I don’t think we don’t love each other.

The line hinges on a double negative that refuses to settle into a clear declaration. Rather than saying simply “we love each other,” the speaker circles the claim through hesitation and denial, suggesting emotional uncertainty, self-protection, or an inability to speak plainly about intimacy. In Pinter’s dramatic idiom, such phrasing can function as a defensive maneuver: the speaker tests a feeling while keeping distance from it, leaving room to retreat if challenged. The sentence also dramatizes how language can obscure as much as it reveals—love is approached indirectly, filtered through doubt and the fear of being wrong, which makes the relationship feel precarious even in the act of affirming it.