Dysfunctional partnerships

 Darling daughter and I have been talking lately about partners, because she had some trouble with her BF recently (they've worked it out), but it got me thinking about how many of our relationships and connections, even tenuous ones, are basically partnerships, with norms and expectations. I'm even including my landlord and my terrible neighbor who shares my building. So much of the frustration in life seems to me to come from these dysfunctional partnerships - where people violate the norms or cause puzzlement by their behavior. It's been helpful to me to think of the situation this way. It makes it easier somehow to cope with the disappointment - that people aren't necessarily mean or rude, but rather, don't know how to operate effectively in a partnership.