I alternately appreciate and hate (fear) my T.

Often love and hate are part of the same thing. Hate is when he/she seems too scary to be loved. Transference. Elevating the beloved/hated to something she/he is not really.

Like both sides in the confrontation between Ahmadinijad and president Lee Bollinger of Columbia University yesterday. BOTH sides. Neither realizes what is going on, between them, or between the respective countries' leaders.

FWIW