by Alex Lickerman

It’s an uncomfortable paradox that the people closest to us often frustrate us the most.  My theory about this is that we all have a certain level of tolerance for frustration that diminishes with repeated exposure to a situation or a person we find frustrating.  Thus we more easily manage our frustration at the beginning of a frustrating experience and with people we’ve only just met, but as time passes and our frustration continues, our ability to manage it steadily decreases.

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