Adults should be able to manage their emotions and life so that they don't become overwhelmed and take it out on another person. Adults should know that they alone are responsible for what they say and do. If you are overwhelmed, seek help to learn new ways of managing stress. |
Better than getting divorced. Have you seen that effect on kids? |
Ya think? |
You actually think it is better to stay in a home with two parents who fight and yell? |
So you agree it is not justified to yell at someone? |
Who justified it? You are completely missing the point of what people are saying. |
Yep. |
Most people have. The OPs point was about her mother's behaviour which turned into many posts about how its her dads fault that mom berates him and shouts at him because of the dynamic. And then many posters went on to say how they take out their frustration on their husbands and yell at him but that is his fault, not theirs. That it is justified to yell and shout and berate your spouse if you are doing it because of something they did or didn't do that frustrated you - then any aggressive or abusive action you take is on them, not on you. And if they bring it on themselves then it shouldn't be called abuse. Most of this thread is women justifying why they can be as nasty as they want to their husbands because he deserves it. |
Ok. I guess women need to be more stoic and graceful about feeling at the end of their rope lest their husbands hear loud noises. |
An adult who is overwhelmed should be able to regulate and manage their emotions and communicate without being abusive. Neither men or women should abuse their spouses when they become overwhelmed. It isn't a complicated thing. If you aren't able to regulate or manage your emotions then your kids are also at risk of being abused and you justifying it as they deserved it. If you can't cope with your emotions without yelling, shouting, berating, hitting, throwing things...you need to get professioal help. I don't think men or women or children need to put up with an abusive spouse or parent who feels justified in that abuse and feels their spouse / child deserved it. |
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I am sure there are similar threads on other boards of men who justify abusing their wives because they deserve it just like this one is doing.
Neither is okay to me. |
What advice do you have for men who consistently ignore their wives and not help out the way they have been asked or agreed to? Is that not its own form of abuse? Seems like this is a two way street. Seems like people having an intense reaction to the idea of raised voices but not the consistent undermining, taking advantage of, gaslighting, and other things that preceded a raised voice. It’s all bad. |
Such as: she got fat so I had an affair? That’s pretty common around here. |
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Many thanks to the comments in this thread for my morning dose of anti-regret for choosing a life of independence/singledom.
So many marriages are prisons of their own making. |
In general. But the abused wife fighting back actually is a thing. Despite what you may see on one isolated occasion you don’t actually know what’s going on (from either the husband or wife’s perspective.) Of course I believe OP that for her family her mom really was a yeller. And constant yelling can verge into emotional abuse. But that’s very different from saying everyone woman who yells is an abuser. You can’t assume that just because a woman appears in one moment to be an aggressor that she is in the wrong. Gabby Petito is dead because of that assumption. |