Attention is how love looks when it’s actually doing something.

Affection that stays as a feeling is unverifiable. What people actually experience from you is where your eyes go, what you remember, whether you asked about the thing they told you last week. That is the visible form of it, and without it the feeling is indistinguishable from nothing at all, no matter how real it is on the inside.

Pick one person and pay attention on purpose for a week. Remember the detail, ask the follow-up, put the phone away when they start talking. You will not need to say anything about caring, because the evidence will already have arrived by a route that is much harder to doubt.