It takes more than a few weeks to earn someone's love.

"I would rather you stayed at home than earn your love in such a way."

Then the story is about how he changes himself and earns her love back.

All her life she'd tried so hard to earn these people's love, to be good enough, bvt she had never succeeded.

All the while, David desires only to become a real boy and earn a mother's love.

The individual can do nothing to earn or deserve God's love and forgiveness.

He said with a sign: "No, but on the other hand little to earn your love.

Do you really want to earn our love and loyalty?

And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born.

I feel that I need to earn other people's love or approval by doing things to make them happy.