Express your Feelings!!!!!

Have u ever had a second thought before u expressed your loveable feelings to someone special. (May it be ur fiance or ur mum.... ! )
In our orthodox indian soceity we have been trained to think twice before expressing our true feelings , and i do agree that we should be careful when we are dealing with strangers or people of the opposite sex with whom we dont intent to develop any special relationship.
But when it's that someone special in ur life, should we actually follow rules and egos before we think of expressing our love for him/her? I never felt that way.... and this blog wouldn't have come into being! But then i had this conversation with one of my friends who completely refused the idea, of cooking for his wife once in a while, as totally absurd! He being a good cook and other facts and figures in place, he couldn't agree with me when i said that it was also a way of showing ur appreciation and love for her.
I don't understand why anyone would wanna restrict the expression of feelings of love to his/her loved ones. I have had people in my life who never got to know how much we loved them, just because we never thought about telling them or expressing it in any simple way like a hug! And it made them pass through this life and out of it.. feeling that they were not wanted and their absence from our lives would never matter much ... when the truth was the opposite! And now i wish that they had a chance to express their feelings, wish i would have expressed my feelings for them!
We always seem to have the excuse that "he/she knows that i love and care for them, then why should i say it?" ... Yes we knew that... but still doesn't it make ur day when someone tells u that he/she loves u ??? .. those 3 words does have some magic!