Insightful and thoughtful post! I was thinking about the relationship between child and parent. Coming from an Asian background (or maybe it is just me), the respect for and the hierarchical setting of elders (including parents) makes it a funny fit with love. If course the love is there, but a sense of duty seems to be the central structure, when the child is young, the duty of the parent is to to care. When the child is older and the parents are older, the duty of care reverses.
It is weird, my parents brought us up in a fairly western way, but somehow this sense is still strong for me and my brother...
I see nothing wrong with that duty to care for another being. Just think how much better this world would be if more people had that sense of duty, a duty to care for another human being. Thank you for your lovely comment and for sharing your personal experience 💚