Sleeper, have to say you`re a whole LOT more patient with your W than I am with my H. It just seems impossible to live with all these unresolved childhood issues stuff, especially when he`s making no attempt to seek professional help and thoroughly believes I am to blame.

Thanks for your support though. Yes, have to say I`m finally stepping back from his anger instead of jumping right into it like I would have in the past. Boy, its like a furnace.

Thanks Stormrider for the tip re having a message ready for the next window. I really want to ask him not to jump down my throat so suddenly and to rage on and on. He doesn`t do it/has never done it to anyone else-ever.Its just the sudden shock of that out of the blue jolt that really knocks me for six.

I checked on the kids after,one asleep, one happily reading a book and the tird watching TV. They didn`t hear him but of course they know when dad`s in a bad mood.

It sure is no fun.

Appreciate your posts very much, Sleeper and Storm Rider.Dunno where this is going to go.