My partner has always said he feels his parents didn't acknowledge his acheivements or praise him. They only noticed things to critisise.
I've noticed he does this to me. I do something around the house, he never comments let alone says it looks nice etc.
Example, I ask him to help me move the wooden garden furniture onto the grass so I can treat it before the winter.
He helps move it. Later when he comes home and nearly trips over the newly treated furniture, he doesn't say a word.
I make a cake. He comes in, sees it, doesn't say a word. Later I see he has eaten half of it, but has said nothing to me.
Just a couple of examples. I don't need his praise but I just wonder sometimes if it is deliberate. I don't think I could eat something someone else had cooked and not even comment or acknowledge it, for example.
I understand that this is learnt behaviour but I do struggle to understand how he can be so indifferent to everything someone he loves does.