Love without respect eventually teaches both people the wrong definition of love.

Affection without respect turns into something that looks like love and functions like something else. Over time both people learn that this is what love involves: the dismissal, the small contempt, the assumption that caring excuses treatment. That lesson then travels into other relationships and into what each person will accept next. It is one of the more quietly damaging patterns.

Check whether you are treated as someone whose judgement, time, and preferences count. Warmth is not a substitute for that. Where respect is missing, it is worth naming directly rather than trying to compensate with more affection.