LMo, first of all, thank you for validating something I've said. It sure feels good!

My angry faces and the head banging come from frustration of saying things in as many ways as I can possibly think of and it's always taken the wrong way; as an attack or to purposely hurt that person. That has never been my intention! But will they believe me? NO! They'd rather tell me what I'm thinking and how I'm feeling. Like my daughter used to say when she was little, "You don't have my feelings." Why can't people accept that the intention wasn't to hurt??

Yeah, ok. So their perception is different from mine. LMo, you know what I do. I stop and think to see if there's even a grain of truth in what was said. Maybe I have the courage that others lack to be able to accept critizism, I don't know. But if I find that grain of truth, I accept it and try my darndest to change it. So there's been times that I've felt I needed to defend myself because I thought the greater wrong was done by the other person. Sorry, but I don't have acceptance of my bad points mastered. I'm a damn sight better than I was, though... and thanks to you!