Words of appreciation and thoughtful gifts. You do not ever need to be physical with him to show you love him. My family isn’t a physical one, we only briefly hug to say goodbye or thank you per example but we show love through words and gifts.
I relate a little bit to your story. Parents divorced when I was 5, my mother met a good man and they were together for like 15 years. I grew up with my dad and my sister grew up living with my mom and the stepfather. She still lives with the stepfather even after my mom and him broke up, he’s still in our lives and has always treated us like we are his daughters. He even helps my sister with her own daughter and is quite literally her number 1 male figure in her life. He’s an amazing man and we are incredibly grateful to have him in our lives. On Christmas in 2020, I gifted him a keychain that read “We may not have your genes but you chose to love us as your own & for that you are forever our hero ♥”. We cried when he read it out and it was a beautiful moment. This year my sister also wrote him a beautiful and emotional card and we cried again lol. These moments we cherish and will remember forever.
Can the same concept not apply? Bacterial load vs viral load? It's an STI that can fly under the radar for a long time, if your partner has no symptoms and doesn't have enough BACTERIA in them to pass it along, wouldn't they just keep it to themselves?
Does she demand he work crazy hours? Is she the one who insisted he be the one who only work? Maybe I missed something?
Words of appreciation and thoughtful gifts. You do not ever need to be physical with him to show you love him. My family isn’t a physical one, we only briefly hug to say goodbye or thank you per example but we show love through words and gifts.
I relate a little bit to your story. Parents divorced when I was 5, my mother met a good man and they were together for like 15 years. I grew up with my dad and my sister grew up living with my mom and the stepfather. She still lives with the stepfather even after my mom and him broke up, he’s still in our lives and has always treated us like we are his daughters. He even helps my sister with her own daughter and is quite literally her number 1 male figure in her life. He’s an amazing man and we are incredibly grateful to have him in our lives. On Christmas in 2020, I gifted him a keychain that read “We may not have your genes but you chose to love us as your own & for that you are forever our hero ♥”. We cried when he read it out and it was a beautiful moment. This year my sister also wrote him a beautiful and emotional card and we cried again lol. These moments we cherish and will remember forever.
Can the same concept not apply? Bacterial load vs viral load? It's an STI that can fly under the radar for a long time, if your partner has no symptoms and doesn't have enough BACTERIA in them to pass it along, wouldn't they just keep it to themselves?