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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Topic of Anger
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 22:09:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 22:09:59 1984
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I've found that anger is actually pretty easy to handle 95% of the time.
(And it only took me a few years beyond a failed marriage to find out. :-)
That's because it's usually only ONE of you who's angry at a time.  If
you're the one who's angry, let your feelings out [but you don't have to go
for blood].  If you're not the one who's angry, try to figure out what's
going on as soon as you can and get it straightened out.  The only ones
that are hard to deal with are where you're both angry, but they don't need
to happen very often if you handle the others right.

Get your anger out in the open as soon as you can.  When you hold it in,
you just build up for a big let-go that's going to put your SO in a corner
from which it's difficult to come out and apologize without feeling a fool.

I'm NOT saying that you have to be running around foaming at the mouth all
the time - quite the opposite.  Say something while you can keep it at the
level of "I'm upset...why did you do that?" instead of "&^$$%#$@!!!!!"

Obviously, it helps to be compatible.  That reduces the opportunity for
conflict.  If you're in the habit of fighting, you get good at it; if
you're in the habit of getting along, you get good at it.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.