"I Love You"

It is interesting to watch different couples and how they interact with each other. At dinner the other night while having a joking "fight" about not filling the ice cube tray and leaving the toilet seat up, there was an older couple watching us, laughing and smiling as if we were so cute and in love and they were watching one of these adorable relationship building moments but...it wasn't. It made me think about how we show our affection, i know girls who call their bests friends "bitches" and middle schoolers who ignore the kid they "like like." When do we grow out of this? When do we need to stop trying to translate "i have grown accustomed to your face" and "as you wish" into "I Love You"s. 

Now that I am walking into this world of dates, bars, and flirting, how am I going to know how to interpret advances? How and I going to be able to know when a guy likes me and when I am being  nominated prom queen as a joke?