Yeah this one is tough especially for me !
I think it's like this- when you buy your tickets for a holiday that's 6 months away you get very excited that day you book the tickets and for a day or so after. That's setting your intention. But you don't keep that level of excitement for the whole 6 months, but you are positive and looking forward to it. Then when the day grows very close, your excitement goes up again and the day you're getting on the plane, you're very very excited. So it's ok to feel excited when your desire is literally taking place, when your person does say 'I love you' again, then get excited ! It's ok to build up excitement as you know the day is approaching where he will and it's fine to keep that level when you set out the intention for a day or so but if you keep feeling an intense level of excitement , you'll realise that the more days go by and it's not happening, the more you lose faith that it will ever happen. That holiday is so far away, it's basically never going to happen kind of feeling.... but the holiday will happen, but now because you think it's so far away and you've been so excited and you realize that you're still going to work every day and suddenly each day is getting a bit more annoying....it's better to just be in a level of positive expectation than full on excitement to avoid feeling let down or disappointed. Also having too much emphasis on the desire makes your happiness in every day life a bit conditional, 'I'm so happy because my person is coming back to me!' as your mantra instead of 'I'm happy because it's a nice day and I'm having a lovely lunch and there's a pretty tree in front of me'  . The former starts to get irritating when you realise how much the thing you're happy about isn't actually there yet, the latter is better for a natural and real happiness. 

Thank you both of you.. truly appreciate your input LOVE xoxo