Are You and the I Love You Return?

i love you is a way to try to avoid the really horrible aspect of love, that is that it overwhelms me. And so i say i love you in an attempt to get you to put that signifier out there, so that all of a sudden it will stabilize my relationship to you. I look at the signs, and i it all seem like signifiers to me. They all seem in doubt, like, ok, yes, i'm this in my heterosexual example. But, oh, she, she smiles when i say this. She laughs at my jokes, and she, whatever. That's what i wonder. Is these really, they're not signs, they're just