It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Feelings rarely have a start line. You look up one day and find something already established, with no single moment you could point to as the beginning. That holds for affection, and for most changes worth noticing, which arrive by accumulation rather than announcement.

Rather than hunting for when it began, check what is already true: who you think about, where attention goes when it is unoccupied, what you rearrange without being asked. If you are waiting to feel certain before saying anything, the certainty may be behind you already. Say the smaller, truer thing now.