Little care - great love!
The biggest gift that one person can give to another is an understanding of the fact that you are causing positive feelings in another person. Understanding that the fact of your existence is bother with someone, and does not matter, in a positive or negative sense. It is no wonder that for children the most unbearable behavior of parents is not anger (although it is not pleasant), but full, icy indifference. It is important for us to be perceived as living, emotional people with our needs. That is why care is the most important component of our relationship.
How to determine care? For example, what is one of the most heartfelt care demonstration for me personally? The hot tea with pancakes in a cold, still unheated apartment comes to my mind immediately. I don't ask for it, and I don't think about tea. Just my soulmate suddenly thought of me, and decided, on such a foggy day, I would be fine with this tea and pancakes. And it becomes very nice to me, warmth in the soul. It is not because of the tea as such, but because that someone was worried about my condition.
When I ask the companions about the most instinctive examples of caring for them, they usually remember very simple things and, as a rule, they are not expected at the moment when they were committed. Plaid on chilled shoulders and stark hands in large and warm hands (a lot of memories that were literally related to warming); an unexpected offer from a friend to help and it happens when that help is so needed, and the friend is not obliged to do it at all, and you didn’t ask him for help. A man who stops his car and gets out of it to help an elderly woman get through a slippery road.
It means that care is an action that communicates to another person the message "I see that something is going on with you, and I worry about this." In other words, care is an action that is primarily determined by the needs and feelings of the one to whom it is directed, not the one who cares.
And what does care mean to you?