Don’t Tell Me You Love Me

Three alternatives to “those three words.”

Zach J. Payne
4 min readMar 5, 2019

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Why is it that, whenever we think about those three words, the three words in question are always “I love you”?

My biggest problem with that specific phrase is that it breaks one of the cardinal rules of writing. Say it with me, kids:

Show, don’t tell.

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