Yes, but we are all to some degree influenced by the connotations we have to a term in our own language, when we use the closest equivalent in another language; truly bilingual people may also have see slightly different shades of meanings to words in their respective languages, compared to people who have one main language. Doubtless you are also aware of the fact that "love" is used a little more frequently in the US than in some other English speaking countries.

I do therapy in English with a native English speaker (who has lived in this country for 45 years or so) and I would feel very disconcerted if he were to tell me that he loved me. I would think that very inappropriate indeed. I can tell my closest American friends that I love them, and am not repulsed when they say the same to me. But my British-born T... no, no, no. He says that he likes me, and that's fine.