Totally agree with Karen. A lot of trouble with dog behaviour comes from people misinterpreting their pets actions - they try to see it in human terms. Your dog is not doing what he does as a sign of love and it needs to be corrected.

(Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to, or, some would argue[1][2], recognition of human characteristics in, non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Examples include animals and plants and forces of nature such as winds, rain or the sun depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse)