How do you know your mate truly loves you?

Many men don't show love the way we expect them to, and for women it's easy to begin believing her man doesn't love her anymore. I had this problem at one point, I thought my husband no longer loved me because he wasn't doing anything to show it. I told him, and he became upset. He said he thought he was showing it by allowing me to sleep in, taking care of the kids to give me time off, fixing dinner on his days off, cleaning the house on occasion... little things that I took for granted because I thought they were just duties to him. But to him it meant more.

.. well, for me, when you trust the word of your mate that he loves you, then definitely, he does. Why? because it is when we start to doubt our mate that things start to go the wrong way too. I discovered this during the first few months of my relationship. My partner would say he loves me but I demand for proof. I said his words are not enough. Since then, i observe a change in his attitude. He started to lie to me when I tell ask him where did he go or who was his companions. When things started to mess, I talked to him and he said, I never trusted him because I always doubted his words that he loves me so I said i'm sorry. We patched up for those what happened in the past and I came to realize that we can't force somebody who loves us to stay with us for life. What we need to do is to make or do things for him to have reasons to love us more and reasons to spend his life with us through eternity.

I've been married for 13 years and from that day on until today, nothing has changed between the two of us. I could say that the warmth we feel before our marriage is still the same after many years. I hope others wont tell me I'm just exaggerating but I can proudly say its true and its possible.

sometimes you just feel it...or he'll do stuff that only a guy who's in love will you will do... For example, there's this guy i met on myspace, he's from san francisco, california. After seven months of corresponding, he decided to come here in manila to see me, though he never said anything about his feelings...then we continued corresponding and then after two months he came back (here in Manila), he even followed me in australia to watch my (rowing) competition...then again, he never said anything until i began to ask him...obviously he's in love with me that's why he did all that...