They say only a person you love will infuriate you.
I don't know about that.
There are plenty of people in this world who piss me off and I don't even like or know most of them. Love was never a factor.
However, maybe when you love someone, and they you, they also know which buttons to push. How many times and in which order to drive you out of your mind.
The boy is an expert in this area. And, I do love him more than life itself.
He knows the right combinations to make me want to just choke him with my bare hands.
My mother once told me (or maybe several times - it's hard to count the multiple lectures I received throughout my life) "One day you'll understand."
At the time I thought she was a crazy woman just babbling at me.
Now I see that maybe she saw my future and was actually clairvoyant.
Crazy or not, I'm beginning to believe her. Or at least understand the frustration of having a surly teen.
Just don't tell her I said so.
