I can't help feeling sad when I hear affection showered on someone and they don't realize what it means.
I was talking to someone and they were telling me about how another esteems them and this person does esteem the other as well...except not to the same extent. With this person it is so mellow...or maybe I don't see enough. I am just not sure. Maybe they do feel more than what is visible to me. But on the other hand, this might not be the case. Perhaps they are shallow in their affections.

How will they love? What will it mean to them? How does their SO feel about this? If I was in the SO's place, I'd be so hurt. I could not endure mellow affections. Its better to have none than something so shallow.