See now my father was an extremely volatile man with a fuse that was like ** this long. He would unleash such obscenities and go into such tyrades and take it out on his family regardless of who pissed him off, then he would calm down and like everything was cool again <--- sorta like what my mother went through during menopause.
And I swore I would NEVER be like that, and I am not.
When I feel that I am beginning to get upset, I leave the room and God help you if you follow me. I will keep leaving and leaving until I am done with being upset and can talk rationally because then I KNOW I will be better able to deal with the conflict at hand.
I absolutely HATE to say hurtfull things because I am angry and rarely do.