saying that stuff to you, it's likely she craves hearing it from you and wants to prompt that. Build a vocabulary of phrases that she'll enjoy hearing and it will help you move the ball down field quicker. (10-20-2012 05:46 PM) bacon Wrote: if your in latin america avoid te amo. instead go with te quiero, its more like i want you and more sexual. doesnt carry the emotional weight of a te amo. Te quiero still means I love you, although you're right that it's not quite as heavy as te amo. Depending on the context it might be more like "I like you a lot" but it's still not really a purely sexual thing. "I want you" would be more like "te deseo." As for the question, yeah if I thought that's what I needed to do to get me laid then sure I'd say it. In my experience in South America it's not needed, though. If a girl dropped "I love you" on me, I'd be more inclined to say something like "you're so beautiful" and escalate physically than go all beta and reflexively spit it right back at her. Quote: Suppose you reply with something watered down, and she bitches at you because you didn't say you loved her. Tell her: "My culture is a bit different to yours. People who are saying 'I love you' have usually already had sex together. Because they both wanted to. In my culture the action is more important than