It has only been a day since we have talked, and it feels like a very painful forever. I miss you.

I have a ton of stuff I want to talk about. You've been in my thoughts all day, my love. I hope you've read some of what I posted at some point and it brought a smile to your face. I hope you've had a good weekend with E and things have been smooth with no stress. I also really hope I get to talk to you and see your beautiful smile and eyes and hear that smooth sexy voice tomorrrow.

You may already know what I'm about to explain, but I just learned it today so I'm going to explain it because I want to talk about it with you.

Like many languages, Japanese has different ways of saying "I love you." The two I knew before today are suki and daisuki (ski and dyeski).

Suki is used for like/love someone or something. You could use it to say I like you or I love you.

Daisuki is used for LOVING someone or something. Culturally, it wouldn't be extremely common to hear this as they are stereotypically more conservative than we are, and it is an extreme love. The way my sensei explained it to me is it was pushy, borderline fetish level of love for something. There isn't really an English translation that fits since our language cultures are so very different. Japanese people are masters of things unsaid and picking up contextual clues, leaving a ton of things out, so to say you daisuki love something is borderline offensive.

As a side note, kirei means pretty or beautiful. Adding -sa to the end of it makes the word a noun, I think?

Earlier today watching anime, I heard a new word translated as love so I had to look up what it means. Aishiteru, eye-shtay-ru, or in the -ing form, aishiteimasu, is something I really love (pun intended, of course.) It means you love someone, but it is even more rare than daisuki, and has implied meanings. When you aishiteru someone, it is "a profound, long term love" with "implications of commitment, action, and intensity rather than every day affection." It would be used for weddings, proposals, things of that nature. It is like saying "I love you, I am committing to love you, and I am going to act according to that love."

Aishiteru, kireisa.