Do you love me?

There is something I never paid close attention to. It's only lately that I've thought about it. Here it goes. Men will almost never initiate uttering the words: I love you. For some odd, biological, cultural, personal reason, they do not say it even if they felt it. This does not include the whole male species of course, for there are those emotional species who are in touch with their inner feelings and utter it a lot. This we've known for centuries.

But what all those poets, artists, psychologists, and self-help books did not explain well is what to make of a man who repeatedly asks his woman: Do you love me?

I googled it, but so far my searches have been futile. The only explanation I have would be if I put myself in that situation. The main reason I straightforwardly ask a man if he loves me: is when I am feeling intense emotions. loving him too much and fearing that he doesn't love me as much or as intensely, I openly ask him. Looking at what I've written, I'm not sure it makes sense. Or does it?

So should I interpret all those: Do you love me? questions as indirect declarations of love?

Till we meet again,
Sedeso