Reflections

My older daughter seems so needy sometimes.  It makes me want to jump out of my skin.  I know I should love being needed, but sometimes I just want to be left alone.  My whole life, I can't think of anyone that I wanted to spend a 14 hour day with.  Not even myself.  Today I realize that it is the mirror of my own interior world and neediness that drives me crazy.  I am as clingy and needy as she is.  If I could, I would cling to my husband's leg and plead with him to carry me if I could.  This is precisely  what drives me nuts about my daughter.   It is the reflective nature of having children that makes them so tedious.  Not their needs but what needs of your own that they reflect upon you.