Kindness is something our spouses can use daily.  They often don’t know they need it or even how to ask for it.  They just know when they are out of kindness.

Kindness is the oil in a relationship.  Let me explain this.  Most of us men know that the parts in an engine move very fast, and most of us also feel that our lives are like that as well.  We are working hard, chauffeuring kids, volunteering at church, helping out friends and tending to the house.

Like the engine, oil is what keeps the engine lubricated so as to reduce friction, overheating and the eventual locking up of the engine; and kindness is that oil in a marriage.