And you don’t much care for your Mother nor spouse since your response is to cower.
To each his or her own, I suppose.
I’ll put this as politely as I can. Only a simpleton or deranged person offers such wild, exaggerated extremes as the only two viable responses to an insult. For example, the leaders of North Korea threatens all sorts of nuclear holocaust on the likes of Sony Pictures for creating a silly film lampooning their regime. Jihadis threaten beheading for unflattering cartoons.
Now, you don’t really want people to think you’re in the same nutty group do you?