Chronic anger

No

I would be provoked, name called, cussed out, threatened with divorce, quietly behind closed doors for hours

I’ve never retaliated

The end of our marriage was precipitated by our oldest entering counselling for cptsd for hearing his mom’s endless anger at me through the bedroom wall.

I told her I’d chalked it all up to depression and illness. I wasn’t looking for an apology. But she had to validate to him that this stuff happened

No. It never did. It was him hearing ME yelling. It was MY endless anger at night. It had been me keeping her up night after night since years and even waking her to fight. She even told our youngest that she had to be protected from my chronic anger.

So. That’s the narrative