Caring is too much
I care about you. That could feel very positive; someone has your best interests at heart, likely thinks good of you, has your back. Nice. It might not if my caring for you is transactional in any way, but let's leave that for a moment and assume it is just plain, old fashioned caring. That's quite a hard thing to do though. My caring for you might not be transactional at all, but that doesn't mean you don't think it actually is, either because you know it is or your expectation is that it will be at some point. Which means we need to think about what I mean by transactional things. Transactional Things We have transactions all the time. When we buy something, that is a transaction, it is understood that we will exchange something of ours, usually money, for something that someone else has that we want. I really want a copy of the Ghost Hounds' album (and who wouldn't, have a listen to their tune Bad News ) and I understand that to get it I need to part with so...