Week 9: D2

After reading Chapter 8 in its entirety, answer the following question: Are you a person who tends to blow up, do you express your anger calmly, or do you simply not express it at all?  What are the outcomes of expressing anger in this way?

I think I express anger in many different ways due to the situation that I am in.  Sometimes I tend to blow up but there are other times when I am calm. I am more likely to blow up if I am arguing with someone and I seem to cannot get my ideas into the other person’s head. I can get pretty heated up when I do not get my way or it seems as if this argument will not end. With this I have damage some relationships in the past because I acted irrationally. But this is a rather rare occurrence because I have learned to control my anger. When I act calmly, I tend to just listen to the person because I am interested in what they are saying. I think this happens because I treasure the relationship more and I do not want to blow on them. Because I act more calmly in a conflict I am able to solve it with more agreeable terms.