limitless expression of love

When considering that "actions speak louder than words" in your relationship, how does mindless consumption (outside of the basic needs for food, housing, safety) remove the creative and intense power of intimate connection? 

When choosing to primarily meet the need of connection with material objects, the relationship itself becomes secondary - meeting the person, connecting to the individual, and enhancing the relationship covertly morphs into objectifying the need to connect and shoving it into a box that can be wrapped, used, and eventually discarded. 

How can you better express love toward your partner with limitless creativity and abundance?

Trim the excess.

Require connection to what you truly NEED
in your relationship

[AND] 

Discover how you can give to each other without the compulsion to meet that intimate demand with fleeting materials and temporary excess.