A person can feel loved and still need a practical problem at home to change.

Affection and arrangements are different departments. Someone can feel thoroughly loved and still be worn down by the broken thing nobody fixes, the chore that always returns to them, the room that does not work. Raising it is not a complaint about the relationship. Treating it as one turns a solvable domestic problem into a conversation about feelings, and nothing gets fixed.

Raise the practical thing as a practical thing, with a possible fix attached. If you are the one hearing it, resist reaching for reassurance and reach for the calendar instead. Fix the arrangement, and let the affection be assumed rather than tested.