There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Feeling leaks. Across weeks and months, attention, timing and small choices give away what somebody actually feels regardless of what they say, and a performance in the other direction wears thin just as reliably. Brief encounters can be managed; duration cannot be faked.

So read a season of behaviour rather than a sentence of declaration, including your own. If you are wondering where you stand with someone, look at the pattern instead of asking for reassurance again. And if you have been performing a warmth you do not feel, assume it is already visible and decide what would be kinder than continuing.