Consideration for someone

[Tom]

Dear All

If someone of my closest friends or cousins is not returning the money I have loaned him, and I am utterly unable to ask or even mention it in a roundabout manner because of the natural feeling-------but what?

I want to know the exact terminology for this feeling. Is it just consideration?? E.g Just because of the consideration I have for him, I did not mention the money i had loaned him.(Am I correct in this sentence?)

It happens many times: You remain unable to ask the friend to pay the bill beacuse of???( I mean the same feeling) The child is writing on the walls of your Drawing room, but you would stay quiet because of his mother sitting there. Though you are not afraid of the mother, you do not want to say anything for one feeling???eg

I could not stop the child because I had-----------for his mother.
ps: This is not the feeling of respect

Thanks in advance

Tom

[Pamela]

Maybe, it's a feeling of embarrasment,awkwardness.As for me I bear the very feeling in similar situations.

[Yankee]