yes !! i love this question. thank u so much afkadgjdg. but, ahem, aback to the point. andromeda has trouble with expressing affection verbally, it means very little to her, and she had grown up without much affection ever being expressed. when she wants to show her love, she does it with actions. that can be a myriad of things ; collecting her children at unreasonable hours if they need her to ( for the sake of ease, i’m categorizing teddy as her child along with nymphadora, because its shorter. this title would also extend to draco, or any younger muses she feels maternal towards, but mostly just tonks and teddy. ) or when tonks was pregnant, drom insisted that she move back in, even though she was wanted by the ministry at the time. in terms of actions, even though she is a rather selfish person at times, she is incredibly loyal to this forged family she has made, either post leaving the blacks, or post the second wizarding war. she keeps her house incredibly clean, and it is because she values what it means to her : a home away from the blacks, and a place of independence to share with ted and her children. ( she did not enjoy cleaning at first, but found there was a lot of catharsis in it, and eventually grew to love it. even if she hated cleaning, she would have continued to maintain the house in a clean enough state, because of what it means to her. ) she is not very verbal with her love at all, but she is more than willing to postpone a half-made dinner to make someone’s favourite dinner to celebrate whatever it is they’ve achieved. she despises dogs, but when tonks got a scrup, she was the one doing most of the practical caring for it. she considers people providing things for her, such as financial stability, joy, companionship, to be rewarded with these kind of physical affections such as sex, food, cleaning, and any kind of physical tending. post war, she is actually quite promiscuous. in the absence of a husband to look after her and love her, she has a series of one night stands in order to pretend that she can love someone else / someone else cares for her. that is the most unconscious reasoning, the other reasons being that it feels good, that she hates sleeping, that it makes her feel a little powerful. also post war, she tends to be less restrictive with her maternal side ; her daughter is dead, and she ferociously wants something to fill this gap in her heart. she loses her husband, daughter, best friend, estranged sister -- who murdered her daughter -- and so she runs away, once more, from expressing her feelings, instead letting them pent up inside her and explode over things that don’t matter. also post war, she feels extremely suffocated. she cannot talk or connect to people, she cannot bring herself to care about much. she goes outside and drinks and does all of these things to feel something, but it rarely works, and leads to her alcoholism and self-destructive tendencies.