Taken for granted

Dear Ella,

Found this - and I think it pretty much applies to the relationship between child and mother.  In that - who else can you take so much for granted - but almost gain so much comfort from.  Also can totally see it between friends and partners - who else can you be "off" or even foul to - when you have spent all day being nice to others??

I know I took my Mum for granted on any number of occasions - and am trying really hard to not take others for granted now - 54 years in and still trying!

Lots of love

Mum
Xxx

“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."

- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head