trial and error

My mother spends a lot of time screaming at/about my dad being an ungrateful bastard.
I love my dad, but he’s always been an ungrateful bastard. “Acceptance” does seem to mean “stop being constantly surprised by shit you knew you to be true” in this case.

In my past relationship, after several rounds of the prerequisite trial and error (where you decide whether to just “accept” that a person is a douche), I was still amazed at how asshole my partner could be…every single time. It was like banging my head against a wall and being like “Oh shit, that hurts”…every single time. I mean our relationship wasn’t bad all the time, those were the periods of peace between the head banging.