What happens when you get angry?

I don't mean upset. But the kind of anger that might happen when your husband trades in the payed off car for a truck with a high payment without telling you he was even thinking of doing such a thing.

Do you hold it in?

Do you let it out?

Does it fester and eventually everything builds and builds until you finally explode?

Or are you able to work through it in a level-headed fasion?

It takes a LOT to get me angry. But when I do, I get dizzy, my face flushes (blood preasure going up?), my hands shake and stuff comes out of my mouth that usually makes no sense, though sometimes every other word might be understood if you are a sailor on shore leave. Luckily I can count on one hand the times I've been this angry.

My husband on the other hand has the "flash in the pan" kind of anger that doesn't take much to set off. It burns hot and fast and is over within a minute. I learned just to study my nails until he snaps out of it, usually within a minute or two. Than he becomes a resonable human once again and see's things my way. The kids have learned that when punishments are handed out when he is angry, like a 6 month grounding, they will eventually be shortened to a weekend.

So how do you handle anger? Can you control it or does it control you?

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