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What does it mean?
Expresses love despite nervousness and shared inexperience in a relationship.
In plain terms
I love you and we are both new at this but I'm sane.
What can you take from it?
Love requires vulnerability even when inexperienced.

Where it applies

  • new relationship
  • dating
  • vulnerability exercise

Putting it to work

  • expressing feelings
  • acknowledging limits
  • connecting

Questions to consider

  • Are you ever ready?
  • How do you show love?

Another view

The declaration of sanity may be defensive.

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