Spanish ‘love lite’ leaves room for full course later

“Te quiero mucho.” For a few weeks now, I’ve been saying these three little Spanish words to a certain significant other. We’re both Hispanic, so we weave in and out of English and Spanish in our conversations (definitely not “Spanglish,” though). We use whichever one we’re feeling at the moment or whichever feels most appropriate for whatever we want to say.

We always say “te quiero mucho” in Spanish. Its direct translation is “I want you,” but its meaning is far from that - it has no real equivalent in English. Essentially, it means the same as “I love you,” or “I love you very much,” but it doesn’t carry what some would consider the intense meaning or passionate weight of the English “I LOVE you.” “*

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