There is a need in every human being to love and to be loved. There is also a need to manifest that love. Unfortunately, each person's concept of proving love is so varied that the recipient often misses the proof. One person's idea of proving love is by doing things buying gifts and being thoughtful. A husband may prove love by being a good provider and a wife by being a good cook.
Children prove love by being obedient and an absence of obedience brings true love into question.
Friends manifest love by companionship and mutual goals. All these manifestations of love entail something nice something pleasant something good. However, the way love is proven to us may not be to our liking and we often refuse to accept the particular way one individual proves his love. We miss important signs of love because we refuse, consciously or unconsciously, to accept the way others prove their love for us. Even gifts are accepted with a visible lack of appreciation because that particular item was not our idea of a gift of a manifestation of love.