Does every student hate English?

Here's the set up: my boyfriend and I went and met my parents for dinner in Peru and on the car ride back the BF and I had a little tiff that I feel I need to share. I have no doubt that he loves me dearly, however, he hates English, English teachers (except me of course) , and says that all his friends in HS hated English too. How this started is I was jabbering on (yeah, can you believe that? =) about all my inhibitions, concerns, and excitement about upcoming student teaching. We started discussing the climate which I want to have in my class room, and my concerns about not being the "push-over" teacher and being able to be quick on my feet and to have the classroom that students want to be in. He says to me,

"Well, everyone is going to hate coming to your class no matter what because it is English. You are already down for the count."

Grrr.. I did my best to explain to him that students may hate English when they come into the classroom, but I want them to love it when they are leaving. I was very discouraged after the argument and started pondering my future as a teacher.

How are we as teachers going to overcome this stigma? Internally, what kind of mindset are we going to need to have to not be discouraged by those students (maybe classes of students) who hate English? I foresee a tough obscale with a classroom of students who do not want to be at school let alone my English class. How can a teacher transfer his/her excitment for English without being that overly enthusiastic joke of a teacher? I am not naive enough to think that all my student would love English, but I had hope that there would be some students willing to learn.

Thoughts?