Does that mean for the next 40, 50 years she's supposed to do without any love or affection?

He looked at me sadly, and not without affection, I thought.

I clearly could not have completed this project without your dedication and affection.

"That's why we never watch the race together," said her husband, not without affection.

"I think most of the people are cheap," he said, not without affection.

She is what Williams called, not without affection, something of a monster.

She took her arm away and looked at me without affection.

He peered at himself in the mirror without affection, then shook his head.

He wanted to kiss her, if only on the cheek, because she had obviously gone years without such affection.

Having read 2d as without affection, it's no wonder I couldn't get the correct solution!