YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU

"And if you now, that he/she knows that you love them, why do you say it?", was the response to the need to share a belief and, at times, a sincere sensation, at an unrequested moment, given without any trace of the bewilderment felt internally, by a mature, well educated man, including thirty years of different and contextualized therapies, able to show his vulnerabilities and never ashamed to do so, unless people use them to let out -unintentionally, one hopes- their paternalism or maternalism or maintain a sense of distanced self or simply are not that sure they love without conditions and have to say it aloud, used the other as a target to channel their own fear that they truly only love at times and often contaminated by/with history.