Your latest flame has just uttered the three words designed to turn a fledgling fling into a budding relationship. You like this person, but love? No effing way. thepeeq.com offers up these lines to get out of saying it back.

10. Love? What is love, really, when you think about it?

9. You should save all that emotional junk for when you go visit your mom.

8. Uh-oh! Somebody's been browsing in the Hallmark store again!

7. Too bad! I was going to offer you a threesome but I can't do that with someone who actually loves me.

6. Baby, I told you not to talk during Meerkat Manor!

5. Your feeling proves that, as a result of our physical attraction to each other, our monoamine neurotransmitters are seriously unbalanced.

4. Sure, you say that now, but how will you feel next year when I've gained eighty pounds, developed a raging alcohol problem and lost the will to bathe?

3. Does this mean you're ready for anal?

2. Cool! Now I can finally say it: I have herpes!

1. Aw, that's sweet!