Those Three Words.!

I love you.
Three words that are uttered by a mother to her newborn child in her arms. Three words that are shared between two girls who have grown up together since first grade. Three words that are whispered between two teenagers who sit on the bleachers as they reminisce on how they met in the hall. Three words that are told to a wife on her 50th anniversary with her husband.
The phrase transcends any particular type of relationship, age group, or gender.  

We all know what the words are intended to express, a deep emotional connection with an individual. But what about the secondary meanings of “I love you?”
I am not sure about you, but I find that “I love you” functions rhetorically as a way to say I will do anything for you (in most cases at least).

For example:
How many times have you heard someone say, “he/she must really love her” following a description of a near outrageous act that an individual did for their loved one? As if to mean the crazier and difficult an action is the more it illustrates ones devotion and love.
I think its funny how I have come to associate ones willingness to do anything for another as a part of love. Especially when in essence that is not what love is.
I guess it plays along with the all too cliche phrase, “love will make you do crazy things.”