Saying "I like you": 好きって言われたい vs. 好きって言いたい


I encountered this usage while watching a
[video](https://youtu.be/Vx_dCXVv324?t=1m37s "Japanese lessons JLPT N3 Grammar
#7") on grammar on 日本語の森:

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    好きって言われたい
    
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Now, judging by the context, it apparently means that the speaker **"wants to
say 'I like her**. **'"** However, if I were to read the sentence without any
context, I would probably understand it as someone **"wants to be said 'I like
you** , **'"** which would seem awkward to me at best.

A specified search on Google turned up 138,000 and 392,000 for 好きって言われたい and
好きって言いたい respectively, meaning that while the former is relatively used less,
it isn't rare at all.

**Question:**

Am I wrong to say that by 好きって言われたい, the speaker means to express the same
thing as 好きって言いたい, or are the two actually entirely different as one would
normally expect?




I'll be honest; This question worries me a lot about your Japanese studies.

The two sentences mean **_very_** different and almost opposite things from
each other.

> 「好{す}きって言{い}いたい。」 means "I want to tell someone that I like him/her."

The speaker is the type to prefer confessing.

> 「好きって言われたい。」 means "I want to be told that s/he likes me by her/him."

The speaker is the type to prefer being confessed to.

「言われる」 is in the passive voice form -- "to be told".

「言われたい」 means "to want to be told".




I'll be honest; This question worries me a lot about your Japanese studies.

The two sentences mean **_very_** different and almost opposite things from
each other.

> 「好{す}きって言{い}いたい。」 means "I want to tell someone that I like him/her."

The speaker is the type to prefer confessing.

> 「好きって言われたい。」 means "I want to be told that s/he likes me by her/him."

The speaker is the type to prefer being confessed to.

「言われる」 is in the passive voice form -- "to be told".

「言われたい」 means "to want to be told".

