My sister is the most important person in the world to me.
And yet I probably couldn't count the times I've made her cry.
She's very opinionated and strong-willed, but she values my opinion, and the things I say matter to her. This is not to say that she doesn't have an equal effect on me - she does.
We were talking tonight about her ideas about some things and I was challenging some things because I was surprised at how adamant she was about defining certain people a certain way. I'm not in total disagreement. But partial.
And I thought she was taking it in stride and we could spar back and forth.
But all of a sudden she started to cry and ask me why was I being so mean and said that I'd been mean to her yesterday as well. (I don't even remember what I could have said to her yesterday that may have been construed as rude or mean.)
I apologized.
But I don't know what happened. It seemed like things were fine and then they weren't.
My confession is that I think she's too sensitive. In the "she can dish it out but she can't take it" kind of way. I think this would also make her cry.
::sigh::
