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anger · emotional · relationships · leadership

I blow up or I shut down

Short fuse, cold silence, replayed arguments, shame after.

Diagnosis

Both explosion and freeze are untrained pressure responses. The feeling is not the sin. The unmanaged discharge onto people who did not earn that round is.

Protocol · 0 / 3

The standard: Notice earlier. Speak later. Repair same day.

Fired = did it · Misfire = didn't

“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”

James 1:19–20