I love this! This is the first installment in a new video series from “This American Life” called Videos 4 U. In the series filmmaker Bianca Giaever “finds people who have something they need to say to somebody and she makes a video to help them say it.” In this series premier, a woman struggles with saying “I love you” for the first time to her boyfriend of eight years.
And here’s the couple watching the video together for the first time:
AWWWWWW.
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bittergaymark February 12, 2015, 1:25 pm
See? More of you should just be patient. Really, really patient. Look, only the truly emotionally ever stunted get covered by American Life… Then again, maybe that dreadful, beyond tragic beard simply kept her from saying, “I love you.” Awfully hard to say the three magic words when the only three running through your head are “WTF? Go shave!!”
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Dear Wendy February 12, 2015, 1:31 pm
I do agree with you on the tragic beard, but I thought these two were sorta sweet.
RedroverRedrover February 12, 2015, 1:34 pm
They seem sweet, but how does this even happen!?!?! She said in the video that she was awkward, well they must both be really awkward to be dating each other for 8 years, appear to actually love each other, but never say it! Crazy! Well, I’m happy for them that they finally did.
gigi February 12, 2015, 1:41 pm
Sometimes you don’t need words. You can tell by the actions that you are loved. Then again sometimes you do….. I posted about it 9-10 months ago. About wanting to hear those 3 words. I could tell that he loved me, but I really really wanted to hear it. And I finally did! In November! And it was really hard to say it back, because I had trained myself for so long to not say those words to him. It only took 4 years….Ugh. I also got a marriage proposal! Which I did not accept. Or maybe … postponed is a better word.
bittergaymark February 12, 2015, 1:43 pm
PS — I kept waiting for somebody to call Adnan.
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“Look, I don’t know how it works. You can say I love you or don’t. I don’t know. I don’t know you. You can believe me — or not? Take what I say as true — or not? Do you love him? Spit it out, girl? I mean… WHAT. I. AM. SAYING. IS. LIFE. IS. SHORT. Yeah. Yeah, I understand that. But what are you waiting for? And. What. Does. ANY. Of. This — have to do with my appeal?!”
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Addie Pray February 12, 2015, 3:01 pm
haha, totally
mylaray February 12, 2015, 1:52 pm
This was sweet. My husband and I waited over 2 years to say it, but it was so obvious we loved each other. We’re both just awkward and didn’t really feel a need to say it. But everything changed for the better once we could say I love you.
Addie Pray February 12, 2015, 2:26 pm
Aww, that was so sweet! I’m all teary now.
Lianne February 12, 2015, 5:22 pm
That was super sweet. I had chills when she was saying I love you at the end of the video.
FireStar February 12, 2015, 6:52 pm
But but he still didn’t say it!
RedRoverRedRover February 12, 2015, 7:02 pm
Didn’t he? It sounded to me like he did, right at 6:39. And then she gives him a sweet little look.
Kate February 13, 2015, 8:55 am
He does. But good lord he looked wildly uncomfortable the whole time. He wouldn’t look at her and his right eye got more and more squinty. Something’s off with him, besides just the tragic beard.
Mrs. Marcie February 13, 2015, 10:04 am
Don’t hate me for this, but I too was wondering what was wrong with his face! His squinty eye! What is that all about?
Kate February 13, 2015, 10:14 am
If it’s a facial tic or something I feel bad, but it seemed like discomfort.
Kate February 13, 2015, 8:38 am
Maia has horrific vocal fry. She needs a coach. I was on a call recently with someone from my company who has even worse vocal fry than Maia, a client who has the most insane baby voice, and another colleague who says “you know” 10x per sentence, and I lost my sanity.
Addie Pray February 13, 2015, 10:18 am
What’s vocal fry? Do I have it? I don’t think I have an unusual voice or speak weird. I’m nervous now, though, ha.
Addie Pray February 13, 2015, 10:20 am
Oh, vocal fry. (I Googled it.) I hate that.
Kate February 13, 2015, 10:21 am
I’ve never heard you speak, Addie, but it’s:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/61552/what-vocal-fry
Portia February 13, 2015, 10:47 am
That’s actually a fairly comprehensive article about it.
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I recommend listening to the This American Life episode about it, since they do talk to a well-known sociolinguist who looked a little at how people respond to vocal fry and it’s pretty interesting (she presented on it at a conference I was recently at). And I’m glad Ira, the king of vocal fry, pointed out the absurdity of hating on women almost exclusively for it: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps (Act Two).
Dear Wendy February 13, 2015, 2:36 pm
Never heard of vocal fry; totally fascinated by it now.