This is a poem published on the facebook page of a poet that I really like, Holly McNish.
it’s not you they hate
not really you they roll their eyes at
yell to go away, claim has ruined
their day their night their life [... see link for the rest]
Reading this made tears well up for me - I spend so much of the time that I have with the DC that I love to bits just having to fight every minute to get them to do the things they need to do, and I hate being the ogre who forces such awful things as cleanliness, health, education and civilised behaviour into their life.