Being Kind and Patient

In a conversation last night with Allen, we discussed his weight loss plan and how I was telling him how he wasn't following it. In the end, Allen basically said this:

“Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.”

(“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., New York: Oxford University Press, p. 585.)

I told him I would try; I would try to be kind and patient, but that I hoped he would understand that those are two things which are very difficult for me to do.