Affirmations are not just the words or thoughts you think over and over.. it's the pictures in your mind, it's the memories.. it's your habits.. It's things you have heard, it's feelings you have felt, it's sensations. it's whatever you are doing (consciously or unconsciously) internally over and over and over - "re-affirming"
If you are affirming "they love me" .. and then not seeing evidence.
Go within and find what else you are affirming that's overriding the thought.
Are you constantly seeing the last memory of them saying "I don't want you"... or hearing it.
When you think of them - what is the instant "sensation" you are feeling ? Do you not get a memory, just a sick feeling in your stomach?
These are all imprints that are stored interally. Every single time you think of that person, these things are "RE_AFFIRMING" over and over.
And Which one do you think is going win out?
The one that's buried in the unconscious.. with strong emotional attachment.
And thats exaclty why EFT Tapping works so well.... it allows all these memory's and imprints to release.. or rather it's resets the attachment to these things.
I constantly hear people say .. things like.. I have been affirming and affirming and affirming for xxx amount of days/weeks/months and my first thought towards them is.. well have you cleared out the shit undernearth before trying to put the new stuff on top?
It's already full... you have to empty some out first before refilling it back up.
You can't put new wine into old wineskins - Neville Quote.