What I Love You Really Means

I was on the phone with my mother the other day, and right before we hung up she said, “Love you.” I was taken back for a moment. She doesn’t say that she loves me all that often. But to be fair, I don’t say it to her all that much either. Our relationship got complicated when I was 9 and my father left. It got damaged when I ran away from home at 14. M…