Signing emails to friends "Love"?

College Life
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<p>Hey,
I’m a straight female college student, and a lot of my (straight) female friends sign their facebook posts/emails to each other “Love, [name]”. I always reserved this for family members but have recently picked up the habit of using it when writing some of my very good (female, platonic) friends, in one case signing an email “Love (of the non-romantic sort, of course!)”.</p>

<p>Is this standard among straight females, or is it just my school (or just a Greek life thing)? I’d hate to be misinterpreted…</p>

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<p>I probably tell my friends I love them more than I tell my family. Actually, I know I do. I don’t think thats strange or anything at all. I don’t really sign my facebook posts or anything so I don’t sign like that but I definitely tell my friends I love them all the time so I guess that’s kind of the same?</p>

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<p>I am also a straight female college student (non Greek) and I have seen this a lot as well. Some people overdo it, but I personally sign “love” when writing to my best (female) friends. It doesn’t really have lesbian implications; it’s just a way of reminding them you care.</p>

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<p>if you’re not comfortable with it, put XOXO or something instead. i write love to friends.</p>

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<p>I tell my friends “love” all the time…whenever we’re getting ready to hang up the phone we always say “Love you”. This is, of course, reserved for my very closest friends, whether they’re male or female. But then, we’ve been through a lot together.</p>

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<p>I say ‘I love you’ or ‘love you’ to my close friends allll the time. Usually I sign stuff with a heart and not the actually word, though.</p>

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<p>If you want to convey, formality, intimacy, chumminess and pretentiousness all the time, sign off in a foreign language.</p>

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<p>It’s totally lesbian. How dare you!</p>

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<p>hahahahahah. hahaha.</p>

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<p>I think it’s normal, but I’m careful who I say it to only because I’m bisexual so my friends whom I DO NOT have feelings for but love platonically may misinterpret it. Be glad you’re straight. So I only say it to my very close friends who understand. But now that I think about it, those are the only friends I really love. I guess I’m picky about the word.</p>

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<p>that’s very normal… aren’t your greek “sisters” your “family” though? it’s a paradox…</p>

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<p>not weird at all…i know lots of people who tell those who are not family that they care about them that they love them. normal go with it.</p>

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<p>I reply with love. I do love them but it’s a different kind of love. Nothing remotely sexual about it.</p>

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<p>It’s very common. Girls are more affectionate and like to show their feelings, so many of them hug and even kiss often.</p>

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<p>I do it sometimes…idk, it makes me kind of uncomfortable when people do it a lot…I don’t want to her my girlfriends saying they love me.</p>

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<p>In agape love,</p>

<p>galoisien</p>

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<p>nothing wrong with it!</p>

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<p>You can always just do a <3 before or after your name. I’d feel strange typing love to anybody except my family (not that I have anything against people doing it–it’s just a question of closeness), but I might do a heart like that for friends. It conveys the same idea as typing love, but in a bit more casual/less intense of a way.</p>

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<p>I don’t feel like signing off with “love” is weird at all. I use it all the time.</p>

<p>One love.</p>