As couples and families spend more time with one another, there is a more likely chance that they will get on each other's nerves at some point or another. It's not uncommon for the unity of the couple or family to fall apart from simple, and most time unnecessary, anger.

It's not always a single thing that is upsetting you, or even the loved one you find yourself taking it out on. Many times it's because the couple or family don't know how to properly express that anger or disruption, and over time that causes them to lash out or explode at just the wrong time.

Why Use Anger Management for Families
One of the leading causes of anger is trained anger. This may sound strange but people are taught to be angry from a very early age. Anger often starts as a child taught from parents that are also angry. Over time the child will learn that it's okay to treat other people with anger. When a family has anger management issues and does nothing about it, it will teach the children that the anger is a normal part of life. When they see it between two people, such as their mother and father, they will begin to think that such anger is actually a normal part of having a healthy relationship.

Neither of that is true and all measures should be taken to ensure that your children don't get the idea that anger and constant arguing is normal. Anger management classes will show the family, including the children, the proper techniques to express and release their anger in a productive way.

Without this, the entire family may just fall deeper into a hole of anger that will eventually pour into their social lives and the children's school life. The result of that continuing fall into anger for the parents may lead to divorce or even abuse. That very anger at home may even lead the child to run away, being afraid of coming home to it all.

If a divorce is the result of the anger, it may even be an issue in the divorce proceedings. If, and when, it comes out in court that the couple argued insistently and the children showed effects of it in school and in other social activities, then the judge may require both parents to take anger management as well as parent classes.

Why Use Anger Management for Couples
Anger management online can also be a great tool for couples as well as families. Just because there aren't any children in the house doesn't mean the people around you aren't being affected by your constant arguments. The time for anger management classes come when you notice your friends starting to fade away.

You may notice them leaving when you get into a small spat, or just not being around period just to get away from the drama and anger that is around the two of you as a couple. People get tired of being around others that can't get along or at least know how to express themselves openly and honestly without a new fight breaking out.

If you don't want to chase away your friends, your girlfriend or boyfriend, or even teach your kids that treating people with anger is okay, then you should enroll yourself and significant others into an anger management class before you lose more than you ever thought possible to simple anger and frustration.

Author's Bio: 

Ari Novick, Ph.D. is Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a certified anger management provider for both adults and adolescents. Dr. Novick is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology.

He is Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a certified anger management provider for both adults and adolescents.

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Dr. Ari Novick is a psychotherapist who provides world class Anger Management Classes Online.