Venus in Capricorn

Capricorn is cardinal earth ruled by Saturn. Venus here is restrained and durable: affection is undemonstrative, commitment is treated as a real obligation, and a relationship is built the way anything else is built, slowly and on purpose. These people value competence and reliability in a partner, and their taste runs to quality over quantity. The cost is coolness in the early years, a tendency to treat love as a duty, and real difficulty asking for the tenderness they want.