He didn’t answer right away. The silence stretched, heavy but honest. Finally, he said, “I thought making it bigger would make it better. I didn’t realize I was giving you less of what you wanted.”That night, I learned that love isn’t proven by grand gestures or full tables — it’s proven in listening, in showing up the way your partner needs you to.Anniversaries come and go, but the lesson stayed: sometimes, the greatest gift you can give is not what you think they’ll love, but what they’ve quietly asked for all along.