Old history. It took a while for me to learn that my anger hurt only me and did nothing to diffuse the situation, make my opponent, enemy, interlocutor rethink or change his position. A hard but important lesson.
A wonderful tool for parents to teach their children… how to deal with conflict, anger, fear or the other negative emotions in ways that might be effective and not eat up the lining of your stomach.
My mother’s trick, when she was angry at my father, was to stop talking to him and use me (a pre-teen) as a go-between.
After he died and she was dating, she used to run away (go to some nice Inn in the country) without telling her boyfriend.