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I'm over my incident Tuesday night. I have decided that you are right. I'm going to have to tougen up. There are things from my past that can affect me today if the conditions are right (Those conditons have to remind me of the fear I felt of my father) then I forget that jerks are jerks and people can be idiots and I don't have to put up with that... and I'm three again, terrified for my life... and frozen with fear. Does that make sense?

perfectly... my father was a miserable excuse of a man, verbally and physically rough on me... I finally had enuff when I was fourteen... decided I wasn't going to be intimidated by anyone or anything... it wasn't easy... my sisters still tiptoe around him... I don't... when he cops an attitude I put him in his place... once while my parents were visiting, he went on a tirade about missus g'nad... I told him he was talkin' bout the woman I married, and committed before God to love and honor, so he could either shut his trap, or I'd shut it for him, then he could leave and come back when he could be civil... he ain't said a bad word about her since... btw, he's a much better grandpa than he is a father...