If that is what you you said, or expecting to listen from some one, don’t believe it.
If you are expecting some one to say it to you, you love supposedly, I said supposedly on purpose and you know it too that you do not love that person, because love does not expect anything in return, not even to be loved.
Love is unidirectional essentially. Love can not be conditional and is without expectations.
Love is the most misunderstood word and concept.
We often hear people saying, I love this food, I love this item, I love this car, I love that place and the list goes on.
Love is however a human emotion reserved for human, you can not love inanimate stuff, animals or plants.
You love somebody and that person may love somebody else and so on. Somebody else may be loving you, to whom you don’t love. This is how it works. Love is not reciprocal, and can not be reciprocal. That is why relationships have turned into partnerships.
Don’t get confused love with sex by the way. Sex is a physiological requirement and necessary in marriage. Sex and marriage are altogether different issues.