A very nice piece @humanearl.
Firstly, if I ever get to say ‘I love you’ to anyone I am simply saying to the person that am in love with you and all your luggages. Here the luggages include your imperfections, mistakes, awesomeness, structure and behaviors. It is saying I love you because you are my total package and i don't see what others or even you could call imperfection or abnormalities rather I see them as what makes you unique. I see them as part of who you are. Even if we have to change some of those things it should be mutual, you will have to like them if not it is not A PROBLEM AT All.
This does not only spy to the love between a man and a woman, but also between people who have a platonic relationship.
Remember the saying, God is love? Yes I am a believer in it and believe that when I love it should be unconditionally
That's where is gets really tough for us. To love someone with all their baggage and imperfections. tha's why it is hard to love like God because his love is unconditional which is a much higher form of love.