Yoo Jae-ha decided to pursue a solo career in the winter of 1986, at the age of 24, and turned to Kim Hyun-sik's bassist Jo Won-ik for help, presenting him a detailed project of the entire album, with the lyrics, composition and instrumentation of each track already complete.

[1][2][3][4] In composing the songs, Yoo resorted to modulation, a technique hardly used at the time, and tried to mix a variety of musical instruments such as flute, violin, oboe and cello, not just drums, guitar, bass and keyboard.

[14] The syncopation at the beginning of the songs caused the television producers to deem Yoo unable to follow the beat, and as a result his only small screen appearance was on KBS variety show Youth March with a performance of "My Image Reflected in My Heart".

[1] First album to assimilate varied and difficult harmonies into pop ballads,[2] the genre's evolution is believed to have started with Because I Love You, and critic Choi Ji-ho thus called it "a noble finished product in itself", not only "beautiful", but "extraordinary".

[19] Music critic Shim Eui-pyeong noted that the reason Yoo's songs were still able to touch many people's sensibilities and inspire them was the innocence and purity they contained, contrasting with modern times, and that though his voice wasn't particularly strong or beautiful, its simplicity and lack of frills managed to leave a bigger impression and bring comfort.

[21] Critic Park Eun-seok's comment to the latter positioning called it "a new model for writing pop music", identifying in Yoo's skill as an arranger, "an invisible hand that made Because I Love You sound fresh even to today's youth", the most powerful factor for the album's elevation to a "masterpiece of our time".

[11][24] In February 2014, the album was re-released in a thousand-copy remastered limited edition, LP format, containing the nine original songs, plus a cover of "Vincent" by Don McLean revealed for the first time by the family.