I' ve always had strong opinions of how love should be expressed, but others had their own ways of showing care.
What I 1 most about visiting my boyfriend' s parents is the loud tick of the clock in the dining room as we 2 ate our meal. With so little conversation I was quick to 3 his family as cold. When we got into the 4 to go home, his father suddenly appeared. 5 , he began to wash his son' s windscreen(挡风玻璃). I could feel he is a caring man through the glass.
I learned another lesson about love a few years later. My father often 6 me early in the morning. " Buy Xerox. It' s a good sharp price," he might say when I answered the phone. No pleasant 7 or enquiry about my life, just financial instructions. This manner of his 8 me and we often quarreled. But one day, I thought about my father' s success in business and realized that his concern for my financial security lay behind his 9 morning calls. The next time he called and told me to buy a stock(股票), I 10 him.
When my social style has conflicted with that of my friends, I' ve often felt 11 For example, I always return phone calls 12 and regularly contact my friends. I expect the same from them. I had one friend who rarely called, answering my messages with short e-mails. I rushed to the 13 : She wasn' t a good friend! My anger 14 as the holidays approached. But then she came to the gathering I 15 and handed me a beautiful dress I had fallen in love with when we did some window-shopping the previous month. I was 16 at her thoughtfulness, and regretful for how I' d considered her to be 17 Clearly I needed to change my expectations of friends.
Far too often, I ignored their 18 expressions, eagerly expecting them to do thing in my 19 Over the years, however, I' ve learned to 20 other persons' love signs.
