What kind of thing is kindness?

Kindness is gold. 
When you say you want a partner who is kind, many people immediately think you mean a person who will give you gifts, create opportunities or offer you a leg up on the ladder of success. While all that may be good, that isn’t what we mean by kindness.

Because kindness is not the same thing as generosity.
​Kindness isn’t about things. It’s more about thoughts.
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Kindness will make you a cup of tea before you’re awake. Or reverse your car out of the garage because you are prone to attracting palm trees and pillars. Kindness will forfeit sleep to listen to you muddle through a problem that is keeping you awake, not because there is a reward at the end of it, but because its important to you. Kindness carries your problem as if it is not yours alone.
​Kindness remembers to burn your favourite essential oil in your room on the day you come back from a trip. So that you come home to the smell of home.

Kindness will run you a bubble bath and rub your feet, even if you are not pregnant.

Kindness is not the same as sympathy.
It is much more alike to empathy.

Kindness will never put you in a position to be humiliated or embarrassed.  Kindness will protect you and advocate on your behalf.  Kindness wont play games to leave you bewildered and unsure.  Kindness makes it clear who you are in a person’s life, and never leaves you wondering. It behaves consistently with what it says.  Kindness gives you a place at the table and never lets anyone threaten that place.

Kindness is a quality that recognises the preciousness of others alongside the preciousness of self.  It is an input that negates the usual transactional exchange of value and seeks the good of another for its own sake.
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Kindness is thoughtful and tender.
Kindness cares.

Kindness in fact, is true friendship.
If your partner is a your friend, then you my dear, have gold.

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