How do you handle it when your boy/girlfriend tells you they love you but you're not ready to say it back?
Specifics: were cis/het folks in our 30s-40s so this is not the first rodeo for either of us. I want to be kind but truthful to my partner ...but so far have kind of avoided saying anything at all when they say it to me. Do I have to explain that I'm not ready to say it yet? How?