family

why is it that you when you are with people that you haven't see for an extended period of time that they start to get on your nerves fairly quickly. We are from Ohio and we only see our extened family about twice a year, but while we are there and being with the people that we miss and love I find myself feeling suffocated and wanting to come up for a breath. I get frustrated easily and hurt easily and then i lash out and hurt others. I feel particularly like this with my mom, she is the best grandma and the kids love her and she loves then and enjoyes spending time with them. But, she gets into her ruts where she wants to have everything schedualed, and if we take the kids and go see someone that I haven't seen in a while we'll be there about a half and hour or an hour and she wants to leave. This happened today and I had to tell her to calm down and tell her she was getting on my nerves and then I felt like I had hurt her feelings. Family can be tough.