My mama taught me to do this, she told me that living with my daddy sometimes made her so mad she just wanted to scream and shout and cry, but that men very rarely understand the complexity of women so she learnt to compartmentalize her anger until it faded. But she also told me that she replaced the sugar in all of my daddy’s food with salt for a solid month when he pissed her off, so maybe her anger didn’t fade, she just picked her time to show it.
