It drove me crazy and insecure

When I just started with my current job, I had a female colleague that seemed to dislike me. Whatever I said, she always had an opinion about it and always disagreed with me.

It drove me crazy and made me insecure. I was smart enough to realize that I did not something that she could respond to, but I could't put my finger on it.

Until one day that she again said something to me that triggered me immensely and I went to the restrooms to calm down a bit.

There I realized that I was triggered as a grown up man, but that it was actually the child in me that was touched and although I did not know at all how to do that then, I gave comfort to my inner child and from that moment on, I never had a problem with her anymore.