1. When someone springs something on me late notice.
I like to stick to a routine. I go to work each day looking forward to getting home and being alone, and I cherish my weekends because it allows me to recover from the week. Every once a while though someone will ask what I am doing that evening/day and I will feel obligated to be honest, tell them I have no plans, and then they will ask me to join them in whatever they're doing. At which point I will feel obligated to join them, so I will, I will pretend to be happy for them and then I won't feel rested until the next time I am alone. Sometimes those instances can make my frustrated and angry for days.
2. Travelling with people
The absolute worst is when someone wants me to come to their cottage for the weekend or go on vacation for a while. The people who have traveled with me see the worst side of me, I get so angry and moody, and when I am travelling I have a particularly hard time pretending I'm okay because there is so little time for me to recover. I may get some short span of time alone in the hotel or something but that is not nearly enough and certainly not as satisfying as being in my own space.
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