"I will never be alone with you." what does that mean?

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What does this sentence mean?

I will never be alone with you.

Does it mean I want to be with you or I don't want to be with you?

apsillers · Accepted Answer

This can mean either:

Because of you, I will never be alone.

This could be better re-written as "With you, I will never be alone."

Whenever I am with you, other people will always be nearby; the two of us will never be alone together.

Note that this does not indicate whether I want this to be the case. Compare two uses:

I want to tell you a secret in private, but your parents are always watching us. I will never be alone with you.
  
  I know that if no one is watching, you will try to rob me. To protect myself, I will never be alone with you.

Mazura · Answer

Without context or knowing which words received emphasis, apsillers' answer covers both A and B. However, rearranging the sentence could mean something else entirely:

With you, I will never be (feel) alone.

"Never do I feel more alone than with other people, but with you it's different because of the connection we share."

Said from one companion to another, 'never feeling alone' is what they meant. Anyone else would be talking about the impossibility or their unwillingness to be alone with someone, literally.

Whichever way it's worded, it's still rather ambiguous. We have a written transcript of what they said. We'd need the context of their relationship to know what they meant.

"I will never be alone with you." what does that mean?

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