That Sinking Feeling: A Poll for Lovers

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That sweet moment comes when you gaze tenderly at your lover and say, "I love you." Which of these is the most disheartening response you could get? I know there are more than what I have listed here, so feel free to contribute. From the heart.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Just an awkward silence.	6
"OK."	2
"Now, that's what I'm talkin' about." (accompanied by a finger gun)	2
"Yup."	2
"Sure thing."	1
"Without you darling I'd be nothing at all. I'd be like this crumb. Utterly useless. I mean it."	0
"I hear you."	0
"No kidding, sherlock."	0
"Same here."	0
"Gotcha."	0
"Me, too."	0
"Ditto."	0
Other: specify	0

― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:25 (twelve years ago)

Other: laughter

― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:26 (twelve years ago)

"I love you too, but I'm not *in love with you* ..."

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:26 (twelve years ago)

Other: a pen

― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:27 (twelve years ago)

Right back atcha, slick

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:35 (twelve years ago)

The finger gun would be the most dispiriting, because you'd have to realise you were in love with a dickhead.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:52 (twelve years ago)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:28 (twelve years ago)

"Moooooo"

― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:29 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhMJWOYTQ0

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:31 (twelve years ago)

Gently changing the topic, not acknowledging what you have just said

― Treeship, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:32 (twelve years ago)

(reads NV's response, has sudden revelatory thought, blushes)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:39 (twelve years ago)

that sinking feeling when you suddenly realise you are in love with livestock

― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:41 (twelve years ago)

"That sinking feeling" should replace "that awkward moment" as a meme.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:43 (twelve years ago)

Other: the Han Solo gambit

― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:04 (twelve years ago)

Other: the Meat Loaf gambit

― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:38 (twelve years ago)

Thought this thread was a reference to this extremely fine little movie:

http://static2.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/87/10048187-1309426883-114788.jpg

(Whatever happened to Bill Forsyth btw?)

― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:51 (twelve years ago)

iirc, after striking it medium-big with Local Hero Forsyth directed two or three more films that didn't do very well at the box office and slipped slowly beneath the surface never to rise again.

The last film I know he directed was Breaking In starring Burt Reynolds and filmed in my home town, Portland, OR. The script could have supported a decent movie, but Reynolds seemed completely disengaged from his part and mailed in his performance. He sank the film.

― Aimless, Sunday, 16 June 2013 00:41 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

probably a look of bewildered surprise followed by anything else

though tbh it's been so long since i've been in love i srsly can't remember what it feels like anymore....

― Lee626, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:19 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

"I love you too, but I'm not *in love with you* ..."

Having suffered this one for the last six months, ohhhh owch.

― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:49 (twelve years ago)

ilx is really slipping when no one demands an 'i know' option

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:08 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

I was pottering around and found this long forgotten poll thread. I liked it. Maybe you will, too.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:54 (six years ago)

My best friend had been going out with his partner for about two years and he confided to us that every time she said I love you, he would try to say it back, because he did and he wanted to, but the words would get “stuck in his mouth”.

She was getting a bit anxious about it, the way he would just freeze up, but stuck with him.

Anyway we went on a boys weekend to Berlin, got on the Mandy (his first time), and he just had this “oh my god I can’t believe there’s been this issue”, runs out to the chill out area and phones her up (at like 2am) and he’s like saying it down the phone and tearing up, and she’s crying on the other side. V sweet.

His partner is the slightly anti drug type but she expressed ridiculous thanks to us for that weekend.

― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 23:33 (six years ago)

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