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Old Jul 22, 2010, 05:10 AM
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Before my marriage broke up, there were many times I would not understand why my XH would suddenly be angry. We would be talking about something innocuous it seemed to me, and he would get mad and not say why. Towards the end I got braver and asked a couple of times why he was angry at me? What did I do? What did I say? I really did not know. And he would yell at me, "I am not angry at you!!" and I would cower. If he's not angry, why is he yelling at me?
He did not say he was not angry; he said he was not angry at you. Could have been angry at someone else from his past; could have been angry at himself...
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