Tag: anger management

You’re having an absolutely lousy day. Work was awful, your car is making that squeaky noise again and you’re pretty sure you’re coming down with a cold. Your spouse is being entirely unreasonable, expecting you to get dinner together for the boss and his wife with no more than an hour’s notice. You can’t greet your newly invited guests when they arrive because—no big surprise—you’re hopping around with one shoe on frantically looking for the other one trying to get dressed. For this, the love-of-your-life bawls you out—surreptitiously of course, under the guise of "helping you" once you’re back in the kitchen.

When you try—biting your tongue very hard so as not to scream—to gently point out that you were moving as fast as you can, instead of the, "Oh, honey, so sorry I sprang this on you last-minute, you’re the best wife on earth to pull it off" you feel you deserve, you get a sarcastic "Yeah, right.