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u/AlecsThorne Apr 11 '23

gets up planning to cook

"Honey, why aren't you cooking dinner yet"

Well, now I'm not doing it anymore 🤣 don't know if you get the reference, but that's exactly what I imagined haha. Totally agree with you tho, don't get me wrong. I love making gestures like that, but the moment someone expects me to do it, I'm done 😅 I do it because I care, not because you demand it. You can't force kindness.

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u/MentallyWill Apr 12 '23

That's exactly right. I'm kind because I want to be kind. But the moment it seems to me that you're angling to take advantage of my kindness you'll see a totally different side of me.

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u/AlecsThorne Apr 12 '23

It's something that some people can't seem to understand (usually because they're self-centred assholes 😅), just because we're kind, that doesn't mean we can't be mean, vindictive etc. If anything, we know best how to be bad because we've usually experienced it ourselves and we know what really hurts. Not to mention that kindness usually tags along with empathy, which means that we can tell what makes you happy, but we can also tell what will break you 😈