Your question is extremely subjective so I must say that I’m extremely hesitant to hazard an answer. This is because it’s all too easy to conflate or confuse loving with liking depending on the atmospherics and the intensity of the declaration. Simply from a language standpoint, though, “I love you” doesn’t mean the same thing as “I like you.” To love someone is to greatly cherish or to feel strong affection or desire for that person, while to like someone is to find that person agreeable, suitable, or sufficiently attractive. There’s a much stronger emotional commitment or involvement in loving someone than in just liking him or her, but then again, there’s the all-too-human tendency to profess to love somebody that in reality one only likes, or vice versa. The distinction between loving and liking obviously could no longer be clearly discerned in such situations and, as that old song goes, this is where the whole rigmarole begins.
