Mattress Online surveyed 1,000 British individuals to figure out when people are ready for all sorts of relationship milestones, from the first time they choose Netflix over physical intimacy to the first time they say 'I love you.' But, I do have a small piece of science-backed wisdom to offer you in terms of when to drop the L-bomb. I don't know if your partner loves you, too, and I definitely don't know how it's going to go for the two of you after you say it.
Well, unfortunately, I can't answer a lot of those questions for you. What happens after you say it? What if your partner doesn't say it back? And then, there's the biggest question of them all: how do you even know when to say I love you?! Is there a right time? What makes it so scary, you ask? Well, I'd have to say that the most petrifying part of it all is the unknown factor. Saying 'I love you' for the first time is terrifying.
If I had to choose one word to describe saying 'I love you' to your partner for the first time, I'd have to go with.
