Because in your last lifetime together, you loved someone else before Simon.
The clouds are heavy; if the gods love you, before morning there will be snow.
No one ever loved me before - no man, I mean, in that way.
It was clear Green was seeing the game he loved change before his eyes.
"But you loved me before my magic returned," she said.
"We're not going to go through how I don't love you anymore before dinner, are we?"
She loved them to death right before everybody, especially if a trick wasn't going good.
"With the cousin of the woman you loved before me?"
And you probably loved other people before that too, even.
She loved everything about theatre life; even the nerves before the show.