>>614
Well, it's the implications behind it that are kind of misleading.
好き(suki) - like, love
In anime and manga, you hardly ever see a confession go successfully if you don't have a good relationship to a person anyways, like how Haruka turned down all the guys since she doesn't have any male friends until Junichi comes along and plays along with her.
Real life it's kind of the same thing, and even then, confession( or flat out saying I love you) would be much further down the line and can't be accomplished within a month or two like Junichi made it out to be.
You need to first get the girl interested in you, so you can starting "going out" just because the two of you "like" each other. The longer you're in a relationship with someone, the longer you come to understand them and learn more about them. If you've come to understand your partner well enough and you feel that they do as well, then you can pull out the "I love you" card. Doing it too soon will most likely end up as a misfire because you're still a stranger to the person in question. Reality sucks, but this is what we've got to do to deal with it.