They get on your nerves.

They piss you off.

They know exactly what buttons to push.

They know how to trigger you.

And somehow you get triggered every time.

Even when you try to stay awake, you lose it.

You snap.

And you're right back in it.

Right back in that cycle.

Right back experiencing that very familiar anger, that rage.

Who is angry?

Where is that anger rising?

Who is it rising in?

Where are you?

In your direct experience right now, where are you?

Anger may be there. Frustration, disappointment may be there.

But it is not happening in you. It is happening seemingly in that body, that surge of familiarity, those hormones, that way the body's been for so long,

in and out of that storm, in and out of that storm, in that storm, calm for a while,

back in the storm.

But you're not in and out of a storm.

You are not in the storm. you never were. You watch it

from the shelter. You watch it from me. That body is not you. The anger is not yours. That partner

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