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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry this is happening. As a father, I can say that I've felt this type of anger before and I'm embarrassed that I've even cursed at my young child for waking me up in the middle of the night. I was really stressed out, etc. Not an excuse, but I didn't have any tools to deal with the massive shifts in my life that two young children brought.

I was always stressed about money (because I wanted my wife to have long maternity leave or work PT). As I climbed the ladder at work, I couldn't maintain a balance between the hours I had to be elsewhere and when my wife needed me home. I was running from one stressful situation to another...never feeling like I was giving enough.

I can say that it got easier as my kids got older and could better articulate their needs. But I also found that I needed a more intense level of therapy and parenting support. I recommend looking in to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). It gave me more concrete skills to improve my parenting and engage better with my kids/wife in stressful moments.

Good luck and remember these are some of the harder times in parenting (aside from the teen years which are a real bit*@ if you don't get this type of anger under control). 
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