causeless affection

'he had never asked anything of them; it was they who wished to hold him, they who pressed a claim on him - and the claim seemed to have the form of affection, but it was a form which he found harder to endure than any sort of hatred. he despised causeless affection just as he despised unearned wealth.

they professed to love him for some unknown reason, and they ignored all the reasons for whilch he could wish to be loved.'

ayn rand
atlas shrugged