Contagious Gratitudes

Honey, sometimes I feel my grateful care-giving for our mutual care-receiving grows increasingly under-valued by you and so, perhaps for that reason, also under-valued by me. Are you suggesting, my generous lover, that positive gratitude, like negative attitude, is contagious? Yes, that. But also I worry you believe your ultimate gratitude for my generosity is to apathetically receive ever more of my care, rather than to repay in-kind over our relational time together. Does expressing my gratitude with civil please and thank yous and you are greatly welcome and with I owe you some good care-receiving in return count as at least partial care-giving repayment? Yes, and so would taking out the recycling basket when you fill it, rather than just leaving it over-flowing with your Earth-resident care-giving for me to take out for us, as if I were your care-giving robot nutritionally-compensated for a robust future by your mere past care-receiving patriarchal presence within us. Are you suggesting the absence of my care-giving actions speaks louder than the presence of my care-giving words? Something like that, yes. Well, thanks for that future care-optimizing feedback. You are quite welcome to act with care even before you speak of our mutual care. Is the recycle basket overflowing with my care-giving again? I thought you might have noticed when your glass bottles fell to the floor. Oh, I thought that was just matriarchal Earth's gravity saying ThankYou. No, that's Her way of saying it's past time to clean up your care-giving act.