The Angels – You live in a world of unspoken agreements and implicit expectations. You live in a world where many feel that if they do “x” someone owes them “y.” A parent raises a child and expects that child to take care of them in later years. A woman or man is a dutiful daughter or son and expects their parent’s blessing when they finally make their own choices. A partner sacrifices his or her own dreams for the other, expecting to be loved and supported in return. Perhaps. alternately a partner supports the other financially and expects to be loved for being the provider.
While these are certainly reasonable requests, they become troublesome when they are left as unspoken expectations. If you do something with an expectation of having someone else do something or behave a certain way in return, then you have, in effect, stopped treating the other person as a soul, and started treating them as an “object” – a thing that must behave in a certain manner. Inevitably, this leads to disappointment, bitterness, upset and even hatred in extreme cases.
In reality you are all learning, growing, and trying to assist one another towards greater understandings of love.