I'm perturbed. I'm a bit angry, too. Arrrrrgh.
Cultural differences really do get my goat.

A simple misunderstanding left my SM friend upset, and she told me so.
That made me upset.

I'm ready to be around people who understand me...

but will I encounter more of the same miscommunications at home?
Am I glorifying home as a paradise it is not?
Am I hoping for Happily Ever After (Wisconsin ed.), when I know it can't be real, I know it's too good to be true?

Yeah. I am.