You can’t speed someone up into feeling something. You can only show up as yourself and let them decide.

Feelings in other people are not available to your effort. You can be kind, present and honest about what you want, and none of that produces an emotion on a schedule, because they are doing their own slow arithmetic. Pushing turns a question about them into pressure from you.

Say clearly what you want once, and then go back to living your life where they can see it. No campaign, no hints, no strategy of absence. Put the attention into your own things instead, which is better for you anyway. If the answer turns out to be no, you will have lost a few weeks rather than a year.