Telling someone you love them can be the most special and scariest time of your life.  But you can ease into it naturally if you know how to do it. 

Love is an Emotion and a Verb.

To love someone in emotion is a feeling you have all for yourself, unless you share that emotion with the object of your love in some fashion.  At that point, all hope lays on the feelings of love being reciprocated back to you. 

But in order to share the love you are feeling with another person, you have to act on it, which makes love a verb.  Typically, the first step in letting someone you know that you love them is to show them that love.  That is almost always what you do before you officially declare that love so that the person may actually believe it and feel the same way about you when you do declare it. 

So the question, how to tell someone "I Love You", should be followed by the actions of loving that person.  How to do that is a most excellent question.

Many of us have ideas of what would work for us to feel loved. For some of us, it's to get a gift or to have some grand gesture made.  For others, it's a simple as a look or a soft touch.  The trick to saying "I Love You" to someone else is to pay very close attention to how they show love.  Are they affectionate?  Then show them affection.  Do they share their time unselfishly?  Spend extra time with them can keep in contact with them with phone calls and texts when you are away from each oterh.  Do they do a lot for others?  Do things for them.  Do they ask a lot of questions?  Then they need to hear endearing words, talk to them.  Or, simply ask them how they experience love, take notes, and then do what they said.

Being able to learn how a person experiences love and sharing that with them is a beautiful thing.  When you give someone that gift and they are giving it back in the way that you experience love makes the scariness of saying the actual words "I Love You" go away.  Because for all intensive purposes, you've all ready said it.