ok cool! So there are some parallels that tell the audience that thanos did love his daughters, but that can happen in the same space as him treating them awfully.
There were a lot of different things, like thor killing thanos early in the movie as he tries to apologize to nebula "Maybe I should have treated you better" kinda showing that he felt some semblance of remorse, but his motivations skewed and made that apology extraordinarily subpar, and when thor decapitated him I read that as not just an extension of his own anger but anger on the behalf of Gamora and Nebula's treatment by thanos, and the multiple scenes with parents and the avengers, (I blanked out when Thor talked to his mom but supposedly it was really good because she was an amazing parent) like when Tony talked to Howard and the audience learns (once again) that Howard was an awful father but as a 50 something Tony has moved on from his childhood and only looks back remembering the bad to make sure he doesn't repeat that with his kid, showing another actual good parent
but the main comparison was when clint and nat had to get the soul stone, the same way thanos got it. They loved each other, validating the reading that thanos did love gamora, but they also fought each other to see which one would die (it was natasha) showing that while the love was there, the contexts were different, one being a deep friendship and trust that their death would not be in vain, and the other showing a different love that many could read as something different, but the universe's rules meant both had to be love for it to work
ultimately the movie shows that your reading is right (love doesn't equal non violent actions) and it also shows that just because thanos loved his daughters didn't mean he wasn't abusive and genocidal
oh and if its any consolidation the movie as shows that thanos' actions (explicitly because he said this) were not about balancing the universe but about him wanting control and gratitude, which the universe did not give him and so he switches his plan to complete genocide
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There were a lot of different things, like thor killing thanos early in the movie as he tries to apologize to nebula "Maybe I should have treated you better" kinda showing that he felt some semblance of remorse, but his motivations skewed and made that apology extraordinarily subpar, and when thor decapitated him I read that as not just an extension of his own anger but anger on the behalf of Gamora and Nebula's treatment by thanos, and the multiple scenes with parents and the avengers, (I blanked out when Thor talked to his mom but supposedly it was really good because she was an amazing parent) like when Tony talked to Howard and the audience learns (once again) that Howard was an awful father but as a 50 something Tony has moved on from his childhood and only looks back remembering the bad to make sure he doesn't repeat that with his kid, showing another actual good parent
but the main comparison was when clint and nat had to get the soul stone, the same way thanos got it. They loved each other, validating the reading that thanos did love gamora, but they also fought each other to see which one would die (it was natasha) showing that while the love was there, the contexts were different, one being a deep friendship and trust that their death would not be in vain, and the other showing a different love that many could read as something different, but the universe's rules meant both had to be love for it to work
ultimately the movie shows that your reading is right (love doesn't equal non violent actions) and it also shows that just because thanos loved his daughters didn't mean he wasn't abusive and genocidal
oh and if its any consolidation the movie as shows that thanos' actions (explicitly because he said this) were not about balancing the universe but about him wanting control and gratitude, which the universe did not give him and so he switches his plan to complete genocide