grammar - Which is the proper response to “I love you”?



When my wife says I love you, my natural response is you too, meaning “[I love] you too.”


I realise that I’m in the minority here. I more frequently hear me too, but I don’t feel comfortable with that response: I can only hear it as “[I love] me too”.


Is there an argument that the grammatical would be I too, as in “I [love you] too”?




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