When do you love someone?

Well, I was a senior in high school at a little school in the middle of no where.. Everyone in my school knew everyone's business, and it drove me insane... Well, I had been dating a boy for almost a year and we broke up and just had started talking again when I met someone that I automatically was drawn to... as much as I loved Zack, I couldn't stop thinking about Cory...

Zack was the type of boyfriend that would do anything for me.... He treated me as if I was a princess, and he made me feel so beautiful... so wanted... everything a girl could ask for..but I didn't even have to ask..

I was working at a local movie store when one of my friends brought Cory in the store... When he walked in, it was like I couldn't remember Zack's name... that scared me to no end... I was terrified because I knew that the love I had for Zack couldn't had been so strong after all... It wasn't fair of me to keep stringing him along after he loved me so true and so much... right?

Well, Cory and I talked and the more we talked, the more we got to know each other, and the more we liked one another... Before he left the movie store, I gave him my cell phone number... Yes, as much as I knew it was wrong, I did it anyways.... Cory tried numerous times to get a hold of me, and my mom would always say, "she's out with her boyfriend"... that drove Cory farther and farther away...

I did something that I can never forgive myself for... I slept with Cory that night. I got pregnant. I didn't know it at the time though... I was on the shot, and I thought I was protected... I was wrong. I found out when I was three months pregnant.

I went to Cory's apartment the night I found out. That was the first time I had actually seen him since the week we slept together.... needless to say, I had to tell him... The truth had to set me free... I wasn't there to get child support, or anything... I was there because I had to do the right thing... Cory was shocked in a few short words... shocked.

We started to date, and get to know each other, and we eventually moved in with one another. We're now engaged and our little girl is doing terrific... She's a fire ball...I'm submitting this forward not to tell my story, but to share something with the rest of you that read this...

When you say those three little words...I love you...don't say them because you want to make someone feel better, or don't say them because someone said it to you, and you don't want them to feel stupid... for being three small little words...8 little letters, it all means so much...

To have someone love you is something special..but to love someone is something even greater. When you love someone, it doesn't just go away.... You can't love someone and then hate them the next minute... It's impossible to stop loving someone...

I told Zack that I loved him, and I'm not ever going to take that back... because I did love him, very much, but in a different loving way... something we didn't share in the same way.... I'll always love him in a certain way whether it be because friendship or just because I love what we used to have... I'll always love him in some way... It's something to think long and hard about before you actually say those words everyone.... Don't hurt yourself to please others....

So I guess the answer to the question of when do you love someone is this...... always.