Before you can expect your partner to love you how you want to be loved, you have to first find out yourself. Once you know how you want to be loved, the next step is to tell your partner. The key is communication. Unless you tell your partner how you want to be loved there is no way you can expect them to love you in this manner. After all, most of us are not mind readers.
Relationships are a two way street.
Both you and your partner have to love each other the way you want to be loved. When one person's needs are met and not the other's resentments are created. We found that talking openly and honestly about our needs is vital to the relationship. Sometimes you simply cannot give what your partner needs. In Susie's previous relationship sailing was the most important thing to her partner but not to her.