Q: A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend told me for the first time that he loved me—in French. He’s not from France and doesn’t speak the language, but even now when I say it, his response is always “Je t’aime.” He says it like it’s this joke between us, but I still wonder if something is holding him back from saying it in English. Can I really trust that he loves me?
Pourquoi?
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Carrie Brownstein is a musician and a writer/director in film and television. She was the cocreator and costar of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning comedy series Portlandia. Brownstein has directed television shows for HBO, HBO Max, NBC, Comedy Central, and Hulu. She also directed a short film for KENZO starring Mahershala Ali and Natasha Lyonne. Brownstein is a founding member of the seminal punk-rock band Sleater-Kinney and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
