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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Nanao falls in LoveAtFirstPunch with Oliver, and in volume 4 she's asked about it by her roommate Katie ([[LoveTriangle who also has an unrequited crush on Oliver]]). Nanao admits she strongly desires to stay near him, but also says her desire for a DuelToTheDeath with him (a product of her {{samurai}} upbringing previously addressed in volume 1) hasn't gone away as everyone hoped.
-->"I feel an urge to hear his voice. To be by his side. To touch and hold him. I have no doubts about any of that. Which is why I've stuck to him like a burr since we met." ({{beat}}) "At the same time, I have a doubt--and a fundamental one. If you truly love someone, can that emotion coexist with an urge to see them dead?"
* Catherine Earnshaw gets one of the best examples of AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in literature in ''Literature/WutheringHeights.'' Unfortunately, she doesn't make it ''to'' Heathcliff. And even more unfortunately, an eavesdropping Heathcliff [[OutOfContextEavesdropping overhears only the part]] where it would degrade her to marry him and not the part about her passionate love for him; cue a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and decades of misery for everyone in the book.
-->'''Catherine''': It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

* On ''Series/DoctorWho'', Martha Jones confesses her love for the Doctor twice. The first time is in "The Family of Blood" to an amnesiac version of himself:
-->'''Martha:''' He is just everything to me and he doesn't even look at me, but I don't care. 'Cause I love him to bits. And I hope to God he won't remember me saying this.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': During Alphys's "date" with you-the-Player (which only happens in the first place because she mistakes a love letter that you deliver to her from Undyne as being written by you), she tries to give you gifts that are very obviously far better suited for Undyne, and realizing how obvious her crush is, admits it to you. You then help her build up her confidence to [[LoveConfession confess to Undyne]] by role-playing with her.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Hawkins Fuller doesn't say "I love you" to his lover Tim Laughlin, but he admits to his friend Marcus in episode 4 that when the interrogator asked him if he has ever loved a man, he pictured Tim.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Hawkins Fuller doesn't say "I love you" to his lover Tim Laughlin, but he admits to his friend Marcus in episode 4 that when the interrogator asked him if he has ever loved a man, he pictured Tim.

* In ''Literature/DevilVenerableWantsToKnow'', Wenren E confesses his love for Yin Hanjiang to Baili Qingmiao. He does this because 1) Yin Hanjiang still believes he's dead and thought his earlier attempt to confess his love to him was just a hallucination and 2) he knows that Yin Hanjiang will be reading the book that tells ongoing events from Baili Qingmiao's perspective ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story there]]) and hence will be able to read his confession in text for himself.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', upon realizing she's in love with Sousuke, Tessa opts to tell Kaname rather than Sousuke himself, both as a show of fairness to her romantic rival and because [[InappropriatelyCloseComrades her position as Sousuke's CO]] (as well as his [[ObliviousToLove own emotional density]]) makes actually confessing to him infeasible. [[spoiler:Tessa herself on the receiving end by none other than Sousuke himself after she reluctantly asks him in Dancing Very Merry Christmas to confirm once and for all that she's the RomanticRunnerUp to Kaname and gets the ArmorPiercingAnswer she was afraid to hear]].

* The frequency of this type of confession becomes a running joke in ''{{LightNovel/Oresuki}}''. It’s so frequent that when this doesn't happen during a character’s confession to Joro, it is seen as an aversion of this trope.

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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In season 4, Barney tells Lily that he's in love with Robin, something he realized at the end of season 3. He doesn't want Robin to know, as he's coming to [[TeamMom Lily]] for advice on how to put an end to it since [[LadykillerInLove he isn't interested in a relationship]] and [[BreakTheCutie hasn't been for years]].

* On ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Tom falls in love with Kes, who's already in a relationship with Neelix. Rather than tell either of them (which could lead to problems), he confides in his best buddy Harry while seeking advice on how to not make things worse.

'''Stede.''' Ed. His name is Ed.\\

* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': On Day 10, Amelia calls Yuka over to admit to her that her old feelings for Joe resurfaced. Yuka tells her that it's okay since [[EveryoneCanSeeIt she was bad at hiding it, anyway]], and likewise reveals that [[spoiler:she herself can't hide her feelings for Eve either]]. Yuka then advises Amelia against having a WorkplaceRomance with Joe since "it'll end in doom and gloom."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': "DADDY, I LOVE HIM!"