I have only said those three words to one individual outside of my family. There was not a grain of romantic feeling behind those words. You genuinely changed my life for the better. Now I am trying to change my own life for the better. I live mostly day to day, but that is alright with me. I want to say those words to someone else, but a few small things hold me back. Firstly if I don't feel it romantically I feel I would be doing an injustice as you set the bar so high already. Secondly, I'm not sure I could ever say it romantically. I used to believe in true love, in romantic love. Nowadays I feel like a realist. Nothing lasts forever... and romance belongs in storybooks. I can not see how pledging yourself to someone else forever was ever a good idea in the first place. We evolve and adapt daily as a person and a species. How can two people be compatible until death without giving up some of oneself in the process? I loved you and you set the bar high. But you no longer hold the bar for me anymore.