Is it normal to be scared of saying "i love you?"

I think its pretty normal but for my reasons? Not sure. I honestly can't help myself and acknowledge that I love this man. No he's not officially mine because were just dating for now but you can love someone uve been w for a short time than someone uve been w longer. I've been with him for more than a year but you kno the very beginning i swear I saw the guy I drew in my head that I've always wanted. As we kept talking, everything he would say or do felt comfortable like I knew him before because these were the qualities even the smallest things that I imagined my ideal guy would have. He has said the same thing too bout feeling like he knew me already. So from the moment I saw him to now, it went from infatuation to being in love w him. My mom even thinks I love him and as a mom she wouldn't just think that of anyone involved w me. She can see it in me when I talk about him from the ups and downs I go through w him. Friends can't believe how soft I have become since being w him because for the first time, I just genuinely care about someone as a stranger.

But at the end of the day, were not serious, we haven't done too many serious things, we just like being together and that's it. I want to tell him finally that I love him...but I feel or fear that he's gonna look at it like I THINK I'm in love but I'm not and I'm just being those silly pple who will consider anything as "love." Nooo I want him to kno I don't just love anyone not even my last bf who truly loves me. I want him to know how special he is to me that IDC if he tears me apart like the coldplay song "sky full of stars." I cry every time I hear that song because its exactly how I feel about him. He's worth the pain I've had from him. "Really like you" is just not enough for me, I feel like there's more in me I have to let out. I don't necessarily fear him not saying it back because well I don't expect him to actually and its fine. I just fear him not taking it seriously.