When I tell him that I love him, I don’t expect him to tell me he loves me back. Because I know it’s going to be hard for him to admit it considering our… “situation”.
There are times he tells me that he loves me. When he’s intoxicated and he wins a game of billiards, when he just wants to see me smile, before he gives me a kiss (but not all the time). And when he does, I tell him, “I know.”