I love u but or but I love you?

There are a lot of instances wherein we know that the person behind the memories means a lot to us especially if the person concerned is part of the past.

While it is easy to say 'I love you', the sentence has an altogether different effect if it is prefixed or suffixed with a three-lettered word 'but'.

It brings immense joy if a person says '....But I love you..'

While the sentence 'I love you but,...’ has its opposite effect. Yet today I feel like telling some person the second sentence for I know that in spite of giving a lot of chances, the person has failed to make use of it. I know for a fact that though I say 'I love you' it doesn't have any implications on the person while it still hurts me when I look back and realize that I had liked him when I was nothing but a cat's-paw to him- a stopover in his journey of life. All that mattered to him was him- a narcissist with no feelings for others. Today am happy that it didn't work out for what I am is and what I expect is much different from his way of leading life- seclusion. 

Hopefully I get to say the second sentence to that someone who enters my life and stays put without having to leave me, the one who loves me despite all my insecurities and glues the million shattered pieces of my heart, the one who holds my hand and makes me realize why I have failed previously..