Only about ten thousand times.

When he once in a rare, rare while says something nice, I hug him and tell him how good it makes me feel to encourage him doing that. He'll say that I should just know how he feels. I know that's what a lot of men say to a lot of women. But I think it does show an attitude of taking someone for granted.

Then he'll start saying "Thank you" for every little tiny thing I do, but it sounds robotic. Maybe he doesn't like to think that he owes me a debt of gratitude. Maybe I'm wrong to want him to. It's not even that I want him to feel indebted. I want to hear that he is very glad to have me here. Instead, he is always getting annoyed and snapping at me. That gets so demoralizing.