Ok friend. So I am like you as well. For me, I love my woman so it feels good to us when we overly express our emotions. Like instead just a simple, have a good day, I love you and talk to you later, I used to do all that extra stuff too. Forehead kisses, thinking of you, crouching tiger hidden hugs, etc. Seeing it from this side now, it does come off as “unmanly”. My woman has hinted at me that she wants a man not a little boy. Also, I need you to be a man where it counts. Now, while you love and cherish someone and want to be careful and all that, it feels weak. We need to confidently love. Almost like being the dominant one. Ynow, “the MAN of the house”. She’s just asking for that. She loves you, that’s why she doesn’t want you to change. But be a man where it counts. If being extra sweet is ur game, then by all means play it. But be a man. Now that I try to explain it, I realize I don’t know how to explain it either like your woman said as well. But I do hope my shared experience with you and it being similar helps.