one person who makes me angry

Postby launchboxbill » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:03 am

in the world, theres one person who can make me turn from a happy chappy to a shouting bastard.

ive generally got good anger management. I dont really have problems with anger anywhere nowadays, except to this one person who for some reason makes my blood boil. its a very inconvenient position too. all my friends, relations, and the like, can do things to anger me but i dont care, i can get over it, work it out, talk it through. its usually other people getting angry and then getting more angry that im not angry!

but this person can make me instantly start shouting at their face, wanting them out of my space. its not that i want to actively hurt them, i just want them to go away. i often resort to physically trying to push them out of my room because theyre pissing me off by just being around. i just want them to shuttup because it seems theyre so DUMB sometimes, and never take in waht I have to say anyway. this might be the reason it happens. i can be happily doin whatever, then they will come into the room, ask me something theyve asked me a million times, patronise me, or simply want to stay around and talk about something that i will not talk about something.

when i try to get them to leave they make out like its a violation.. but ive tried so many things and the only way i can get them to leave me alone (ive tried a lot of things such as remaining calm, talking things through but that makes them seem to want to stay around longer) is by raising my voice to a shout (and then once again being made out like this is a violation which makes me even more angry - 'dont shout at me!' 'if i dont shout you dont LISTEN!' 'dont raise your voice!' ' OMG PISS OFF'), physically trying to move the person out the door so i can close it and lock it and get on with my business (work, rest or play, whatever it is), or by telling them what i really think about them, which makes them sad and go mope, which in turn makes me feel guilty when they didnt have to come talk to me at all and i told them to leave the subject alone so much AAARRRGGHHJHH.

ive never hit them, and i never would, but they seem to treat me trying to shift them out of my room as almost the same sort of thing.

they can make me angry by moving things, by tidying my stuff, by just commenting on the state of my room.

i wish this didnt have to happen. we have a great relationship whenever the person doesnt try to get involved with my actual life.
of course thats not really an option for the moment

it just makes it worse and worse as they get older and begin to lose the judgement and awareness they used to have, and as i get older and more impatient with their lack of understanding to my increasingly individual life.

and it sucks that i can get over anger with everyone and everything except them because ive had my whole life trying ways around it and the only thing that works is ignoring the person which makes my situation worse.

i think you can all guess who this person is
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Postby TalkToMe » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:30 pm

I can relate to what you are experiencing. I had to deal with a toxic person in my life also. Sometimes, the people who make us the most angry are ironically the closest people in our lives because we feel that we have no sense of privacy from them or sense of individuality. In my case, I opted to disconnect the person and move on because there was nothing beneficial to my life that she was contributing towards. Distance I think is the best bet in a situation similar to yours. I read a study not too long ago (sorry, I don't have the ciatation) that showed that the divorce rate among couples was the highest amongst those couples who spent the most time together....and the relationship was the strongest amongst couples who took periodic breaks from each other, such as like business travels. I'm not saying that this is your situation, but whether it be parent/child, or any other relationship, periodic breaks from each other are a good thing because it allows each person to refocus on their own lives rather than the other person's life.
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Postby launchboxbill » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:46 am

i wonder if a forumula could be created to give a rate of being together that is best
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Postby timetogetunstuck » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:28 am

launchboxbill wrote:in the world, theres one person who can make me turn from a happy chappy to a shouting bastard.
.......

i think you can all guess who this person is


The bad news is that it's YOU!

:lol: :lol:
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Postby launchboxbill » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:30 am

well unless you have some brilliant logic behind that, ill just pass it off as a silly joke :?
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Postby TalkToMe » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:54 pm

Yeah....A cure-all formula would be nice to solve all our problems wouldn't it? Too bad that every relationship is structured differently. But the plus side to that is that everyone knows what their own formula is--its enough time to allow us to think rationally while being with that person. For some, it might be 30 minutes to an hour....for others it might mean 30 years...it really depends on your level of self-control and your willingness to work things out.
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