Usually when I get angry, I try to analyze my feelings afterwards. I try to determine why I felt that way, what triggered it, to see if there are some underlyin

Usually when I get angry, I try to analyze my feelings afterwards. I try to determine why I felt that way, what triggered it, to see if there are some underlying reasons. Sometimes there might be some insecurities or other not-so-good reasons, in which case I have something to adjust. Other times it can be there was some good reason, I just failed to recognize or express it and things escalated instead. I'm not perfect, not infrequently I forget my earlier discoveries in the heat of the moment. But overall I do feel it's helpful to try to figure out where these emotions come from. I do this a lot when I get in a fight with my SO. Being a guy I quickly get over the emotional peak, and we can sit down and figure out what went wrong. For example, after moving together me and my SO got in a fight over not answering her phone if she wasn't at home when I got home from work. After calming down some and talking, we found out both sides had good reasons to get upset, but also good reasons for acting like we did. I got upset because I was the one planning and shopping for dinner, and not knowing if we'd be two or just me made that very difficult. She got upset because she felt having to answer the phone immediately or tell me where she went all the time was very controlling. Once the underlying factors had been brought to light we found common ground easily. I just needed to know if she'd be home for dinner so she'd tell me that in advance, and I wouldn't get upset if I called and she didn't answer the phone immediately.