Dropping Hints
You want someone to do something because they want to, do you drop hints?
Does it make it less special because you had to prod it along? Will it mean as much if you had to apply pressure to make it happen?
Alternatively wouldn’t just sitting and waiting for someone to guess what you want be a bit like playing games?
I have no answers for you except expectations can ruin surprises and timelines for your personal life suck, that’s why I don’t set goals outside of work. Sometimes I think it’s better to be Buddhist about such things.
