Quote: Why are two year olds SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD????????
I don't know, but I've found that if I mentally replace the word "bad" with the word "spirited", I am better able to deal with them. They are just very HD for things like cookies and hitting acquaintances on the head with plastic bats. Perhaps we would all be better served if we brought a bit of the spirited self-involvement of a two-year-old cookie monster to bear upon the problem of a SSM. After all, if you threw a complete temper tantrum every time Mr. H seemed unwilling to give you sex, you would give him a very clear two-choice dilemma in which he would have to choose between f*cking you or calling the men in the white jackets.
Actually, this relates to the other mental trick I used to use when dealing with two-year-olds, I would just observe to myself that if an adult behaved that way in my presence I would have to call the police. Recognizing this fact allowed me to rationalize my anger and thereby dissipate it.
P.S. The third trick I used was to tell myself that though I couldn't possibly take on a two-year-old in terms of sheer energy and force of will, I was more intelligent than a two-year-old. Thus, if you had visited my home circa 1989 you would have found a kitchen in which all the cupboards and the refridgerator were sealed with bungee cords.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
