he loves me!

my bf and I have been dating for 3 months. I have known that I love him for a while but I was too scared to tell him. when I told him i liked him, he didn’t say it back right then and it was hard to go through and I didn’t want that to happen again since I care about him so much and it would kill me if he couldn’t say it back. today we were hanging out and he could tell i was off and was thinking hard about something. I was deciding whether or not I should tell him. I had a feeling he knew what I was gonna say just based on what he was saying but I was still really scared. we stopped talking about it and I kinda forgot about it and out of nowhere he tells me that he loves me. I was shocked and it took really long for words to process to say it back. but i’m so happy and i’m in love for the first time!!