| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 8:07:53 PM | | Is there a difference between saying "I care for you" and "I care about you"? One of my closest male friends always tells me that he cares about me and I always response the same. One day I decided to say "I care for you", assuming that it means the same. Some how he translated "I care for you" to practically the equivalent of "I love you". Honestly, I do love him "as a friend" I just have never said it out loud. Things are ironed out now but it did make our friendship a little awkward for a couple of weeks. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 8:14:19 PM | | The words "I care for you" had a more deeper meaning than "I care about you". It implies that the person is caring for someone really close to them. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 8:24:01 PM | | I think there can be a subtle difference, depending on context and inflection. Caring about expresses concern for the well-being of another. To care for shows a more active interest, maybe a personal longing or desire? | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 8:27:28 PM |
Things are ironed out now but it did make our friendship a little awkward for a couple of weeks.
You can probably expect anyone close to you to listen to what you say, mixed in with a little internal interpretation of his/their own desires. It seems common for lotsa folks to use euphemisms, vague terms, when they are unsure of the response- huge mistake! Clarity is a blessing, and a mainstay of any enduring relationship. If you were unsure of what he meant by "care for", you should not have used it on him. Ambiguity is every demon's playground, Lol, and almost any relationship can spin out of control when one feels his/her passions, or devotion, are unrequited. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 8:33:25 PM | | I don't really see the difference between the two - they mean the same thing. If the person saying it is trying to point out a subtle difference I'd be asking for clarification because it isn't clear with those two sentences. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 8:34:26 PM | Here's the rule: If you'd say it/do it to a girlfriend it's not weird. If you wouldn't, you crossed a line.
For the record, I'd totally tell a girlfriend that I 'cared for' her.
That's my take on it... | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:07:08 PM | They mean exactly the same thing to me most of the time. The slight differences:
I care for you, since you're never around to do it yourself.
I care for you, meaning I like you.
I care about you, meaning I care for your well being, even though I don't much care for you, as in not liking you.
I care about (what happens to) you.
I couldn't care less about the difference but I care for you and about your thread so I answered anyway. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:16:31 PM |
I think there can be a subtle difference, depending on context and inflection. Caring about expresses concern for the well-being of another. To care for shows a more active interest, maybe a personal longing or desire? That's my take on this, also. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:22:29 PM | A friend cares about you, your parents care about you, your brother and sister care about you.
Your boyfriend/lover cares for you. and also cares about you. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:40:27 PM | | Wow, and things were awkward? He should be happy someone so sexy cares for him and not just about him! :) | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:47:22 PM | | Thank you so much! And I agree, he should be happy that I care for him! We are still BEST friends, as he calls us, so all is well. I think secretly, I really did mean to make a distinction but was afraid of losing a friend. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 10:20:29 PM | ^^^^^ Awww... but, who knows? Could be that the little 'slip' of a seed will take hold some day, and sprout!  I mean, stranger things have happened, right?
Good luck...  | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/3/2009 10:44:12 PM | I'm a college graduate and I don't "see" the difference.
Actions speak louder than words anyway.
If I say what I mean and mean what I say,
I would say I love you when I meant it and nothing else.
Wouldn't you? I think care is in the grey area on the way to
love no matter how you phrase it. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/4/2009 12:08:52 AM | | wow really? There's a difference? I always say "I really care about you" to a lover who I really care about. Who would of thought it has less meaning than "I care for you." rofl Now I know. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/10/2009 5:50:12 PM | | There is a fine line... when you tell someone "I care for you"... it is more personal and intimate... telling me that your feelings are deeper than just friends. Telling someone "I care about you" is a general statement that you could tell anyone, male or female, friend, collegue, etc. It means you care about their "welfare". You care what happnes to them. But to care "for them" is a deeper meaning, implying that you have sort of gone to the next level. | |
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| Care for you vs Care about you
Posted: 11/10/2009 6:03:15 PM | | there may be a very subtle difference but not enough, in my opinion, to be concerned about | |
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