He loves a lot of difficult people who have a hard time showing love and so he's learned to really recognize what little you give him in any of these four languages.
LOL. Understatement of the year.
This just makes Elise feel so bad for him. But I'm also cracking up because I just keep reading, "Jesse recognizes the love in..." and thinking...EXCEPT WHEN IT'S ELISE. Then, it's just because she's a nice person. Not because she loooooves him.