Learn English – How to say if someone loved you but you didn’t know that in the past

syntactic-analysis

Consider you graduated from college many years ago and you run into a friend from college and she says that Alice loved you when we were students at college. Alice was your classmate, and we can also assume she is not interested in you anymore.

So how do you describe that you did not realize/did not know, up until now, somebody liked you in the past when your talking about it with another friend.

My guess:

When we were classmates, Alice would have to have loved me.

But I am not sure.

Second scenario could be:

Your mom says when you were an infant you always wanted to play with the cat at home. Of course you don't remember this.

How do you describe this situation to somebody else.

Could it be

When I was an infant, I would have love to have played with the cat.

Best Answer

For your first sentence, the usage of have to have seems incorrect. A correct alternative includes (but is not limited to) the following:

When we were classmates, Alice had feelings for me.

When we were classmates, Alice had a crush on me.

Alice used to love me, back when we were classmates.

For your second case, again, the use of have loved to have seems incorrect. The correct alternatives includes (but is not limited to) the following:

When I was a child, I used to love playing with the cat.

As an infant, I used to love playing with the cat.

My mom tells me that when I was little, I used to love playing with the cat.

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