It wasn’t your fault for not loving me,“ she said. “I say that honestly, without the smallest ounce of self-pity.

“It takes a whole lot for someone to love another person. Sometimes it’s there and sometimes it’s not. I shouldn’t have expected as much as I did. 

She thought for a minute before saying quietly:

“I thought if I gave you everything it would be enough though. I thought, at least, it would be enough for you to love me just a little bit.

When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.