are paid to
that special person with whom you think you have a future and are willing to devote a lot of
time and
energy to nurturing a relationship. It is
an investment in the relationship's future.
Payments are usually made to
friends or
lovers in the form of
a shoulder to cry on,
going to their parents for dinner,
listening attentively for the hundredth time about how much they hate
work, their
ex-lover, their
hair or their
life.