...to ask if you have ever broken anything in anger?

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Prompted by another thread.

I once smashed nearly every plate in the house because yet again MIL had told me she was coming to visit even though I had said no it wasn't convenient. I had this strange reasoning that if I smashed all the plates she couldn't come because she'd have nothing to eat off.

In my defence I had just had my second mc and although MIL didn't know, she had spouted off about how the daughter of one of her friends must be "infertile" because she had mc.

DH had to hold me down before I started on the cups. And bless him, he cleared up every last shard. He also told MIL not to come and we went away for the weekend (to somewhere with plates!)

A mug,phone,glasses ,punched a few walls and lampposts. I was an angry,broken sod.
Since with DP i only threw a glass one,unwitnessed.

I once booted a hole in my brother's bedroom door, when we were both teenagers. He wouldn't unbolt it and let me in to thump him, so I think it was justified.

Shortly after we got married we had a huge row and I threw a china cup which I hated but had been a wedding gift. The bastard thing bounced!
After that I decided that throwing things caused more frustration than it relieved.

Lots of things Several supposedly wireless mice which suddenly refuse to communicate with the PC when I'm trying to do something have found themselves hurled at a wall. Worst incident was the clothes airer when baby was crying (again), and baby clothes kept falling off the airer due to my rush to get them hung up. I kicked the thing, denting it slightly, but causing my toenail to eventually all off such that I spent the whole summer with no nail as a reminder of my stupidity. I would like to say I've learned my lesson...

Oh, and as teens, my brother once pushed my head through a glass door panel during a heated debate... So, technically, I broke it, although he provided the muscle. We get on much better now.

Mobile phone with a club hammer.

I sort of broke a cooker once. I was in a foul mood after an incident with my ex and then immediately after a row with my (so say) best friend. I slammed the cooker door so hard the outer glass panel shattered everywhere.
More recently I broke my foot wen I kicked the front door after my phyco neighbour was screaming some very nasty stuff in front of our other neighbours.
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Too many times when I was younger .

Phones, plates, cups, photo frames, holes in doors - in my defence I had a bit of a chaotic life and it was always when I was on my own, never properly lost it in front of anyone.

I knew someone who took an axe to a cooker.

These are so funny 😂 I do recall when I was about 5/6 my mum telling me I couldn’t have kinder egg so the red mist took over I stared her straight in the eyes and without any remorse I crushed that kinder egg into dust as if to say ‘well mother if I can’t have it no one can’ - she then proceeded to pay for the smashed egg and put it straight in the bin.

As a teenager I smashed a few things during arguments with my Dad. I had a lot of anger issues as does he. I once went to throw a tin of food during an argument with DH but stopped myself. It was a real low point for me and I saw the GP for help the next day.

"causing my toenail to eventually all off such that I spent the whole summer with no nail as a reminder of my stupidity."

I once danced all evening in new, unworn in shoes. Both my big toenails turned purple and dropped off a few days later. I had to glue fake ones on all summer. Twas rather gross.

i smashed my TV & DPs phone when i discovered his cheating ways

I've ripped paper up, but not in front of other people. Excruciatingly, when I get really, really angry I tend to cry. Not good.

I've been known to literally bang my head off hard surfaces when very upset, but that's pretty rare.

My DSis wrote a hate message with black permanent marker onto a big wooden beam in her ex’s flat who she was living with at the time, after she found out the bastard had been cheating on her.

Lots of times

A vase the ex had bought me years earlier. I’d never really liked it (think his mother had chosen it tbh which made it worse!). I was peeling the spuds a few weeks after he’d left me for ow and I got angry - really angry about the situation, saw the vase that I no longer needed to give house room to, took it outside and smashed it to smithereens with a monkey wrench.

Still don’t regret it.

Once, when I was 18 (about 35 years ago) I was put out about something or other, and had somehow got hold of this ridiculous idea that breaking things when you were cross was kind of cool and made you a Special Very Sensitive Person. I threw a mug (which was already chipped) on the floor. It broke, and then I picked the bits up and put them in the bin and thought, well, that was a bit pathetic. Never done it since.

A few months ago, while pregnant and during a 'discussion' with DH about our kitchen renovation, I was so frustrated that I snapped the pen I was holding in half. A great arc of black ink sprayed up the bedroom wall and ceiling, as well as over a sofa and piles of clothes. The marks are still on the wall as a reminder of my lack of control (and because we're too lazy to repaint).

My neighbour punched his couch in anger, got a wooden bit and not a soft bit, and broke his hand! Had to have it set with all these little screws to turn every day that sort of stuck out and through the dressing. He was mortified telling me when I asked him what he’d done!

notsooriginal actually weeping here

A few internal doors in anger 🙈

Not since I left school. I used to go up to an attic room and hurl tiles down to the roof of a courtyard five storeys below. Was most satisfying but also a sign I was pretty screwed up. Probably better than self-harming, anorexia or drink and drugs though.

Very interesting. Because I have read a thread on here before claiming that smashing household items, regardless of the provocation, is unacceptable domestic abuse. Though that was done by a male teenager. How strange nobody is saying that here? I remember Lweji and AnyFucker being particularly passionate about it.

It was one case.

Hmm.

Are we endorsing female abuse again?