(informal) I'm in love with you, I love you

Customary signals made during a conversation to indicate comprehension or attentiveness; backchannelling.

prejudicial treatment, favoritism

to show prejudicial treatment, to display favoritism

defect, problem, discrepancy

defective

degree

affection, friendship, brotherhood, fraternity, friendly love, fraternal love / Greek φιλία (filía) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

one's beloved wife

still, as always, as usual, as ... as ever, same old story