<human>: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 9 months now, and we have never said the L word to each other yet. I have never said it to anyone before, and I have also never dated anyone for this long, so I have always had my walls up, but he is starting to break them down. He has been in several relationships where I think he said it but didn't mean it really, and so is happy with me partly because I am so low pressure on commitment type things.  
So he got tipsy last night and told me how annoyed he was at his friends for giving up their youth and "falling in love" and getting pregnant and all that shit, and I was like, "so you think its weak to fall in love?" And he said yes, it was. This irritated me because up until then I didn't need him to say it to me, but hearing that makes me think he never will. If he doesn't love me by now, will he ever? I feel like I can't love him because I know he could reject it so I've been holding myself back because I'm afraid of his answer, but I don't want a relationship where I have to do that.  
The problem is I desperately don't want this to end. We have never truly fought besides small bickers, he is very chill, we get along amazingly. He calls me his best friend and has even mentioned once the possibility of moving in together way off in the distant future. I know he wants to be with me, and I want to be with him, so should I let this go over that? I'm afraid of bringing this up because he is so stubborn he could just tell me that he isn't in the position to love someone right now, and if he says that I'll break up with him, and I really really don't want to.  
Is it normal to not love someone after this long?

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<bot>: My boyfriend thinks falling in love is weak. We have been dating nine months, is this something I should make a deal over?