
After that happens then love might cross your mind.
But I don't believe in love being an instant thing..at least not if it's real.
That's something that needs to develop over time.
Now how much time that takes, I can't say.
It all depends on what the two do within the time period they're given.
I've never told someone that I loved them in the same amount of time; as I had with a past partner.

With the right one, its not hard to say you love them, with the wrong person, no matter how hard you try, its just not work.It should be come out naturally.

You should just know by the time you really get to know them. It's hard to explain.. It just comes to you and feels natural, and it's a comforting feeling. That's when you know you're in love.

NEVER say it. show it.